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October 18, 2007
 

Tech Insider

Technology & Science News, Product Reviews


NEWS  THIS WEEK'S TOP STORIES

The Great Tech Worker Divide

Is there really a labor shortage, or are tech companies lobbying Congress for more visas and green cards simply to avoid paying Americans better wages?

Inside: This Week in Technology
Hi Tech Watchers,

Are there too few tech employees or simply too many technology companies trying to get around increasing wages? Moira Herbst explores the contentious issue that has brought Bill Gates before congress and has incited the immigration debate in Silicon Valley. Check out her story "The Great Tech Worker Divide." Also, we take a look at whether the rally going into Google?s earnings may leave those who jump on board feeling sorry next week. And Louise Lee and Peter Burrows discuss Apple's less than shiny customer service.
--Catherine Holahan
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  TECH ANALYSIS
BEST OF THE MAGAZINE
A Bruise on Apple's Reputation
Is the company's stellar service keeping up with its hypergrowth? Some customers don't think so

  TECH INVESTING
INNOVATION
Gunning for Google
Recent redesigns at Yahoo!, Microsoft Live Search, and Ask.com are providing graphically rich alternatives to the minimalist search giant

TECHNOLOGY
Heard It Through the Newsvine
The lines between citizen and professional journalism are blurring, creating opportunities and risks for media outlets like MSNBC, which recently acquired user-generated news site Newsvine

TECHNOLOGY
The Next Software Acquisitions
Now that SAP has changed course and cut a deal to buy Business Objects, more strategic acquisitions in the sector are likely

TECHNOLOGY
Who Wants to Be a Facebook Millionaire?
J-Squared's twentysomething founders have turned down some heady numbers. But the widget makers face some tough investment-funding choices

TECHNOLOGY
Google's Orkut: A World of Ambition
Seizing on Orkut's momentum in Asia and Latin America, Google moves to revamp its social networking site and take aim at Facebook and MySpace

NEWS ANALYSIS
The 'Warrior' Within Jonathan Schwartz
A tough background, a college scholarship, and a near-death experience all went into making Sun's CEO the driven success he is today

  TECH INNOVATION
MEDIA
The Arab World Wants Its MTV
And U.S. media giant Viacom aims to deliver it, as well as Nickelodeon, Comedy Central, and more

TECHNOLOGY • From ZDNet Asia
Yahoo! Hosts 'Hack Day' in India
The one-day event attracted some 100 Web developers, who toiled over 24 hours to create new software using the company's application programming interfaces

  TECH SPECIAL REPORTS
BEST OF THE WEB
Scaling the Social Web
Move over, MySpace. Online players from media giant Viacom to auctioneer eBay are adding networking features for their users

TECHNOLOGY SPECIAL REPORT
Selling Computers to India
With growth slowing in China, computer makers hope Asia's other big market will pick up the slack

SPECIAL REPORT
The Power of Gaming
A recent report estimates that the video game market will increase to $48.9 billion in 2011. Our special report looks at some of the innovations sparking this growth

SPECIAL REPORT
The Future of Social Networking
A rising tide of companies are tapping Semantic Web technologies to unearth hard-to-find connections between disparate pieces of online data


CEO Guide to Green Computing
As a threat to operations and the bottom line, corporate computing's fast-growing power consumption is forcing companies to adopt green energy

VIRTUAL LIFE
The Coming Virtual Web
In the future, the Internet is almost certain to look more realistic, interactive, and social—a lot like a virtual world

CEO GUIDE TO TECHNOLOGY
Taming the World Wide Web
A rising tide of companies are tapping Semantic Web technologies to unearth hard-to-find connections between disparate pieces of online data

SPECIAL REPORT
Wireless World
Ultrafast networks and whizzy features are about to turn your cellphone into—well, your right arm

NEXT-GEN GAME CONSOLES
Game Definitely Not Over
On the eve of the launch of PS3 and Wii, stakes in the console tussle amid Sony, Nintendo, and Microsoft have never been higher

CEO GUIDE TO TECHNOLOGY
CEO Guide to Social Networks
Networking technology gives companies a new set of tools for recruiting and customer service

PREDICTION MARKETS
CEO Guide to Technology -- Prediction Markets
More corporations are setting up their own markets for economic forecasts, hoping to tap into the wisdom of employees

WEB SERVICES
The On-Demand Software Scrum
Oracle, Microsoft, and SAP are battling each other—and smaller players—to gain a bigger slice of a fast-growing pie

SPECIAL REPORT
Computer Security
Computer-based fraudsters are finding new ways to trick people—not technology—to get the information they seek

SPECIAL REPORT
Young Entrepreneurs of Tech
We surveyed dozens of the country's biggest venture capitalists to come up with a short list of the 11 young people that are shaking up tech

HEART HEALTH
Heart, Heal Thyself?
So far, stem cells have not delivered the results scientists hoped for. But excitement is still rising

SPECIAL REPORT
Open Source's New Frontiers
How free software startups are challenging industry giants

SPECIAL REPORT
Eight Tech Trends for 2006
Tech Special Report on living-room wars, social search, wireless' new world, Web moviemakers—and lots more

SPECIAL REPORT
Computing's Next Generation
For the first time in years, hardware startups are trying to break into the market. Their gambit: Inexpensive special-purpose machines

SPECIAL REPORT
TV Goes Broadband
Name any gizmo. Chances are it's gotten more sophisticated since you last looked

SPECIAL REPORT: YOUNG ENTREPRENEURS OF TECH
Tech's Young Turks Are Back
As Internet companies and the economy in general rebound, so has the college-age entrepreneur—but it's a tougher road today



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