We're not modeling climate tipping points, said DOE's Chu
U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu says that climate models that don't include the impact of "tipping points," aren't measuring all the risks posed by climate change. What is a tipping point? In climate change it is the point that will...
As oceans rise, IT vendors respond
NASA reported this week that the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets are losing mass at an accelerating pace. This latest study says the oceans may rise a foot in the next four decades, and that's just the start as the ice sheets...
Seven facts about Obama's Silicon Valley dinner
President Barack Obama held a dinner this week with a number of Silicon Valley tech executives. Here are some facts about the invites and non-invites. Why was Obama sitting next to Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg?Obama was...
Obama makes H-1B, Green Card reform a priority
In his State of the Union, President Barack Obama may have given a green light to increasing H-1B visas and employment-based Green Cards. Obama's point was direct. "Others come here from abroad to study in our colleges and...
A university's troubling warning about WikiLeaks
The White House has warned federal employees not to view the WikiLeaks cables at work. Among those complying is the Library of Congress, which is blocking access to WikiLeaks across its computers systems, "including those for use by...
Basic skills, not enterprise Java, in Sri Lanka
The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), which is helping to fund development of Sri Lanka's offshore outsourcing industry, says it made a mistake in announcing that it would provide training on enterprise Java as part...
Is Bill Gates delivering a new Einstein letter?
On Aug. 2, 1939, Albert Einstein wrote a letter to F.D. Roosevelt, President of the United States, outlining the potential of uranium to create a chain reaction and of Germanys interest in this raw material. His letter was...
What the geeks understand about the BP oil spill
The BP oil spill disaster may be remembered as the start of the new age of catastrophe, our World War One. If corporations, the government and responsible people can't control the engineering outcomes involved in deep water drilling,...
India IT firms surpass U.S. in revealing workforce makeup
It's too bad that U.S. IT tech firms aren't as open as some India IT offshore outsourcing operations in disclosing details about their workforces. Oh, the things we could learn about globalization if U.S. firms weren't so secretive...
Why we need health care reform
The White House argued last week that small businesses stand to gain substantially from health reform because many of these firms do not provide health insurance to their employees.Only 46% of the companies with 3 to 9 employees...
If you want a job, build an iPad App
Tech spending is getting a lot of credit for the 5.7% jump in Gross Domestic Product for the fourth quarter, but this improvement isnt showing up in IT hiring. One of the more interesting bits of jobs data out this week was offered...
U.S. pandemic options include crippling home modems
The U.S. has a dark box of options for keeping Internet traffic flowing during a pandemic, including restricting the bandwidth capability of home modems.The feds have already shown their willingness to impose their power on carriers...
The new must-have gadget is a house
A visit to the Solar Decathlon on the National Mall this week has renewed my faith in the future. Part of this feeling comes from the inventive and eye-opening use of technology in building solar houses, but most of it is due to the...
ICANN's new gTLD plan is all about money
ICANN is about to radically transform the Internet into a corporate theme park with its new gTLD plan. It believes it is operating on some altruistic, community-driven open process and refuses to recognize what it is becoming: A big...
Google Chrome OS: The wolf is now out of the forest
In reading Google's blog post announcing its Chrome Operating System, I kept coming back to this line: "It's our attempt to re-think what the operating system should be." It is modest and restrained, "an attempt," writes Google, and...
H-1B legislation alarms India's government
A top Indian official, as well the country's major IT industry group, reacted harshly to H-1B legislation introduced last week by U.S. Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), calling it protectionism and for good...
Five reasons why the H-1B cap will be increased, revised
President Barack Obama has signaled interest in taking up comprehensive immigration reform. And any push for immigration reform is almost certain to include an increase in the H-1B cap. One year ago, I outlined five reasons why the...
The H-1B visa as a job replacement tool
If Karl Marx were writing the Communist Manifesto today he would have included a chapter about offshore outsourcing. It is one thing to be laid off as part of the constant revolutionizing of production, but it is something else to...
True story: How a mugging victim used Twitter to get help
I am going to begin this story the way it unfolded, with a Tweet. Sunday night, around 11 p.m., this arrived on a Twitter account I use to stay in touch with people locally. @heathermg: Is anyone awake out there? I just got mugged...
The coming collapse of IT jobs and wages
When a homeowner cuts the price of a house dramatically, real estate analysts have a word for it: capitulation, a surrendering to market forces. Something similar is arriving for IT workers.A bellwether is IBM. Its workforce in the...
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