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InternetNews December 21, 2005 Roy Mark	DTV Bill Heads to President's Desk With President Bush's signature, over-the-air analog broadcasting will go dark in three years.
InternetNews November 21, 2005 Roy Mark	House Approves DTV Bill Television broadcasters have three years to clear analog spectrum for wireless broadband providers and first responders.
InternetNews October 14, 2005 Roy Mark	Senate Panel Eyes Vote on Digital TV Switch Tech executives urge Congress to set a hard deadline for broadcasters to shift completely to digital signals of no later than 2009. The vacated analog signals would be given to first responders and auctioned. A vote on legislation could come Wednesday.
InternetNews June 28, 2007 Roy Mark	H1-B Visa Increase Nixed With Immigration Bill Unable to muster 60 votes to cut off debate, Senate Democrats today tabled their efforts to enact a comprehensive immigration reform bill.
InternetNews May 25, 2007 Roy Mark	Senate Votes to Hike H1-B Visa Fees Amendment to immigration bill draws sharp opposition from tech coalition.
InternetNews October 24, 2005 Roy Mark	Lawmakers Disagree on DTV Deadline, Subsidies The U.S. House and Senate are $2 billion and four months apart in their legislative efforts to finally wean Americans off analog broadcasting.
InternetNews October 27, 2005 Roy Mark	House, Senate Still in Squabble Over DTV Details Though a U.S. House panel joined its Senate counterpart Wednesday in agreeing to flip a 2009 switch on digital broadcasting, the precise date, the exact cost and the absolute certainty of the digital television transition remains in question.
InternetNews October 20, 2005 Roy Mark	DTV Deadline to Vacate Spectrum Advances The Senate Commerce Committee voted today to boot broadcasters out of their analog spectrum by no later than April 7, 2009. After that date, broadcasters would air programs only in digital signals.
InternetNews December 19, 2005 Roy Mark	DTV Transition Date Set The House approves the DTV transition date and the Senate expected to agree today.
InternetNews March 12, 2008	Gates Wants More Professional Visas Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates asked Congress on Wednesday for more visas for skilled professionals, echoing arguments often made by many in the tech sector.
InternetNews July 13, 2005 Roy Mark	Broadcasters Agree to Hard Date DTV Transition After nine years of aggressive lobbying to slow the digital television transition, broadcasters are dropping their objections to a Jan. 1, 2009, deadline to end U.S. analog broadcasting.
InternetNews May 26, 2005 Roy Mark	Intel Chips in on DTV Transition Intel tells a Congressional panel that TV spectrum will accelerate wireless broadband roll-out.
Global Services November 29, 2007	The Future of Temporary Immigration The debate on skilled immigrants will peak as 2008 U.S. Presidential elections approach, and then ebb. Even if current regulations don't get stricter through amendments, their enforcement certainly will.
InternetNews June 5, 2006 Roy Mark	Poof! H1-B Visas Gone Four months before the 2007 U.S. fiscal years even begins, visas for highly skilled tech workers are already consigned.
InternetNews January 16, 2007 Roy Mark	Coalition Pushes For DTV Transition Tech companies, trade groups urge Congress to hold fast to Feb. 17, 2009 cut-off as the end of analog broadcasting.
InternetNews June 17, 2005 Roy Mark	McCain Stakes Claim on DTV Transition Bill John McCain introduced legislation setting a hard date of Jan. 1, 2009, for the United States to cease analog television broadcasting.
InternetNews February 2, 2006 Roy Mark	DTV Bill Heads to President's Desk Congress finally sent legislation Wednesday to President Bush that sets Feb. 17, 2009, as the end of analog broadcasting in the United States. After that, television sets must have digital tuners to receive an over-the-air signal.
InternetNews April 11, 2007 Roy Mark	Bills Would Expand H1-B Visa Quotas Lawmakers seek to expand the number of foreign U.S. graduates for technology work pool.
InternetNews February 7, 2007 Roy Mark	DTV Coalition Plan No Cyren Call The High Tech DTV Coalition today criticized an alternative plan by Nextel founder Morgan O'Brien to use spectrum allocated for public safety communications by Congress.
InternetNews November 20, 2009	Tech's H-1B Hiring Faces 'Employ America Act' Bipartisan legislation is designed to limit foreign labor via temporary guest worker programs.
Global Services July 23, 2007 Juhi Bhambal	Temp. Visas: Outsourcing's Thorny Issue As two Senators charge tech companies of bringing cheap foreign workers to the U.S., costing Americans their jobs, the thorny issue of supposed visa abuse once again mars an otherwise rosy outsourcing story. We trace the events of the last two months.
InternetNews January 30, 2009 Kenneth Corbin	House Likely to Pass DTV Delay Bill Next Week After House Republicans shot down a first attempt, the Senate passes a second bill on concerns that millions of Americans aren't ready for the conversion.
Global Services May 27, 2007 Shyamanuja Das	Protectionism v2.0: Anti-offshoring or Anti-Indian? Two members of U.S. Senate have sent out letters to nine Indian tech companies demanding to know how they are using the H-1B visas issued to them.
