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Obama backs U.S. return to math, science, tech

Computerworld - WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama said today that more has to be done to encourage students to take up in math, science and technology disciplines, while indirectly warning of the global competition for highly skilled jobs. Obama is ...

From PATRICK THIBODEAU, ComputerWorld,  23 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  White House

Is federal stimulus money being used for IT hardware, not hiring?

Computerworld - WASHINGTON -- As part of the economic recovery plan passed by Congress and signed into law earlier this year by President Obama, government agencies, private companies and non-profits are required to report the number of jobs created or ...

From PATRICK THIBODEAU, ComputerWorld,  23 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  U.S. Congress,  Oracle,  Social Security Administration,  IBM

New H-1B hiring bill takes aim at tech firms

Lawmakers may be setting the stage for the fight over broader immigration reform The two lawmakers who successfully added H-1B hiring restrictions to the financial bailout bill earlier this year have introduced legislation that would bar any firm that ...

From PATRICK THIBODEAU, NetworkWorld,  20 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Bernie Sanders,  U.S. Congress,  U.S. Senate,  Dick Durbin,  Jeff Flake

Tech workers take H-1B case to Supreme Court

Computerworld - After losing two lower court decisions, a group of tech workers are turning to the U.S. Supreme Court in their fight against a federal decision that extended foreign student visas from one year to 29 months. The U.S. District Court in ...

From PATRICK THIBODEAU, ComputerWorld,  18 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Supreme Court of the United States,  U.S. Department of Homeland Security,  George W. Bush,  Gartner, Inc.

Convey and its VC backers bet on hybrid servers

PORTLAND, Ore. - High tech startup companies today are most likely to be software application vendors or social networking sites. One wouldn't expect a new hardware vendor to attract significant venture capital. This Richardson, Texas-based company ...

From PATRICK THIBODEAU, NetworkWorld,  18 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Intel

Feds plan 25,000 on-site H-1B inspections

Immigration Services to take a more aggressive stance on H-1B visa enforcement U.S. immigration officials are taking H-1B enforcement from the desk to the field with a plan to conduct 25,000 on-site inspections of companies hiring foreign workers over ...

From PATRICK THIBODEAU, NetworkWorld,  18 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  Gartner, Inc.,  BMC Software, Inc.

Supercomputers with 100 million cores coming by 2018

The push is on to build exascale systems that can solve the planet's biggest problems There is a race to make supercomputers as powerful as possible to solve some of the world's most important problems, including climate change, the need for ultra-long- ...

From PATRICK THIBODEAU, NetworkWorld,  16 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Jaguar,  IBM,  Los Alamos National Laboratory,  Energy Department,  Gartner, Inc.

Hard Times Aren't Slowing GM's New CIO

Terry Kline likes Windows 7, the iPhone, PCs stored on USB drives, and cloud computing services. And Kline's preferences matter -- a lot. As the new CIO at General Motors Corp., he oversees the technology budget of a company that's one of the world's ...

From PATRICK THIBODEAU, NetworkWorld,  16 Nov 2009

Related Topics: General Motors,  Apple, Inc.,  Gartner, Inc.

Analysis: Intel, AMD end a bitter business and technical battle

Computerworld - The settlement reached today by Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) and Intel may not simply resolve some of the business issues the two companies have had; it might even encourage them to cooperate on some shared technical issues, say ...

From PATRICK THIBODEAU, ComputerWorld,  12 Nov 2009

Related Topics: AMD,  Intel,  Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.,  Gartner, Inc.

Update: HP agrees to buy 3Com for $2.7B

Computerworld - Hewlett-Packard Co. today agreed to acquire 3Com Corp., for $2.7 billion, part of an effort to turn itself into a one-stop shop for corporate customers. The deal, announced after the close of markets today, gives HP a $1.3 billion ...

From PATRICK THIBODEAU, ComputerWorld,  11 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Charles King,  Hewlett-Packard,  Robert Metcalfe,  Cisco Systems, Inc.,  Electronic Data Systems

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