But many U.S. members of Congress contend India is misusing the H-1B system to bring in fairly low-skilled employees, denying those places to higher-skilled workers that U.S. firms want to hire.

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On a smaller scale, Shark Multimedia's new Leopard USB modem is a pocket-size external modem that also operates with any H.324 video phone system.

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The mutated form of a gene called complement factor H may cause the immune system to go awry, resulting in too much inflammation in the eye.

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Google continues to support H.264 in its Android mobile operating system and will likely will probably continue to serve thousands upon thousands of videos in H.264 via YouTube.

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Windows pricing for PC makers refers to the average price that Microsoft charges for its Windows Operating System to PC manufacturers like H-P and Dell.

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This has been done with thousands of the patents involved in the H.264 video encoding format, so that operating system makers wishing to make use of the codec pay a 20 cent (13p) charge per sale to cover the rights-holders claims without having to negotiate with each one.

BBC: Tech firms and regulators meet at UN patent pow-wow

This year, USCIS and immigration lawyers expect such a high demand for H-1B visas that the agency may need to rely on a lottery system.

CNN: Give more visas to foreign-born workers

The immune system is "phenomenally complicated, " says oncologist Jeffrey Weber of the H.

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At issue in the U.S. are high-skill worker visas called H-1B that have been dubbed the "outsourcing visa" by critics who say the system allows companies to bring in cheaper tech workers from abroad instead of hiring Americans.

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