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The intent of the comprehensive immigration bill's H-1B database is to improve the odds that a U.S. worker will be hired over a foreign one. But its effectiveness may depend on fuzzy terms such as "good faith" hiring, and enforcement. This is where the real legislative battle may be fought.

The unemployment rate for people at the heart of many tech innovations -- electrical engineers -- rose sharply in the first quarter of this year for reasons that aren't clear.

IBM's reported interest in selling parts of its x86 server business to Lenovo may bring major changes to the global market.

The U.S. Senate's comprehensive immigration bill would make major changes to the H-1B visa that are certain to upset some and possibly please others.

For some reason, Silicon Valley's titans are encouraging Mark Zuckerberg to lead the charge on immigration visas. It's an odd choice.

As IT workers with key skills grow scarce and the costs of upgrading data centers rise, many CIOs are replacing in-house ops with cloud-based services.

The unemployment rate for people at the heart of many tech innovations, electrical engineers, rose sharply in the first quarter of this year. The reasons for this spike aren't clear, but the IEEE-USA says the increase is alarming

At universities today, Cobol is mostly taught as an elective, and even then it's likely offered at less than one in four schools. There are strong opinions about whether that is the right direction.

The government's H-1B visa caps have already been reached, meaning a lottery will be needed to distribute visas, federal officials said late today.

The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services received roughly 50,000 'packages' with H-1B petitions on Monday, the first day of filing for the next fiscal year.

Pepco, a large utility that serves Washington DC and the surrounding area, is in the political bullseye. Its customers include many members of Congress so a security breach that hurts service would get noticed.

Virtualization, cloud services and SaaS is making it much easier to shift IT infrastructure operations to service providers, and that is exactly what many users are doing.