Stocks surge on jobs data, Cisco forecast

NEW YORK — A bright forecast from Cisco Systems and upbeat economic news sent stocks soaring Thursday and propelled the Dow Jones industrials back above 10,000. The rally, coming a day before the government's October employment report, showed that investors are regaining their optimism about an economic recovery.

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Man wanted in Europe found working at Neb. prison

LINCOLN, Neb. — A simple Google search of Michal Preclik's name turns up an Interpol wanted poster from his native Czech Republic. So where was he arrested? In Nebraska's maximum-security prison, where he was not an inmate, but a guard.

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WASHINGTON - With the hiring of foreign talent facing heightened scrutiny and the threat of greater restrictions in the US, Microsoft Corp has filed substantially fewer applications for H-1B visas coveted by Indian techies for next year.

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WASHINGTON - Four Indian IT outsourcers - Infosys Technologies, Wipro Technologies, Satyam Computer Services and Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) - dominate the list of companies who won H-1B visas in 2008. The four together used more than 10,000 of the visas for skilled professional limited to 65,000 foreign-educated workers per year, according to the US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS).

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WASHINGTON - Four Indian IT outsourcers - Infosys Technologies, Wipro Technologies, Satyam Computer Services and Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) - dominate the list of companies winning H-1B visas in 2008.

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WASHINGTON - Influential political scientist and former Harvard professor Samuel Phillips Huntington has died aged 81, the university reported on its website.

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The Programmers Guild, an IT worker interest group, has filed 300 discrimination complaints this year against companies alleged to have posted "H-1B visa holders only" ads on job boards.

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Texas will enlist web users in its fight against illegal mexican immigration by offering live surveillance footage of the Mexican border on the internet. The plan will allow web users worldwide to watch Texas' border with Mexico and phone the authorities if they spot any apparently illegal crossings.

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Over the last few weeks, it's become obvious that America's immigrant community is seriously out of touch with the American cultural mainstream.

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A web based pilot program is currently underway to rapidly determine the eligibility of a worker to work legally in US.

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