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Are H1b workers replacing American workers. Lets see the statistics. With unemployment rate of 8.9%, around 14 million (14,000,000) Americans ( source ) are with out jobs as of Aug 2011. Total labor force is 153.6 million. Number of H1b visa slots this year is 85000. This counts to 0.61% of the total unemployed. How is avoiding this 0.61% visas, going to give jobs for the remaining 99.39% of the workforce. People got to find ways to create jobs for everyone, rather than pointing fingers to things which don't mean anything at all.

This year, the h1b applications have not filled even after 5 days. This clearly indicates, how some companies have misused the h1b visas in the past 2-3 years. With the strict rules enforced, the eligible candidates have a good chance of getting and adding value to the America's technical work force. There are total of 85000 visas alloted. 20000 for those with a Master's degree and 65000 for the others.

What do you think will be the future of US economy. Will Barack Obama be able to keep up to his words. He is taking all possible steps to back up the economy. Are the steps taken good for providing jobs to the people? Will the people to able to retain their homes? So many questions arise in the minds of people. I am also having the same question? Any comments?

Google has announced the launch of its own new internet browser called chrome , competing with Microsoft's Internet Explorer and Mozilla's Firefox. Its expected to be available for download on Sep 2nd, 2008. Google had already come up with many online applications like, docs, spreadsheet, calender, etc. Lets see how Google is going to revolutionize the way we browse the internet.

Google maps does not open in Firefox for some people. I have seen some people having this problem. Even I had the same problem. Fix: All you have to do is disable the Skype plug-in for Firefox Steps: Go to. Tools --> Add-ons , select "Skype extension for Firefox" and click Disable It wi ll as k for restart. After you restart Firefox, you will be able to view google maps. Hope this tip was useful.

Google has come up with a solution integrating hardware and software called " Mini ". The Mini offers true plug-and-play installation and can be purchased online. Features: http://www.google.com/enterprise/mini_vs_gsa.html Mini helps in providing more relevant search results, making it a perfect solution for online search. Resource: http://www.google.com/enterprise/mini/#utm_campaign=en&utm_source=en-ha-na-us_ca-ct&utm_medium=ha

Google has come with internet encyclopedia where anybody can submit articles of their interest. It has been widely viewed as the company's answer to Wikipedia, which has emerged as one of the Web's leading reference tools by drawing upon the collective wisdom of unpaid anonymous contributors. Unlike Wikipedia, Know requires the authors to identify themselves to help the audience assess the source's credibility. Google doesn't intent to scree the submissions for accuracy and instead will rely on its search formulas to highlight the articles that readers believe are credible The contributing author and Google will share any revenue generated from the ads, which are supposed to be related to the topic covered in the knol. My First Knol: http://knol.google.com/k/giridhar-kumar/ejb-30-and-jpa/3hn6ayvz3cnxh/2 You can sign up at www.knol.google.com and start ur knols :)