InternetNews February 18, 2009 Kenneth Corbin	DTV Delay Can't Deter Verizon, White Spaces Fans The spectrum might be off-limits until June, but major telcos and tech firms are still pressing ahead with plans for the airwaves.
BusinessWeek January 17, 2008 Jay Greene	Case Study: Microsoft's Canadian Solution Microsoft opened an office in Richmond, B.C., where it hopes to place hundreds of workers unable to obtain visas a few miles south in the U.S.
InternetNews April 26, 2005 Roy Mark	Tech to TV Execs: Get Off the Beachfront! A group of IT CEOs urges Congress to set a date certain for digital TV transition so spectrum can be opened for wireless broadband.
CIO September 30, 2008 Grant Gross	Where the Candidates Stand on Five Technology Issues The 2008 presidential election gives CIOs and other IT executives a choice of Republican nominee Senator John McCain and Democratic nominee Senator Barack Obama who are both interested in technology-related issues.
CIO November 15, 2005 Grant Gross	Help for Emergency Responders The push for digital TV would hasten better communications.
InternetNews May 4, 2005 Roy Mark	GOP Blames Dems for Slow Tech Agenda Texas Republican Tom DeLay says the Democratic party is only paying lip service to high tech issues.
InternetNews November 29, 2004 Roy Mark	H-1B Visa Expansion Draws Praise High tech interests scored a late victory in Congress when the lame duck legislature increased the 2005 H-1B visa ceiling by 20,000 foreign workers. The visas are limited to workers with graduate degrees from U.S. universities.
Job Journal October 29, 2006 Michael Kinsman	Career Pros: Few Happy with High-Tech Visas US companies complain of long delays to import needed skills.
InternetNews June 10, 2005 Roy Mark	Telecom Reform? Don't Bet On It Republicans are proposing subsidies and Democrats are offering tax incentives, and it's both good news and bad news for technology.
InternetNews March 13, 2009 Kenneth Corbin	CEA Head Blasts Federal 'Panic Spending' Gary Shapiro urges political action to keep organized labor out of the tech industry and to rein in government spending.
InternetNews February 8, 2007 Roy Mark	Skepticism Clouds Proposed Spectrum Plan Nextel founder Morgan O'Brien urges lawmakers to ditch DTV transition plans for public-safety spectrum.
Knowledge@Wharton	Debate over Scarcity -- and Skills -- of IT Workers According to the Information Technology Association of America's May study, U.S. companies will be short nearly 600,000 qualified IT professionals over the next 12 months.
PC Magazine November 30, 2005 Sebastian Rupley	Switching to Digital TV The national transition to digital television may be upon us.
InternetNews August 15, 2005 Roy Mark	Game Over: Next Year's H1-B Visas Already Gone Early run on visa pool prompts tech calls for increased allocations.
Home Theater January 29, 2009	House Delays DTV Transition Delay The House of Representatives voted yesterday to keep the DTV transition running on schedule, defeating legislation that would have allowed some stations to delay the transition from February 17 to June 12.
CIO January 1, 2003 Stephanie Overby	Cap On, Cap Off In 1998 and 2000, when high-tech companies asked Congress to raise the cap on H-1B visas (temporary permits that allow qualified foreigners to work in the United States), nary a legislator blinked. The cap, however, is slated to shrink to its original level in October 2003.
InternetNews November 5, 2008	Tech's Eyes Turn Now to Obama, Dems The new administration promises change, but how will that play with the IT and Internet industry's agenda?
InternetNews August 17, 2007 Roy Mark	FCC: Get Your Spectrum Paddles Ready The FCC's January 700MHz spectrum sale might be most compelling air-wave auction in years.
Inc. December 2005 Stephanie Clifford	Cracks in the Melting Pot Visa restrictions are keeping entrepreneurial immigrants away, and they're finding new opportunities overseas.
InternetNews September 30, 2005 Roy Mark	Katrina May Blow Broadcasters Out of Analog More spectrum and money for first responders is getting renewed Congressional interest in the backwash of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.
Home Theater January 16, 2009	Three-Month DTV Delay Urged Sen. John Rockefeller has introduced a bill that would delay the switchover from analog to digital broadcasting from the currently scheduled February 17th to June 12th.
InternetNews November 9, 2006 Roy Mark	Lame Ducks Limp Back to Congress With a major power shift coming in January, Republican-led House and Senate return for mop-up session.
Home Theater June 17, 2010 Mark Fleischmann	DTV Transition Is a Year Old Are you enjoying your free over-the-air HDTV?
InternetNews June 9, 2005 Roy Mark	FCC Tuning In DTV The Federal Communications Commission told TV makers today they must comply with a July 1 mandate to carry digital tuners in half of their most popular models.
InternetNews June 14, 2007 Roy Mark	Public Safety Wireless Plan Sees Red Public/private-funded network for national first responder network sparks lawmaker debate.
InternetNews February 2, 2005 Roy Mark	Ensign to Chair Senate Tech Subcommittee The new group will target Universal Service Fund reform and VoIP as key issues.
Home Theater June 11, 2009	DTV Transition Deadline Is Tomorrow Tomorrow, June 12, 2009 is the final deadline for the transition from analog to digital television broadcasting. Here's the DTV transition thought of the day: Does it matter?