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Bill Gates Asks Congress for More Tech-Worker Visas

Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates urged Congress to allow more H-1B immigration visas for high-tech workers educated in the U.S. at taxpayer expense. Gates said if foreign workers can't get H-1B visas, Microsoft will hire in their countries. Gates told the Northern Virginia Technology Council that the white space between TV signals should be for Wi-Fi.

High-Tech Visas

"It makes no sense to educate people in our universities, often subsidized by U.S. taxpayers, and then insist they return home," Gates told the House Science and Technology Committee at a hearing Wednesday. Gates has been a leading proponent of dramatically increasing the number of H-1B temporary visas issued to foreign computer scientists, allowing them to work in the United States.

During Gates' testimony, Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Calif.) pushed back, saying those foreign experts will take jobs away from Americans. "If we bring [in] more people from the outside, will it not also depress the wages in our own country that people like yourself would have to pay your employees?"

"No," said Gates firmly. "These top people are going to be hired. It's just a question of what country they are hired in. When we bring in these world-class engineers, we create jobs around them. The B and C students are the ones who get those jobs around these top engineers. And if these top engineers are forced to work in India, we will hire the B and C students from India to work around them."

Push for White Space

Then it was off to the Northern Virginia Technology Council, where Gates and Microsoft Chief Research and Strategy Officer Craig Mundie made a push for adoption of technology to deliver wireless Internet over white space -- the vacant frequencies that provide buffers between television broadcasts.

"White-space activity today is sort of our last hope to get some good spectrum," Mundie said. "The only way to do it is to use the unused TV channels and very smart radios. Ultimately the public will pay the tab, either because we fall behind as a society or we have to make extraordinary adjustments to catch up."

Gates said the white-space spectrum offers a good solution for rural areas in the U.S. "We're hopeful that [white space] will be made available so that Wi-Fi can explode in terms of its usage, even out into some of these less-dense areas, where distance has been a big problem for Wi-Fi," Gates said.

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Australia postpone Pakistan tour

• Cricket Australia boss James Sutherland said they had been "left with no alternative" but to postpone the tour, which was due to begin on 29 March.Australia have pulled out of their tour of Pakistan because of security fears.Pakistan coach Geoff Lawson said it was "very disappointing" but added "it is better that the series has been postponed rather than cancelled". The decision comes in the wake of a wave of violence in Pakistan surrounding last month's elections.

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Musharraf party 'lagging in poll'

Supporters of opposition parties including Nawaz Sharif's PML-N and the PPP of the late Benazir Bhutto have been celebrating in the streets.Opposition parties in Pakistan have strong leads in elections, a spokesman for a party close to President Pervez Musharraf has conceded.He is not standing in the parliamentary election himself, but a clear defeat of his supporters could herald struggles over his presidency, analysts suggest."If the results are confirmed we will play the part of the opposition as effectively as we can," he said."The result will be the voice of the nation and whosoever wins we should accept it - that includes myself," said Mr Musharraf.

Machines 'to match man by 2029'

Humanity is on the brink of advances that will see tiny robots implanted in people's brains to make them more intelligent.The engineer believes machines and humans will eventually merge through devices implanted in the body to boost intelligence and health."But that's not going to be an alien invasion of intelligent machines to displace us." Machines were already doing hundreds of things humans used to do, at human levels of intelligence or better, in many different areas, he said.
Man versus machine
"I've made the case that we will have both the hardware and the software to achieve human level artificial intelligence with the broad suppleness of human intelligence including our emotional intelligence by 2029," he said."We're already a human machine civilisation; we use our technology to expand our physical and mental horizons and this will be a further extension of that."Humans and machines would eventually merge, by means of devices embedded in people's bodies to keep them healthy and improve their intelligence."We'll have intelligent nanobots go into our brains through the capillaries and interact directly with our biological neurons." The nanobots, he said, would "make us smarter, remember things better and automatically go into full emergent virtual reality environments through the nervous system".

Yahoo Board Divided Amid Talks with News Corp.

Despite its bold rejection of Microsoft $44.6 billion buyout offer, there is not peace around the Yahoo board table.The Bostock group is concerned that Yang's strong emotional resistance to the Microsoft deal is trumping his fiduciary duty to look out for shareholders' interests. All corporate directors face personal liability for actions that violate the "duty of care" and the "duty of loyalty" to shareholders."The emotional part of Yang would rather do anything but sell to Microsoft, but he doesn't have the cards to come up with a value-creating, competitive alternative for shareholders," an unidentified source told the newspaper. Aligned with Yang are Eric Hippeau of Softbank and Robert Kotick, CEO of Activision, said the Post's source, who appears to be closely aligned with the Bostock faction. "They're just as emotional as Jerry and as biased against selling to Microsoft as he is."

