visas in comment and analysis
Tony Mather
CIO Profile In addition to managing a tech budget in excess of £100m per year and major IT-related programmes such as biometric visas, shared services and the Firecrest project to upgrade the FCO's entire IT infrastructure, Mather... [11 Jun 2008]
Dear silicon.com... HMRC search costs, Vista SP1 moans and fingerprints for visas…
Comment Biometric fingerprint checks for UK visas Reader Comments of the Week showcases how our users are responding to the latest tech news and views on the site. Greedy or justified? Police seek full costs of HMRC CD search [17 Jan 2008]
Editor's Blog: The meaning of innovation
Comment Aside from all the politics about offshoring or workers brought in on migrant visas, surely the real lesson is this: if you are going to go into tech or any other career made more competitive by globalisation, do so with... [02 Mar 2007]
Q&A: Dr Jim Goodnight, CEO, SAS
Comment silicon.com's managing editor Will Sturgeon met up with Dr Jim Goodnight, CEO of SAS - the world's largest privately-owned software company - to discuss his company's strong commitment to R&D, his thoughts about the best way to fill the... [30 Jun 2006]
Leader: The great IT skills debate
Leader In what can only be interpreted as confirmation of the belief that the UK lacks skilled workers for certain positions, the government earlier this week announced a new points-based systems for work permits and visas that... [10 Mar 2006]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Travelling ultra-light
Comment Make two copies of your driving licence, passport, visas and any other essential documents and place them in both bags. Written in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. Photographs taken in Boston. Revised in New York and... [27 Sep 2005]
Why US presidents can't keep their tech promises
Comment For its part, Kerry's campaign has published a white paper on offshoring, calling for selective tax cuts for corporations, requiring call centre workers to disclose their locations, curbing H1-B visas and ordering... [01 Nov 2004]
Leader: Will we really benefit from having ID cards?
Leader Others ask whether ID cards will become the next lucrative target for organised crime - creating a new market for forged cards to replace the old one for forged passports, visas and documentation. 'No! [06 Apr 2004]
The Bloor Perspective: Biometric choices, 3G+WLAN and EMC buying VMWare
Comment As part of its efforts to improve homeland security, the US is mandating that biometrics must be incorporated on the passports, visas or other identification documents being used by passengers entering or leaving the... [22 Dec 2003]
Thank you India
Comment When companies have 'offshored' in the past, and especially when they have used temporary work visas to hire IT pros from overseas, domestic workers have complained about 'cheap foreign labour'. And companies like Sun,... [21 Mar 2003]
Is there still an IT skills shortage?
Comment Forget arguments over green cards and fast-track visas. Forget received wisdom. Forget urgent training to keep this country ahead of the pack in the ebusiness revolution. Forget what you've been told for years. [28 Feb 2002]
Name the companies abusing fast track visa scheme
Comment The bone of contention which the PCG has seen fit to champion is the abuse of fast track visas to fill IT positions. It's been whispered in dark corridors for some time and now the Professional Contractors Group (PCG)... [14 Feb 2002]
Plugging the skills gap: A practical approach
Comment For example, in the UK, the processing of visas for skilled IT professionals from outside the EU has been speeded up. There will be a shortfall of 1.7 million IT professionals in Western Europe by the year 2003 - unless... [12 Sep 2000]
CIO wanted, no experience necessary: the IT skills shortage
Comment The reaction by contractors and recruitment agencies to the UK government's latest plans for "fast track" visas highlights the tricky nature of importing skills. Albeit with a vested interest, they make a simple argument... [30 Aug 2000]
The Value Proposition: power, information and the European Union
Comment Hungry for IT warriors, the US has announced an increase in the number of its H-1B visas so that by 2003 US business will have sucked in 600,000 highly skilled workers from the global pool of talent. Ebusiness exposes... [31 May 2000]
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