Kevin Fogarty

The agency responsible for granting H-1B visa applications plans to tighten up its procedures for vetting and approving the applications in the wake of a report indicating as many as 20 percent of the applications may be fraudulent or technically flawed. The U.S. Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services, which is responsible for approving and […]

The Department of Homeland Security has reissued a rule defining the way employers should respond to employees whose Social Security numbers don’t match what the government thinks they should be. The rule is less likely to affect workers or employers participating in the heavily administered H-1B visa program than it is other visa programs, or […]

Pfizer is taking flak for what detractors charge is a plan to use U.S. workers to train the foreign contractors who will replace them during a years-long outsourcing project. Contractors in the company’s Groton and New London, Conn., research and development facilities-many of whom are either former full-time staffers or replaced Connecticut-based staff-are complaining that […]

Pfizer is taking flak for what detractors charge is a plan to use U.S. workers to train the foreign contractors that will replace them during a years-long outsourcing project. Contractors in the company’s Groton and New London, Conn., R&D facilities-many of whom are either former full-time staffers or replaced Connecticut-based staff-are complaining that foreign workers […]

The U.S Department of Labor cracked down on an application development company in New Jersey, ordering it to pay $271,000 in back wages to employees and saying the company had scammed the H-1B visa application process and cheated its employees. A 10-month investigation by the DOL found Globaltek had hired foreign workers, mostly from South […]

The Department of Homeland Security suspects error or flat-out fraud in as many as 20 percent of H-1B visa applications filed by U.S. employers seeking foreign workers. An audit of H-1B visa applications by the Department of Homeland Security’s USCIS (U.S. Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services) division found H-1B visa applications filed by U.S. […]

AOL has announced the second major initiative in a month designed to help it evolve from its business model as a dial-up ISP into an advertising company competing with Google, Yahoo and other online heavyweights. The most recent twist is the announcement April 9 that AOL’s display advertising division, Advertising.com, would offer a tool designed […]

E-mail management tools come in two primary flavors: the ruthlessly efficient and the cordially helpful. Using and defending the ruthlessly efficient, you will find colleagues who are rigorously organized and efficient, who Get Things Done not so much as a consequence of employment, but almost as a way to spiritual fulfillment. Getting Things Done is […]

Data center managers are on the hot seat lately. They not only have to cram in more servers per square inch than they ever wanted or thought theyd need, they also have to figure out how to do it without sending the electricity bill through the roof. And theyre not entirely sure how to do […]

The Environmental Protection Agency is preparing to release a new measurement specification designed to give customers a standard way to gauge the power consumption of the servers in their data centers. Such metrics already exist for desktop computers and laptops, under the EPAs Energy Star program. Measuring server performance is harder, however, because servers rarely […]