AOL 'contemplates Yahoo approach'

Microsoft has offered to buy Yahoo for more than $40bn (£20.5bn).But AOL is thought to be keen on being the firm that helps Yahoo avoid falling into Microsoft's clutches.Yahoo has dismissed Microsoft's $31-a-share offer as undervaluing its brand, audience, investments in advertising platforms and future growth prospects, free cash flow and earnings potential.An influential Microsoft investor has called on the software giant to walk away from the Yahoo offer.He, like many other investors, believes that buying Yahoo would prove a distraction to Microsoft.Microsoft shares have fallen by about 10% since it made the Yahoo offer - wiping almost $35bn from its share value.Microsoft wants to merge with Yahoo to increase its online presence and enable it to better compete with industry leader Google.

China suffers first defeat at WTO

Upholding a complaint from the European Union, Canada and US, the preliminary WTO finding agrees that current Chinese practice is protectionist.China has had its first defeat at the World Trade Organization (WTO), in a case centred on restrictions on the importation of foreign-made car parts."We can confirm that, in all major respects, the panel has agreed with the United States that China has acted inconsistently with its WTO commitments." China first joined the organisation in 2001, pledging to open up its domestic market to overseas firms and abide by WTO rules for international trade.The US announced last year that it was seeking a WTO inquiry over whether Chinese limits on imports of copyrighted US goods broke trade rules.Separately, the EU said earlier this month that it was considering launching WTO action against Chinese restrictions on foreign financial news groups.

Yahoo 'to reject Microsoft offer'

Microsoft's $31 a share offer was 62% above the level at which Yahoo's shares were trading.Yahoo's shares closed at $29.20, suggesting doubt among traders that the offer would be successful or that a higher price would be offered.A source quoted by the Wall Street Journal said that Yahoo's board would be unlikely to consider anything below $40 per share.A $40 a share offer would be a 109% premium to the $19.18 closing price of Yahoo's shares the day before the original offer was announced.Yahoo's shares have not traded above $40 for two years.Yahoo's share price falls have come as it has struggled to compete with Google, which has also been a big competitor for Microsoft.Microsoft's shares have fallen 12% since it made its offer, which may reflect concerns that it has already offered too much or that such a large deal would distract its management away from its core software business.Yahoo has reportedly decided to reject Microsoft's unsolicited takeover offer.

Apple Cuts iPhone, iPod Touch Production

Meanwhile, Net Applications released new numbers on its operating-system statistics, which revealed that Macs accounted for the largest percentage of Internet traffic ever -- 7.57 percent. iPhone-based traffic nudged up from 0.12 percent in December to 0.13 percent in January. More importantly, Net Applications' numbers show that iPhone traffic is coming from many more countries than have official wireless carriers for the phones, indicating substantial gray-market sales."We've heard the rumours that many iPhones are being used outside the officially sanctioned countries. So he has decided to check it out and surprise, surprise, it's true. The iPhone has a presence in almost every country on Earth," Net Applications wrote in its report.Mac sales appear to be rising, but Craig Berger of FBR Research says Apple, Inc. has reduced orders for iPhones and iPods for the second time in two months. Apple's iPod Touch may have the weakest sales since it is less than an Apple iPhone. Another report finds that Apple iPhone calls are coming from countries without Apple contracts.

UK police say blast killed Bhutto

Detectives from Scotland Yard were asked by Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf to examine the circumstances surrounding Bhutto's death in December.British detectives investigating the death of ex-Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto say she died from the effect of a bomb blast, not gunfire.But Bhutto's party has insisted she was shot by an assassin, and has accused the government of a cover-up.Ms Bhutto's Pakistan People's Party (PPP) has suggested that if sophisticated weaponry were used it could indicate the involvement of elements of the security establishment.TV pictures that emerged after Bhutto's death on 27 December appeared to show a gunman aiming a weapon at the Pakistani opposition leader as she stood through the escape hatch of a vehicle during a rally in Rawalpindi.The UK police reportconfirmed that shots were fired - but said they were not the cause of death.

It said after discharging his firearm the attacker had detonated explosives, blowing himself up.The report said the evidence suggested there was only one attacker, not two, as had been speculated.

