Indian, U.S. firms urge Obama action on visas

	Christopher O'Malley: Stimulating IT innovation | Paul Glen: Words are the first hurdle for new tech managers
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	Indian, U.S. firms urge Obama action on visas Some of the largest IT companies in India and the U.S. are complaining to President Obama that it has become increasingly difficult to get work visas for their employees -- and they want him to take action. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: EMC Transform End User Computing Turn to EMC to bring new simplicity, power, and efficiency to end user computing-any user, any device, anywhere. Click to continue In this Issue Christopher O'Malley: Stimulating IT innovation Paul Glen: Words are the first hurdle for new tech managers Wall Street Beat: Tech bellwethers point to IT trends Indian outsourcers highlight U.S. job creation T-Mobile to lay off nearly 2,000 call center workers SURVEY: IDG Research Participate in this survey for a chance at $500! Computerworld is conducting a survey about the evolving role and influence of technology buyers in today's corporate enterprise. Participate in this brief survey and enter a sweepstakes to win a $500 cash prize. Please share your valued opinion with us in this important survey by clicking on the link below. Christopher O'Malley: Stimulating IT innovation We are seeing IT-centric innovation become the key to competitive advantage. IT is not longer about delivering a rock-solid general ledger system and a CRM system that lets you deliver incrementally better customer service than others in your market. It's also about incubating ideas that can make sure you're the disruptor, instead of the disruptee. Read More Paul Glen: Words are the first hurdle for new tech managers New managers lack the language to understand and express the value of management itself. Insider (registration required) Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Hosting.com What if your key applications FAIL? Build for 100% application availability in the Cloud with Microsoft SQL Server. Achieve the highest levels of availability, performance, scalability, and security for your mission-critical applications while minimizing cost. Learn more at the April 12 webinar from Microsoft and Hosting.com subject matter experts. Register now! Wall Street Beat: Tech bellwethers point to IT trends Hewlett-Packard, Oracle and Apple sparked some of the biggest corporate financial news of the week, highlighting sector trends as IT edges toward what could be its best first quarter on the markets since the dot-com bust in 2000, despite some turbulence during the past few days. Read More Indian outsourcers highlight U.S. job creation Indian outsourcers employed 107,000 staff in the U.S. in the Indian fiscal year ended March 31, 2011, in addition to providing indirect employment to 175,000 people, according to a study to be released in the U.S. by the National Association of Software and Services Companies on Wednesday. Read More T-Mobile to lay off nearly 2,000 call center workers A T-Mobile call center consolidation will cost 1,900 people their jobs, as the company works through a restructuring following the failure of AT&T's proposed acquisition of the smaller operator. Read More
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