Posted by: rpawar
on Aug 06, 2010
The US Senate today approved a substantial increase in application fees for H1B and L1 visas, to fund a $ 600 million emergency package to improve security along the porous Mexican border.
This $2,000 increase will be be added to the existing $320 H-1B filing fee. There are a number of other add-on fees as well: a $500 anti fraud fee that is required for any new H-1B and L-1 visa user, and a fee for training U.S. workers that scales from $750 to $1,500, depending on the size of the company applying for a visa.
Posted by: rpawar
on May 05, 2010
There was a blog posted in apache website on April 1, 2010 with same title. Blog literally made many techies sweating over possible future of hundreds of ASF projects. There were 80 comments on that blog. Of course many of the reader took it as april fool prank but still many became april fool..
Some of these interesting comments are:
Posted by: rpawar
on Feb 19, 2010
NetWitness, the world leader in advanced persistent threat detection and real-time network forensics, announced on February 18, 2010 in HERNDON , VA, USA that its analysts have discovered a dangerous new ZeuS botnet affecting 75,000 systems in 2,500 organizations around the world.
The newly-discovered infestation, dubbed the "Kneber botnet" after the username linking the infected systems worldwide, gathers login credentials to online financial systems, Facebook, Yahoo, Hotmail and other social network credentials and email systems from infested computers and reports the information to miscreants who can use it to break into accounts, steal corporate and government information, and replicate personal, online and financial identities.
Posted by: rpawar
on Jan 28, 2010
Oracle Corporation (NASDAQ: ORCL) announced on January 27, 2010 that it had completed its acquisition of Sun Microsystems, Inc. $7.4 billion deal was finally approved by European Union last week. Deal was already approved by U.S. Department of Justice in August, 2009.
This deal give Oracle ownership of popular Java Programming Language, which run on more than a billion devices, Solaris Operating System, Open Source MySQL Database and SPARC processors.
Posted by: rpawar
on Jan 25, 2010
Google Translate has been out for quite a long time. I just gave it a try to see how it works.
If you have not yet heard about it then it can be found at http://translate.google.com/
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