Microsoft tinkering with scary-smart ad spots

Microsoft showed off a handful of early-stage advertising projects at its headquarters that may or may not turn up as part of Microsoft's Web advertising platform.The demonstrations come just days after Microsoft's $44.6 billion bid for Yahoo Inc., which, if successful, will boost the software maker's Web traffic and online ad revenue.With its 2006 acquisition of aQuantive, the software maker gained a broader network of Web sites on which to sell ads, and tools to help marketers buy them.A few of Microsoft's projects were aimed at helping advertisers get better at reaching their ideal customers online, particularly using search keywords.The company showed a dashboard advertisers could use to forecast the success of certain keyword advertising campaigns and a system it says will make it easier for advertisers think about key ideas, rather than hundreds of individual keywords.
But most of the adCenter Labs prototypes had little to do with search

Oil prices fall further in Asian trade

World oil prices fell further in Asian trade after the US government reported another rise in crude oil inventories against the backdrop of a possible US recession.New York's main oil futures contract, light sweet crude for delivery in March, was 22 cents lower at $86.92 a barrel. The contract closed down $1.27 at $ 87.14 per barrel in the wake of the weekly US inventory report.
Brent North Sea crude for March delivery was 13 cents lower at $87.65 a barrel after settling $1.04 lower at $87.78 in London.Prices slumped after the US Department of Energy said American crude oil inventories had jumped by 7.0 million barrels in the week ending February 1, the fourth straight rise in crude stocks.The increase was much higher than analysts' consensus forecast, which had predicted a gain of 2.2 million barrels.US gasoline, or petrol, stockpiles increased by 3.6 million barrels, which also beat market expectations calling for a 1.7-million-barrel rise.
"Our belief is the US won't actually go into a recession," but the oil market thinks it will, he said, and that has put downward pressure on prices.The United States is the world's biggest oil consumer, so slowing US growth can have a knock-on effect on global crude prices.

US economy concerns knock shares

It's worst share losses in almost a year, after data showed that activity in the key US service sector unexpectedly shrunk in January.World stock markets renewed fears about the health of the US, the world's largest economy.Fears that the worst US housing slump in 25 years is crippling the wider economy sent the Dow Jones index down almost 3% and hit European shares.Economists had forecast a milder decrease to 53.0.The sell-off was broad based, hitting banking giants, technology firms and energy stocks.A reduction in their credit ranking would lead to banks, already reeling from losses centred on US mortgages taken out by individuals on low incomes or with poor credit, having to make further write-downs.

Microsoft-Yahoo Fuss May Let Google Grab Mobile Ads

Among the benefits Microsoft could get from acquiring Yahoo for $44.6 billion is a chance to compete in the emerging mobile advertising market. But while Microsoft struggles to take over Yahoo, both Microsoft and Yahoo could be distracted while Google becomes dominant in still another market. He said,"The real race today" Scoble wrote, "is for ownership of your mobile phone." He noted that six million cell-phone users are added every month in China. "So every month that Microsoft and Yahoo will be stuck in some courtroom arguing out why this is a good deal means money in the bank for Google as they close mobile-phone deal after mobile-phone deal."

House prices unchanged in January

However, the country's biggest mortgage lender said that house prices were rising at an annual rate of 4.5%.House prices were unchanged in January compared to December, according to the Halifax bank.The gain in annual house price growth pushed the value of the average UK home to £197,244 - a rise of £7,628.Problems in global financial markets, weakening consumer demand, higher interest rates and increases in petrol and food costs have all combined to rein in growth.The Financial Services Authority (FSA) also warned that a million homeowners could struggle to repay their home loans over the next 12 months.

Rupee remains stable against dollar at 39.43

The rupee remained in a tight range on lack of any major trigger and was quoted slightly better at 39.43/44 against the US dollar in late morning deals on the back of stability in equity markets.At the Interbank Foreign Exchange (forex) market, the domestic unit opened at 39.45/46 per dollar from Monday’s close of Rs 39.4450/4550 a dollar.Later, it edged up and was quoted at 39.43/44 per dollar.Dealers attributed the modest recovery in the rupee to stability in equity markets and fresh buying by Foreign Institutional Investors (FIIs), who pumped in over Rs 163.00 crore.The BSE benchmark Sensex moved up by 29 points to 18,689.41 at 10.30 am. Expectations of fresh capital inflows helped the rupee to remain steady at higher levels.Weak dollar overseas also helped the rupee, while anticipations of central bank intervention at higher levels capped the rupee's surge, they added.