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Bills to expand H1-B visas are stacking up like cordwood in Congress. A favorite among the technology industry, H1-B visas allow U.S. companies to sponsor foreign born U.S. graduates in science, engineering and math for up to six years of U.S. employment. In the wake of last week’s announcement that the 2008 allotment of 85,000 […]

Inmate #35211-086 will, after all, testify Thursday morning before the U.S. Senate Finance Committee on his criminal career as an identity thief who used online auctions to hijack peoples’ identities for financial gain. Earlier this week, the Department of Justice (DoJ) attempted to quash a summons for notorious scam artist Evangelos Dimitrios Soukas’ appearance. Soukas, […]

A U.S. federal appeals court today set a hearing date of April 24 for Vonage’s appeal of a pending injunction barring the Internet telephony company from signing up new customers. Vonage contends the injunction would amount to a “bullet to the head” for the struggling VoIP provider. The injunction would be effective while Vonage appeals […]

Sun Microsystems and Unisys’ civil lawsuit against Hynix and other dynamic random access memory (DRAM) chipmakers is dead. At least for now. DRAM, the most commonly used semiconductor memory product, is used in PCs, laptops, workstations, servers, printers, PDAs, mobile phones, digital cameras, TVs, digital set top boxes and digital music players. The companies claim […]

The United States is turning to the World Trade Organization (WTO) to settle two trade disputes with China involving intellectual property (IP) rights. China tops the U.S.’s Priority Watch List for IP theft. The first case involves China’s laws for protecting and enforcing the country’s copyright laws. The other case cites China’s trade barriers to […]

UPDATED: ALEXANDRIA, Va. – Vonage is barred from signing up new customers during its appeal of a March 8 jury decision that the Internet telephone company infringed on three Verizon patents. U.S. District Judge Claude Hilton, who issued a permanent injunction against Vonage from using the infringed Verizon technology two weeks ago pending Vonage’s full […]

Talk about woo-hoo, woo-hoo-hoo. Vonage, the nation’s largest Voice over IP (VoIP) provider, finds out today if it must shut down service to its 2.2 million customers. In an Alexandria, VA. courtroom showdown, U.S. District Judge Claude Hilton will decide if he will sign a permanent injunction prohibiting Vonage from connecting its Internet-based calls to […]

Vonage can continue to sign up new customers for at least another week under a temporary reprieve granted late Friday afternoon by a U.S. Court of Appeals. The stay reverses a lower court decision earlier in the day that Vonage attorneys said amounted to a “bullet to the head.” Friday morning, U.S. District Judge Claude […]

Taxpayers won’t be the only ones explaining themselves to the government next week. So will the tax collectors. U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) said Wednesday he plans to hold the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) accountable for its almost 500 missing or stolen laptops over the last three years during a Senate Finance Committee hearing next […]

Cell phone use for American fliers is out for the foreseeable future, but onboard broadband connections are scheduled to debut as early as next year, according to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). In a unanimous ruling issued Tuesday, the FCC said it is terminating its airline cell phone use proceeding, launched in 2004, stating the […]

One day after the opening of the H1-B visa program process, the 2008 allotment of 85,000 H1-B visas is already gone. Last year it took a month. Chris Bentley, a spokesman for the U.S. Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), said the agency received more than 150,000 applications for the program, which allows U.S. […]

Guidance Software’s settlement with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) became official today, almost five months after the Pasadena, Calif.-based computer forensics specialist admitted it did not adequately protect customer data. Victimized by a December 2005 data breach and theft of 4,000 credit card numbers, Guidance agreed to implement a comprehensive information security program, including independent, […]