Rencently, US senate has approved doubling the H1B visas to skilled workers from other countries like India, China, and Pakistan. With this, the cap has raised to 1,15,000 per year. It has also been proposed to increase the cap by 15-20% each year, if the full quota is reached on the previous year. The number of H1B visas that exist now are 65000 per year.
The increase in H1Bs is a U-turn by the American law makers, since only a few years back they had reduced the number of H1Bs from around 1,20,000 per year to 65000 due to heavy political criticism, and widespread job losses.
It is for each country to determine if they need to allow skilled workers for meeting local demand for such workers. A consistant policy would benefit both the industry, and the H1B seekers. While H1B seekers are normally the cream of the lot, it is obvious that acceptor country would benefit from their services, while the donor country loses in the way of braindrain of young, productive, educated and highly skilled people.

WiMAX(Worldwide Interoperability of Microwave Access) for broadband wireless Internet access is being discussed widely these days. WiMAX is expected to replace other forms of wireless Internet access in course of time. Another wireless technique widely used for Internet wireless access is Wi-Fi. The primary distinction is that WiMAX has a long range whereas Wi-Fi has a shorter range. A detailed discussion on WiMAX and Wi-Fi is available at tutorials web.

Flash memory devices are being widely used these days. The capacity of Flash memory is increasing tremendously, and is expected to compete with traditional computer hard disks in the near future. A tutorial is available on Flash memory at tutorialsweb.com, the contents of which are given below:

1. Technical Overview of Flash Memory

1.1 Operation Principles
1.2 Structure and Operation of Flash Memory

2. Flash Memory History

3. Limitation of Flash Memory

4. Low-level access
4.1 NOR memories
4.2 NAND memories
4.3 Difference between NOR and NAND memories

5. Flash file systems

6. Capacity of Flash memories

7. Data Protection

8. Security

9. Types of Flash Memories

9.1 Mobile device memory
9.2 Compact flash memory
9.3 USB Flash drives

10. Hard disk drives vs. Flash drives

11. Applications of Flash Memory

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US has passed a legislation offering millions of dollars in prizes to those who contribute by way of innovation to hydrogen fuel technology. The prizes range from 1 million to 10 millions and offered only to US based individuals and organizations. Though Hydrogen fuel cell based cars are produced, they are very expensive and found to be practically not a viable alternative to the present-day cars. This is apart from the billions of dollars that US would be spending on its own (state sponsored/owned) Hydrogen fuel research activities. Any US person, who invents the break-through technology for Hydrogen fuel would be given a 10million dollar prize. It is highly recommended that other countries like India take the lead from US and establish similar incentives for researchers of alternative fuel technology.

Source:http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/hydrogen_prize

The news of US and other countries seeking UN sactions on Iran has been around for quite some time. The reason being that Iran is trying to manufacture weapons of mass destruction (nuclear weapons). US further says that it reserves the right to use force to ensure that Iran will not have any nuclear weapons. The question is: Will the world agree with what US says this time? Almost every nation had listened when President Bush said that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. This was the primary reason for using force against Iraq (or invading Iraq). But after several years of war, the international community is yet to find any weapon s of mass destruction. Nuclear material has a strategic importance as it could be used both as fuel (to produce electricity) and an atomic bomb. Though the reasons for concern are genuine, it is not justifiable to use force or punitive sanctions against the will of the people of a nation. It is important that a diplomatic and technologically viable solution is found for resolving the issues. This will not only lessen the tensions prevailing in the middle east, but also help build a peaceful world...by vijay.