The bill introduced by US Senators Mr. Chuck Grassley and Mr. Dick Durbin on Thursday is expected to have grim implications for the Indian IT firms, as it aims at curtailing the use the of H-1B and L1 visas, thereby limiting the competitiveness of the offshore vendors.

The bill proposes to alter the H-1B and L1 visa stipulations in such a way that US employers would be prohibited from employing additional H-1B and L-1 guest-workers in case more than 50 per cent of their workers are H-1B and L-1 visa holders. The implementation of the proposal in its current form could cause a big dent in the profitability of the Indian IT services market.

New York - A Delta Airlines plane on a flight from New York to Tel Aviv was forced early Saturday to make an emergency landing in Boston after a passenger sought to force his way into the cockpit, the local television channel WCVB reported. The report said that some 2 hours after the fully-loaded Boeing 767 plane took off, a man tried to storm the cockpit.

Five passengers managed to overpower him and keep him tied down with a safety belt until the plane could land at Boston's Logan airport.

The man was described as a 22-year-old Israeli.

Despite having posted the quite favorable 2009 second quarter results, there are indications that Apple is cutting costs in order to battle out the impact of the still-ongoing financial meltdown - laying-off full-time retail employees being one of the practical measures undertaken by the company.

In its 10-Q form filed with the SEC, Apple has made a mention of 14,000 full-time retail employees at the end of the last quarter; though the number of employees mentioned in the same document, for the December 2008 quarter, was 15,600.

That RealNetworks' last September-launched product RealDVD is in troubled waters is obvious - it is being tested in court, as lawyers arguing for the Hollywood studios alleging that RealNetworks violated copyright law!

The sale of the $30-priced RealDVD, which could copy retail DVD content onto one hard drive and up to five devices, was blocked by a federal Judge, after only a few thousand sales, as Hollywood raised objections against it.

Almost a month after its launch in the App Store, 'Bump' - the social networking application that facilitates the transfer of contact information between iPhones and iPod Touches - has become a part of iPhone's history on Thursday, by becoming the one-billionth app to be downloaded from the App Store.

Interestingly, Bump is the first App Store offering coming from Bump Technologies, a development shop of three ex-Texas Instruments employees - David Lieb, Jake Mintz, and Andy Huibers,. In order to support a social connection, the initially-free Bump app makes use of the accelerometer of the iPhone or iPod Touches, Internet connection, and location data.

Washington, Apr 25 : Former Miss USA Tara Conner has revealed what it was like to face her demons again as she helps others in MTV's "Girls of Hedsor Hall".

Conner, 23, who almost lost the crown in 2006 after it was revealed she was abusing alcohol, drugs, and engaging in other not-so-nice acts, chose to use her experience to help others in the production.

The reality show took twelve total train-wrecks and attempted to transform them into lovely ladies inside England's dungeon of discipline, Hedsor House.