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	HP cuts workforce by 5%; looks to probe GM hires Hewlett-Packard's reduced its workforce last year by 17,800 employees, more than half-way to its restructuring goal. Read More WEBCAST: APC by Schneider Electric Strategies for Managing Distributed IT Environments Protecting your network architecture continues to be extremely critical. Distributed networking and computing spaces often times go unmanaged. Learn more about the importance of managing these distributed IT spaces including strategies for maintaining availability and energy cost savings opportunities. Learn more. In this Issue Update: Windows 8's early uptake lags behind Vista's Apple crafting bigger iPhone in multiple colors for June, says analyst Congress extends R&D, wind tax credits in 'fiscal cliff' deal 2012: The tech year in cartoons Kia integrates Google Maps, voice search into 2014 Sorento 120-plus heads of state using Twitter, study says HP says it may sell assets that underperform Tech luminaries we lost in 2012 Imation buys solid-state storage vendor Nexsan Canonical prepares Ubuntu for smartphones Toshiba developing Lytro-like phone camera with over 30,000 mini-lenses US ITC judge rules against Motorola in dispute with Apple Tobii set to sell PC eye-control add-on to developers Making games of enterprise software Preston Gralla: New evidence shows that Windows 8 sales are bleak Jonny Evans: TSMC gets Apple's iPad chip production as iPhone 6 plans kick into view Leigh Jasper: 5 key collaboration trends for 2013 Nicholas D. Evans: 10 CIO considerations for disruptive trends in 2013 WHITE PAPER: Verizon Leading the Revolution of Device Independence As employees bring their own devices to work, employers must respond with effective strategies to secure and manage a plethora of new devices containing business-critical data. A Computerworld QuickPoll survey found approximately four in 10 smartphones and tablet devices in the enterprise are owned by employees. Learn More Update: Windows 8's early uptake lags behind Vista's Final online usage numbers for 2012 released Tuesday confirmed that Windows 8 failed to match Windows Vista's uptake pace during its first two months. Read More Apple crafting bigger iPhone in multiple colors for June, says analyst Apple will launch the next iPhone in May or June 2013, offering a swath of colors and multiple screen sizes in a move that would depart from a six-year practice, a Wall Street analyst said today. Read More Congress extends R&D, wind tax credits in 'fiscal cliff' deal The fiscal cliff deal in Congress extended the R&D tax credit, but, once again, sidestepped any move to make it permanent. Read More 2012: The tech year in cartoons From SOPA to the Petraeus affair, here's a look at some of the year's biggest IT stories from the pen of Computerworld's editorial cartoonist, John Klossner. Read More Kia integrates Google Maps, voice search into 2014 Sorento Google and Kia Motors America jointly announced Wednesday a deal to integrate Google Maps and Google Places into Kia automobiles. Read More 120-plus heads of state using Twitter, study says There were 123 heads of state and governments using Twitter to communicate with citizens and the rest of the world as of December 2012, a think tank said Tuesday. Read More HP says it may sell assets that underperform Hewlett-Packard will continue to evaluate potential divestitures of underperforming parts of its business, and the process could get messy, the company warned its investors in its annual 10-K document, which was filed in late December. Read More Tech luminaries we lost in 2012 A look back at the lives and contributions of 13 technology pioneers, including Ray Bradbury, Sally Ride and David L. Waltz, who passed away in 2012. See some of the luminaries featured in video interviews; others in photographs. Read More Imation buys solid-state storage vendor Nexsan Imation, a storage and data security company, has acquired Nexsan, a vendor of disk-based storage systems, in a deal worth about US$120 million, the company announced. Read More WEBCAST: IBM How to Take Business Analytics to the Next Level By viewing this webcast you will learn how you can implement an effective BA strategy that will deliver maximum strategic value to your company. View Now Canonical prepares Ubuntu for smartphones Further expanding from its core mission of providing Linux distributions for desktop computers and servers, Canonical is developing a version of Ubuntu for smartphones. Read More Toshiba developing Lytro-like phone camera with over 30,000 mini-lenses Toshiba is developing a tiny digital camera module similar to the Lytro camera, which shoots tens of thousands of individual photos and then allows the user to pick the point of focus. Read More US ITC judge rules against Motorola in dispute with Apple An administrative law judge at the U.S. International Trade Commission has ruled that Apple did not violate a Motorola Mobility patent relating to a sensor controlled user interface for a portable communication device. Read More Tobii set to sell PC eye-control add-on to developers Tobii Technology will soon start shipping a device that allows users to control a PC using their eyes. Developers will be able to buy the REX next week, and Tobii will make it more widely available in the second half of the year, the company said Wednesday Read More Making games of enterprise software Thanks to computers and the Internet, everyone is playing games these days. Read More Preston Gralla: New evidence shows that Windows 8 sales are bleak There's new evidence that sales of Windows 8 devices remain lackluster at best, so much so that Fujitsu, a key Microsoft hardware partner, has complained about weak sales. This isn't the way that Microsoft drew things up when it designed the new operating system. Read More Jonny Evans: TSMC gets Apple's iPad chip production as iPhone 6 plans kick into view Apple begins its 2013 ramp-up with new processor supplier, TSMC, which has seized the lucrative manufacturing contract for iDevice mobile processor the A6X -- the chip used inside the latest iPads. With Samsung falling out the Apple movie, analysts predict "enormous product upgrade cycle" to come. Read More Leigh Jasper: 5 key collaboration trends for 2013 In my predictions of major collaboration trends for 2012 (part one and part two), I highlighted big data, social and mobile, and cloud and mobile. Clearly, these trends will continue to evolve through 2013 and beyond. In my outlook for the coming year, I'd like to offer a perspective on five new directions that these trends are likely to take. Read More Nicholas D. Evans: 10 CIO considerations for disruptive trends in 2013 With predictions season well upon us, here are ten CIO considerations with regard to the disruptive IT trends in 2013. Rather than predictions per se, these are simply underlying considerations, and in some cases, challenges that CIOs might expect to encounter whilst continuing to leverage the disruptive trends for strategic business benefit across their organizations. Read More
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