Columnists’ corner: In Reality Check, Ephraim Schwartz tries to make sense of the controversy surrounding the Department of Labor, which some say is essentially hiding approximately 50,000 IT job postings. Programmers Guild president Kim Berry says the DOL “is refusing to disclose the opening to U.S. citizens so that they may have equal opportunity to apply for and fill these jobs.” Whether you’re a U.S. citizen or an H1-B visa holder, you will probably learn a thing or two from Bob Lewis’ latest entry, in which he responds to a reader who was rejected for a job because of a “fair” credit rating. Best of the blogs: Ed Foster writes in The Gripe Line that “a right we’ve had for more than a hundred years is about to disappear.” A reader was threatened by a software company when it found out she was trying to sell a piece of used software. The vendor threw its EULA at her, which one attorney in the story says may be overwriting federal copyright law, and overextending the vendor’s rights. The news beat: BEA plans to add collaboration software to its stack by acquiring portal vendor Plumtree, WiMax testing draws closer, and Sarbanes-Oxley is seen as the potentially biggest IT time waster in a poll taken prior to IBM’s user group conference. Hot Review: The InfoWorld Test Center looks at security products from CheckPoint and SonicWall, in Big security power in small packages. Technology Industry