Onslaught of job applicants prompts ports to use lottery
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LOS ANGELES - When more than 30,000 people applied for 3,000 jobs on the docks of Los Angeles and Long Beach, a 40-year-old bus driver with six kids was right there among them.
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The Massachusetts Lottery, already struggling to reach this year's revenue targets, is having trouble selling tickets for its new $20 sweepstakes.
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If the load of application relies on incoming events, you may eventually face the happy curse of popularity: too much work to do with your available resources. If you set a limit on how many events you can process within a time period, you can avoid the flood. Vladi Belperchinov-Shabanski explains the algorithm and demonstrates working code.
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By Stephanie Armour  As the job market heats up, interest in online business networking is starting to soar -- turning a one-time novelty into a necessity for millions of business professionals in search of jobs or business contacts.
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Targeted phishing attacks aiming to plant malware on corporate networks are going out to companies that have posted job openings on CareerBuilder.com, according to reports from one affected party.
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Recruiters and HR leaders find online job sites effective in filling openings, despite complaints that they generate too many unqualified applicants. Only employee referral programs got higher marks, while print advertising trailed the pack.
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A job recruitment Web site is offering to pay top workers for interviewing with companies.
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The chance to save a buck to cross the Bay Area&#39;s state-owned bridges persuaded tens of thousands of motorists to sign up for FasTrak, Caltrans&#39; electronic toll collection system, in the last four months.
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PEORIA, Ill. -- The 37-year-old computer science student was racing against a deadline. Just one day after picking up his visa from the U.S. Embassy in Qatar, he boarded a plane with his wife and five small children. The family flew to Chicago, caught a night's sleep at an airport hotel, then...
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Planners have been inundated with a flood of applications for new housing developments.
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And Computer Associates too Tens of thousands of websites belonging to Fortune 500 corporations, state government agencies and schools have been infected with malicious code that attempts to engage in click fraud and steal online game credentials from people who visit the destinations, security researches say.â¦
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Online job service is taking steps to prevent further attacks on its databases.
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The Planning Service is inundated with a flood of applications for new housing developments.
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THE days of massive metropolitan call centres with hundreds of employees are numbered, according to a maverick call centre entrepreneur.
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Posts on Craigslist offer a host of options for those unable or unwilling to wait in line for the coveted device.
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Italians have played lottery games for centuries. Now the state-run business is ported to the web to save a trip to the cafe to buy tickets, but that doesn't mean it's easier to play. Nicole Martinelli reports from Milan.
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WALTHAM, Mass.--IBM is ramping up its recruitment efforts with application companies in an effort to make an emerging distributed computing technology, called grid computing, pervasive in corporations.