1. Where, Oh Where, Do the H1B Visas Go?
Top Five recipients of H1B visas account for 18% of all visas allocated under the HB1 program. The question is: Why is it that year after year foreign headquartered companies top this list?
By Gary Beach
User Comments
“The H-1B visa is the first step in offshoring entire departments to India. This program needs to be scrapped.”
“Perhaps, we hate the H1B guys because they look different, and talk different. There is another word to describe this.”
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2. Will Windows 7 Pump Life into a Dying PC Market?
Whether Windows 7 ships this year or the next, it will enter a PC market on life support.
By Shane O’Neill
User Comments
“I am convinced that Microsoft could have won practically all cases in the court in the past if Microsoft were willing to make sacrifices on profits in order to provide pleasant user experiences without any freezes, hangups, and autistic-like performances commonly witnessed in millions of PC around the world.”
“Today my PC was virtually dragging its balls all day until I downloaded a PDF statement from my online broker. Then my PC is all of sudden unshackled and fast.”
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3. RIM: We Don’t Record ANY Staff BlackBerry Phone Calls
BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion (RIM) has responded to reports that it records all of its employees’ BlackBerry messaging and phone transmissions, saying such claims are false and that it does not log and retain any of its staffers’ voice communications.
By Al Sacco
User Comments
“There is a great deal to be learned from the NSA that arguably has had the ability to listen to just about everything all the time: it’s too much information.”
“If a company decides that such measures are necessary–or it’s forced into them for legal/compliance reasons–that company needs to find a suitable way to archive/manage all that data. Period.”
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4. Salesforce.com Smells Blood, Hunts Bigger CRM Prey: Enterprise Cloud Customers
Salesforce.com is attempting to move away from being known simply as a SaaS CRM vendor for small and midsize companies. Instead, executives and marketing collateral now refer to it as “the enterprise cloud-computing company.”
By Thomas Wailgum
User Comments
“The SaaS model makes sense to me. Who would want to build and operate a Sales Force Automation application when I can buy one off the shelf?”
“Given Salesforce’s inability to establish a partner channel and commercials to support a move away from SaaS CRM, Salesforce.com is still only a CRM provider.”
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5. Firing an Employee Over Facebook Quip Could Backfire
The ongoing philosophical question about how to address employee behavior and information-sharing on social networks resurfaced with news that a part-time employee for the Philadelphia Eagles found himself out of a job after he lamented the team’s failure to sign seven-time Pro Bowl safety Brian Dawkins.
By C.G. Lynch
User Comments
“Instantaneous communications (via FB and Twitter) as well as an obsessive need to draw attention to oneself are conspiring to turn what once would have been considered an ‘oft-handed’ remark between two people in an office hallway into an embarrassing CLM (career limiting move) witnessed by billions.”
“I’m keeping a list of all the idiots who are wasting time at work and replying to this article … then I’m taking the list right to their HR to free up some jobs for those of us who work!”
