Guess Who's Getting the Most Work Visas

March 6, 2008 - The controversy over visas for high-skilled workers from abroad looks like it's about to get even hotter. The program for what are known as H-1B visas was originally set up to allow companies in the U.S. to import the best and brightest in technology, engineering, and other fields when such workers are in short supply in America ... (read more)

10 Broken Technology Ideas -- and How to Fix Them

March 07, 2008 (Computerworld) - Sometimes a technology idea is too good to be true. A flexible keyboard, Internet voting and watching feature films on your smart phone are examples. Today, these concepts are still evolving, but they're broken right now. I'll tell you why and what could be done to fix them once and for all ... (read more)

Study Shows Perks, Not Pay is Key to Attracting Talented Workers

March 6th, 2008 - A key issue staring companies directly in the eye is the ability to acquire and retain highly qualified workers ... (read more)

Google Calendar Sync

March 5, 2008 - I've suffered major headaches trying to sync all my calendars. I used the Microsoft Outlook calendar on my desktop computer at home, but since I wanted to be able to access my schedule from anywhere, I also kept a copy of it on Google Calendar. When I traveled, I'd import my Google Calendar data into my laptop's Outlook calendar so I could access it offline. This was not only annoying to maintain, but also quite error-prone. If I made updates on any of the copies of my calendar, I had to make sure to make those same exact changes to the other copies, too ... (read more)

How to Think - Managing Brain Resources in an Age of Complexity

Tuesday, November 13, 2007 - When I applied for my faculty job at the MIT Media Lab, I had to write a teaching statement. One of the things I proposed was to teach a class called "How to Think," which would focus on how to be creative, thoughtful, and powerful in a world where problems are extremely complex, targets are continuously moving, and our brains often seem like nodes of enormous networks that constantly reconfigure ... (read more)

12 Top, Free Ways to Collaborate Online

February 28th, 2008 - Applications that make it easy to share and collaborate are often of much more use to web workers than they are to standard office workers. Especially if you work online with colleagues at disparate locations, some of the best collaboration tools you can choose are free. In this post, I’ll round up several examples that you can count on ... (read more)

How To Make a Million Before Turning 20

Tuesday, March 04, 2008 - While their peers were out making trouble, these young achievers were making bank... (read more)

Over 50 Percent of Companies Fire Workers for E-mail, Net Abuse

February 28, 2008 - Managers cite accessing porn, using offensive language in e-mail, and breaching confidentiality rules as grounds for firing, according to survey ... (read more)

Killer Military Robots Pose Latest Threat to Humanity

February 27, 2008 - A robotics expert at the University of Sheffield will today (27 February 2008) issue stark warnings over the threat posed to humanity by new robot weapons being developed by powers worldwide... (read more)