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	JR Raphael: Android 4.0 report card: Which manufacturers are failing? Android 4.0, Ice Cream Sandwich, has been rolling out to devices since December -- but many phone and tablet owners are still waiting for a taste. So which companies deserve our wrath? 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 In this Issue As 60th anniversary nears, tape reinvents itself New iPad shortchanges users on battery life, says expert Charting H-1B users, as attention shifts to L-1 Apple confirms imprecise iPad battery meter, says it's by design Printer ink: Tired of feeding the cash cow? Congress urged to secure drone law 8 cool tools for data analysis, visualization and presentation India's IT firms hire U.S. workers as they fight for visas Preston Gralla: Microsoft's secret weapon against Google Maps --- open source RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Hosting.com What if your key applications FAIL? Build for 100% application availability in the Cloud with Microsoft SQL Server. Achieve the highest levels of availability, performance, scalability, and security for your mission-critical applications while minimizing cost. Learn more at the April 12 webinar from Microsoft and Hosting.com subject matter experts. Register now! As 60th anniversary nears, tape reinvents itself Digital tape media will turn 60 in May, and while tape sales are on the decline, new open file specifications like LTFS and new markets could revive tape for the long term. Read More New iPad shortchanges users on battery life, says expert Apple is shortchanging new iPad owners on battery power, an analyst said today. Read More Charting H-1B users, as attention shifts to L-1 Offshore outsourcing firms rely heavily on H-1B visas, and the chart here provides comprehensive data on the top H-1B users from 2009-2011 -- though it doesn't tell the whole story. Read More Apple confirms imprecise iPad battery meter, says it's by design Apple today reacted to reports that the new iPad under-reports its battery status, saying a researcher's analysis was essentially correct but that that's how the tablet and its iOS software were designed. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Amazon Web Services Why Run Windows Server Apps on AWS? Top 5 Reasons: 1. No New Hardware, 2. Get Started in Minutes, 3. Use Your .NET Skills in the AWS Cloud, 4. On-Demand Test Environments, and 5. Use your Existing Microsoft Licenses. Learn more with on-demand webinar. Watch now! Printer ink: Tired of feeding the cash cow? Today a feature-rich inkjet printer can be had for a price that seems astonishingly low -- until the ink runs out. Read More Congress urged to secure drone law A leading rights advocacy group this week called on Congress to add civil liberties protections to a recently passed law that opens U.S. airspace to unmanned aerial vehicles. Read More 8 cool tools for data analysis, visualization and presentation Data crunching can be useful for a wide range of analyses; we look at 8 tools that can make it easier to sort your numbers and show them off to their best advantage. Read More India's IT firms hire U.S. workers as they fight for visas India's IT companies have been lobbying U.S. officials to improve access to work visas by touting the fact that they are hiring more U.S. workers. Read More Preston Gralla: Microsoft's secret weapon against Google Maps --- open source One of the many areas where Google is far ahead of Microsoft is mapping, with Google Maps by far the dominant map service on the Internet. Microsoft is employing an under-the-radar approach to fighting back, lending big support and big dollars to the open source map project OpenStreetMap. It looks as if the tactic is starting to pay off. Read More
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