Archive for May, 2006
H1B Quota for year 2007 : 39,445 applications by 05/15
Saturday, May 20, 2006 12:32 7 CommentsLink to USCIS Page                                                          http://www.uscis.gov/graphics/services/tempbenefits/cap.htm For fiscal year 2007, that starts from Oct 2006, USCIS has received 39,445 H1B applications and approved 6,465 cases by 15th May, 2006 update. That leaves 18755 applications before it reaches the cap for this year. So if anybody is planning to apply for a H1B, better hurry up. Update: The [...]
Mobile music is too expensive
Friday, May 19, 2006 9:17 No CommentsCellular Music Services Overpriced says Strategy Analytics http://www.mobiletechnews.com/info/2006/05/19/093256.html Kevin Nolan, Director, Advanced Wireless Laboratory, added, “Our research suggests that users are willing to pay a premium of around 35 percent for the convenience of downloading tracks to both their wireless devices and PCs – subject to reliable network performance. In our view, the current 100 [...]
FON: Revolutionary Community WIFI
Thursday, May 18, 2006 10:08 No Commentshttp://en.fon.com/Â : FON is the largest WiFi community in the World Join FON, share excess bandwidth at home and roam the world for free FON is a community based WIFI network, where each individual joins FON network shares their WIFI with other FON members. In return, members can use WIFI whereever FON network(members) is/are available. It [...]
Apple to embed camera in Monitor itself
Wednesday, May 17, 2006 9:57 No CommentsApple filed for a patent of an LCD Monitor that has microscopic image sensors embedded into it that can act as a high resolution camera. Link on Engadget : ” … Apple for an LCD display embedded with thousands of microscopic image sensors that would allow users to video-conference while looking straight into the “camera.” Data [...]
VOIP will burn PSTN Revenues
Tuesday, May 16, 2006 9:28 No CommentsA report by UK Firm Informa Telecoms & Media suggests PSTN operators loose $100B of their reveneue to VOIP services between 2005 and 2011. “After 2010, PSTN will no longer be the main revenue generator in developed countries,” report author Malik Saadi said in a statement. “There will be no justification for big operators to [...]

