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Cognizant See where we can take you> In this Issue Windows 8 lets users decide which IE opens links Telus links social, traditional training USC students turn to mobile apps for online classes AT&T to sell Lumia 900 for $100, starting April 8 Institute's mobile apps are built by hands of those with autism Bull seeks to move Cobol and C apps to Java From CIO.com: J.C Penney Slashes CIO Role HP seeks pretrial ruling in Itanium lawsuit against Oracle Facebook claims evidence to prove Ceglia forged contract Apple's CEO meets with Beijing's mayor, calls for cooperation HTC to shut Sense backup services Apple criticized for omitting factory workers from cash pile IBM CIO discusses Big Blue's BYOD strategy IT Blogwatch: Grandma sues Apple; Evelyn Paswall loses fight with glass RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Hosting.com 100% Application Availability in the Cloud Optimize your infrastructure for mission-critical applications while minimizing costs. Powered by Microsoft SQL Server and Hosting.com. Availability--Performance--Scalability--Security. Guaranteed. Learn more at the April 12 webinar from Microsoft and Hosting.com subject matter experts. Register now! Windows 8 lets users decide which IE opens links Windows 8 users will be able to set which version of Internet Explorer 10 automatically opens Web pages when links are clicked, Microsoft said Monday. Read More Telus links social, traditional training When major Canadian telecommunications company wanted to change how it handles employee training, it turned to social networking. INSIDER (registration required) Read More USC students turn to mobile apps for online classes With many colleges offering online classes as part of their curricula, students are increasingly turning to mobile devices to supplement live sessions with teachers and classmates alike. Read More AT&T to sell Lumia 900 for $100, starting April 8 The first real test for Nokia in North America will come April 8, the day AT&T announces it will start selling the Lumia 900. Read More Institute's mobile apps are built by hands of those with autism The connection between adults with autism and computer programming has become the basis of a unique nonprofit technology company in Texas. Read More Bull seeks to move Cobol and C apps to Java Bull has unveiled a new transaction processing application platform, Libert TP, which it says will allow businesses to move legacy applications from Cobol or C to a Java environment at their own pace. Read More From CIO.com: J.C Penney Slashes CIO Role In January, the J.C Penney Company introduced Kristen E. Blum as its CTO. This month, the retailer eliminated its CIO in a move to, according to a company memo, 'ensure we have the right structures to ensure efficiency and productivity.' Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: EMC Transform End User Computing Turn to EMC to bring new simplicity, power, and efficiency to end user computing-any user, any device, anywhere. Click to continue HP seeks pretrial ruling in Itanium lawsuit against Oracle Hewlett-Packard filed Monday for a pretrial ruling that Oracle is contractually required to offer future versions of its software on the Itanium platform, claiming that an agreement between HP and Intel ensured that the Itanium was not an end-of-life processor as claimed by Oracle. Read More Facebook claims evidence to prove Ceglia forged contract Facebook claimed it found on the computers of Paul D. Ceglia the original StreetFax contract which had assigned work to its founder Mark Zuckerberg, while a work order that Ceglia claimed as the basis for his ownership of a stake in Facebook was allegedly a forgery. Read More Apple's CEO meets with Beijing's mayor, calls for cooperation Apple's CEO Tim Cook met with Beijing's mayor on Monday, and called for increased cooperation with China's capital city along with market expansion, according to a report from Chinese state-run press. Read More HTC to shut Sense backup services HTC plans to shut down its HTCsense.com cloud backup services on April 30 in preparation for the launch of "new and improved services," it said on its website. Read More Apple criticized for omitting factory workers from cash pile A watchdog group issued a renewed call for Apple to address what this group considers poor working conditions for factory workers in China, criticizing the company for not assigning any of its US$98 billion cash pile to address the issues. Read More IBM CIO discusses Big Blue's BYOD strategy IBM CIO Jeanette Horan has plenty of IT projects and systems to worry about, but perhaps one of the most pressing and timely is Big Blue's ongoing BYOD (bring your own device) rollout, which is aimed at including all of the company's 440,000 employees over time. Read More IT Blogwatch: Grandma sues Apple; Evelyn Paswall loses fight with glass An 83-year-old grandmother is suing Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) after she was badly injured at an Apple Store. She allegedly walked into an 'invisible' glass door because of Apple's negligence. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers see through her complaint. Not to mention: What's LG advertising?.. Read More
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