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	IT workers with heart More and more companies are offering paid time off to employees who want to volunteer, either on company-sponsored initiatives or at a charity or agency of their own choosing. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Datawatch Corporation Monarch 11 report analytics, download the free trial today Monarch 11 Report Analytics provides business users with a self-service environment to create dynamic, enterprise-wide analytical solutions from existing static reports & business documents. Monarch 11 users can easily report on data from ERP Reports, text files, html files, PDFs & semi-structured content, transforming data into high performance reports. In this Issue Microsoft spells out Office for Mac bugs in Lion Drug maker goes social to end supply chain crisis Russia steps up game in supercomputing House Republicans consider high-skills immigration bill Elgan: Why Twitter is obsolete Update: Oracle ordered to lower damages claim against Google From CIO.com: 7 Best Cities to Find IT Jobs in 2011 Mozilla hustles to handle demise of Google Toolbar for Firefox SAP hopes partners will rev up mobile apps sales Chip makers downplay tablets' impact on PC sales IBM speeds storage with flash: 10B files in 43 minutes Most Mac OS X Lion upgrades going well, however ... Jonny Evans: Apple iOS 5 beta hints Nuance voice recog for iPhone 5 IT Blogwatch: China shuts down fake Apple "Stoers" in Kunming RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: SAP The Real-time Value of BI Today's top performing organizations have developed a strategy to manage growth in data volume & complexity while exploiting that data to create quicker business insight. Learn how best-in-class companies are delivering broader access to information in a shorter timeframe to facilitate substantial improvement in key business performance metrics. Click to continue Microsoft spells out Office for Mac bugs in Lion Microsoft last week confirmed that customers running Office for Mac will experience problems with the suite on Apple's new Lion operating system. Read More Drug maker goes social to end supply chain crisis Generic drug maker Ratiopharm, now part of Teva Canada, turned to social networking tools to solve communication problems that choked the supply chain and made it difficult to respond to fluctuations in customer demand. Read More Russia steps up game in supercomputing Russia's profile in supercomputing is being raised thanks to a Moscow-based company and a Russian president who sees high-performance computing as critical to the nation's future. Read More House Republicans consider high-skills immigration bill The negotiations to strike a deal on the debt ceiling may be getting all the attention in Congress, but there are also new efforts by lawmakers to address high-skill immigration issues. Read More Elgan: Why Twitter is obsolete All of a sudden, Twitter is unnecessary, outdated, overvalued and headed for the ash heap of abandoned social services. It has been rendered obsolete by Google+, writes columnist Mike Elgan. Read More Update: Oracle ordered to lower damages claim against Google Oracle has been ordered to lower its multibillion-dollar claim for damages in its patent infringement lawsuit against Google and its Android operating system, court papers show. Read More From CIO.com: 7 Best Cities to Find IT Jobs in 2011 CIO.com and IT staffing firm Modis show you which urban IT job markets are hot, the industries in those cities that are hiring, and the IT skills those companies are seeking. Read More WHITE PAPER: Mimecast Cloud-based Email Archiving: A practical guide Many companies are tackling the challenge of email archiving head-on with cloud-based solutions that scale to business growth, conform to regulatory mandates, and deliver low operational costs. We suggest a solution that emphasizes scalable cloud-base storage, secure access and high availability. Read now Mozilla hustles to handle demise of Google Toolbar for Firefox Mozilla is scrambling to deal with Google's decision to drop the Google Toolbar for Firefox, according to notes on Mozilla's website. Read More SAP hopes partners will rev up mobile apps sales Thousands of SAP partners who sell the Business All-in-One ERP suite and Business Objects analytics software can now also offer customers Sybase mobile technology and applications. Read More Chip makers downplay tablets' impact on PC sales The post-PC era is not yet upon us, executives from Intel and Advanced Micro Devices insisted this week in conference calls to discuss their earnings, where the impact of tablets on their businesses was the big question. Read More IBM speeds storage with flash: 10B files in 43 minutes With an eye toward helping tomorrow's data-deluged organizations, IBM researchers have created a super-fast storage system capable of scanning in 10 billion files in 43 minutes. Read More Most Mac OS X Lion upgrades going well, however ... Overall, most Mac users upgrading to the new Lion version of Mac OS X seem to be doing so with minimal problems. There's still ongoing debate about whether Lion, which introduces concepts and features from Apple's mobile iOS platform, really roars. Read More Jonny Evans: Apple iOS 5 beta hints Nuance voice recog for iPhone 5 Even as we get to grips with OS X Lion, there's even more speculation about the voice recognition and personal assistance features we can all look forward to in iOS 5, when your iPhone will begin to seriously augment your life, thanks to Nuance and Apple's purchase of Siri last year. Read More IT Blogwatch: China shuts down fake Apple "Stoers" in Kunming Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) is pondering what to, following recent revelations of fake Apple Stores in Kunming, China. Local government has closed down two of them, but three remain. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers marvel at the dodgy reproductions. Read More
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