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After a slow start in demand for this year’s H-1B visas, U.S. employers are again gobbling up the controversial work visas. With a surge in demand over the last two months, the total number of H-1B visa petitions granted so far this year is 58,900. The government caps the visas are 65,000 per year.
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U.S. employers are again on the hunt for H-1B visas, with demand for the controversial temporary
work visas coveted by technology companies rising sharply over the last
two months. According to the most recent numbers issued by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service, the late rush has push…

The partnership between AMD and SiSoftware will enable OEMs, ISVs and developers to measure the performance of systems based on the OpenCL framework, which enables mainstream applications to run in GPU-CPU or GPU-only environments. Both AMD and Nvidia are pushing graphics chips for mainstream computing workloads. Intel, while bringing greater graphics capabilities to its CPUs, said that only a small slice of HPC workloads need GPU computing.
– Advanced Micro Devices is teaming up with SiSoftware to create a way for developers and businesses to measure the performance of systems using the OpenCL standard.
AMD and Nvidia have been driving graphics processors into more mainstream computing environments, and officials with both vendors have …

News Analysis: Although there is more litigation in its future, it seems all too obvious now that Apple has overwhelmingly won its legal battle with Psystar. But there are several interesting things to be gleaned from that court case that tells us quite a bit about Apple and its strategies. It’s quite clear Apple will never deviate from its policy of not licensing the Mac OS to other PC makers. Furthermore it would be foolhardy for any new company to emulate Psystar’s business model of trying to sell Mac OS machines behind Apple’s back.
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The legal battle over whether Psystar can sell Mac
OS X-based computers is quickly coming to a close. In a not-so-surprising development on
Wednesday, Psystar stopped offering its computers on its Website. The decision to take the computers down was
the result of a crippling loss in a…