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Don Tennant

February 2010

February 25, 2010

Online Services’ Senseless Secrecy Draws Senseless ‘Spy’ Label

The issue of online service providers’ law enforcement compliance guidelines made the headlines again this week when Cyrptome.org published a leaked copy of the granddaddy of them all, the U.S. dom... More >

February 24, 2010

Every Victory Counts in H-1B Fraud Battle

When you’re an unemployed IT worker whose job prospects have been hampered by everything from hiring freezes to age discrimination to H-1B visa abuse, it’s a good day whenever you can find at least o... More >

February 22, 2010

Devil Mountain Software Hoax: No Apology, No Forgiveness

ZDNet was miffed. It was gearing up to break a story on Monday morning that it knew would embarrass rival publisher IDG, and it had to run a half-baked story on Sunday morning instead, after IDG st... More >

February 19, 2010

Full Disclosure: Regrets Or Not, I’m Still Using My iPhone

My previous post, "Why I Regret Buying an iPhone," in which I wrote about the ramifications of Apple’s almost psychotic obsession with secrecy, begs an uncomfortable question. Have I stopped using m... More >

February 18, 2010

Why I Regret Buying an iPhone

I have an iPhone, but if I had it to do over again, I would never have bought one.   It works just fine; I haven’t experienced the problems with AT&T that a lot of iPhone owners complain abo... More >

February 17, 2010

Economic Upheaval Changes Meaning of 'Diversity'

Discussions of diversity in the workplace tend to fall into two buckets. They’re either robotic proceedings in which requisite, if fleeting, attention is paid to providing an inclusive environment fo... More >

February 15, 2010

Rural Sourcing: Why ‘IT Inbreeding’ Is Unhealthy

In my post, “Domestic Sourcing: Overcoming the 'India of the United States' Stigma” last week, I mentioned that the agenda of this week’s 2010 Outsourcing World Summit in Orlando includes a present... More >

February 10, 2010

Domestic Sourcing: Overcoming the 'India of the United States' Stigma

Question: What happens when you depict the people doing IT work at offshore locations as brain-dead, incompetent misfits who lack any substantive talent? Answer: It might come back to bite you when y... More >

February 9, 2010

Centralized Training May Be Answer to Replace-or-Retrain Dilemma

One of the toughest challenges facing public companies in this country is figuring out how to satisfy Wall Street without decimating their loyal but costly workforces. I’ve met no one who has defined... More >

February 7, 2010

Haiti Quake a Reminder of Need for National IT Corps/Reserve

As we approach the four-week mark since Haiti was devastated by the massive earthquake that killed more than 200,000 people, we can begin to reflect on the relief effort and what entities have truly ... More >

February 3, 2010

U.S. Citizen or H-1B Candidate? You Make the Call

After reading my “H-1B Spotlight Shines on a Distraction” post earlier this week, Kim Berry, president of the Programmers Guild, drew the conclusion that I “favor allowing employers to sponsor H-1B... More >

February 1, 2010

H-1B Spotlight Shines on a Distraction

Reliant Energy in Houston is taking a lot of heat for bringing work under an outsourced IT contract back in-house, and hiring H-1B visa holders to help do the job. What’s unfortunate about the outcry... More >

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