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Immigration is becoming as nettlesome to high-tech companies as it has long been in the agriculture and construction businesses. Although technology firms don't reach into the same labor pool as do ag comglomerates or building contractors, their problems are converging. The challenge, advocates of immigration reform say, is a lack of government responsiveness to their need for brain power.

What a difference a few years make. Back when Al Gore ran for president in 2000, experts and laypeople alike engaged in lively debates about whether climate change was real or imagined. Two elections later -- after a mammoth public education effort by that same Al Gore -- most people believe that the globe is indeed warming up. The problem remains what to do about it.

Chipmaker Intel said this week that despite its record $10.2 billion in revenue for the third quarter, the company is worried that the global economic crisis will affect future performance. Despite such a general malaise across the industry, however, there is some very good news on the tech front.

Lorelle VanFossen has written a fantastic series of articles on Blog Herald about the professional blogging industry. The series is helpful for both employers looking to hire bloggers and...

Spending a couple million dollars doesn't guarantee commercial success.

All the major studios are on board. Is Apple's iTunes store in trouble?

U.S. campaign is making a dent in offshore operations and folding more than a few hands of online Texas Holdem.

Spammers are a wily bunch, continually thinking up new and cunning ways to avoid detection. Here are a few examples of techniques that are becoming more common.

How closely will competitors follow in this latest digital home pursuit?

One of the books that had a big impact on me during my larval stage as a journalist was Dan Rather's "The Camera Never Blinks." The memoir was of Rather's experiences as a truly trailblazing and courageous TV reporter, not Rather the lightning-rod anchor with the southern-fried election night phraseology.