EDITOR'S NOTE

Good morning,

If there was ever an indicator for IT jobs drying up overseas, H-1B visa application figures for the US are revealing.

So far there have only been 43,000 applications for H-1B visas, with 65,000 available. Over the same period last year there were 163,000 applications.

The drop has been put down to the number of jobs available - although speculation abounds that it's also about protecting American jobs from 'imports'...

-- Ry Crozier

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TODAY ON ITNEWS

By Iain Thomson | April 15, 2009

Figures released by the US Citizenship and Immigration Services have shown a steep drop in applications for H-1B visas, which allow overseas IT workers to enter the US for employment.

By Rosalie Marshall | April 15, 2009

Following complaints by Google that Privacy International is "far from impartial" the privacy body's director Simon Davies has announced his separate 80/20 Thinking consulting business will no longer offer private advice to firms on privacy related issues.

By Staff writers | April 14, 2009

A clear majority of iTnews readers prefer the Government-backed 'RuddNet' National Broadband Network (NBN) plan to previous plans to contract the building of an NBN to a single company or consortium.

By David Neal | April 15, 2009

Google has released a developer preview of the next version of its Android mobile operating system.

By Daniel Robinson | April 15, 2009

EMC is aiming to do for enterprise storage what VMware has already done for virtual servers.

By Shaun Nichols | April 14, 2009

HP will appeal a US$53 million ruling issued against the company in a patent case..

By Jim Finkle | April 14, 2009

Sales at Sun Microsystems, already under pressure, could take a further hit from the collapse of IBM's multibillion dollar bid.

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