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iTWire Verizon and Dreamscape Immersive ink 5G innovation partnership, new 5G innovation lab Shares Verizon and Dreamscape Immersive have announced a partnership aimed at "innovating virtual reality (VR) applications using 5G and mobile edge computing (MEC)." The partnership’s first priorities will focus on 5G immersive-learning and training innovations for use in enterprise, public sector, and education environments. “Verizon’s partnership with Dreamscape shows how innovative...

Apr 2, 2021 12:00pm Verizon Ventures has taken an equity stake in Dreamscape as part of the partnership. (Getty Images) Verizon is looking to create new education and training applications that utilize 5G and mobile edge compute for immersive virtual reality (VR) experiences in a partnership with Dreamscape. Los Angeles-based Dreamscape Immersive delivers VR “adventures” in four locations around the world. Each promise to transport visitors – as active participants – into a unique and c...

Technology companies depend on H-1B visa to hire tens of thousands of employees each year from countries like India and China Three Republican U.S. lawmakers have introduced a legislation in Congress to bar American employers from hiring H-1B workers, who are mostly highly-skilled Indian IT professionals, if they have recently, or plan to fire their local workers, seeking to put an end to the “allure of cheap foreign labour”. Introduced in the House of Representatives by Republican congres...

Given that the Democrats have a majority in the House of Representatives, the bill has little chance to be passed.

The delays constitute another challenge to the country's ability to recruit and retain highly educated, highly skilled students and workers from abroad.

Education News: Amid all the bad news worldwide around the Covid-19 situation, the application trend for global business education in the US has rebounded with a reco

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: Earlier this week, on January 26, 2021, the Student and Exchange Visitor Program (SEVP) rescinded its  intention, announced less than two weeks earlier, to develop an OPT Employment Compliance Unit. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) compliance-focused plan included close collaboration with other government agencies.  According to SEVP, following additional reviews of ICE’s current Optional Practical Training (OPT) comp...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: Earlier this week, on January 26, 2021, the Student and Exchange Visitor Program (SEVP) rescinded its  intention, announced less than two weeks earlier, to develop an OPT Employment Compliance Unit. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) compliance-focused plan included close collaboration with other government agencies. According to SEVP, following additional reviews of ICE’s current Optional Practical Training (OPT) compli...

15 Jan 2021 The Department of Homeland Security is promising to issue a detailed report about the roughly 500,000 white-collar jobs that are transferred from American graduates to foreigners via the huge university-backed Optional Practical Training (OPT) program, which is often described as the younger version of the H-1B program. The agency “is currently unable to evaluate the impact OPT has had on U.S. workers and foreign students who have obtained work authorization through the programs,�...