IT jobs will grow 22% through 2020, says U.S.

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	IT jobs will grow 22% through 2020, says U.S. U.S. officials Thursday said that offshoring will hurt the growth of programming jobs in in this decade, though expansion of health care IT and mobile networks will increase demand for software developers, technical support and system analysts. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: CIO Perspective IT + Marketing = Socially Awkward? With the rise of social media and new marketing technologies, the timing seems ideal for IT and marketing to join forces, yet the two seem to be growing farther apart. Hear suggestions for how IT and marketing organizations can create a better relationship and improve their joint innovation efforts at CIO Perspectives NY! Click to continue In this Issue Apple supplier Foxconn hit on poor working conditions Researchers smash Kelihos botnet with dose of its own poison IT execs must deal soon with worker use of social tools Google ships Chrome 18, patches bugs and boosts hardware acceleration From CIO.com: Strategic Guide to Enterprise Mobile Applications White House launches big data R&D effort Half of all U.S. mobile phones are smartphones: Nielsen iPad's Australia problem exposes LTE roaming issues RIM attacks Apple's nano-SIM tactics Oracle buys ClearTrial for clinical trials software Malware infects Macs through Microsoft Office vulnerability Refurbished Kindle Fire $139 today; Firmware update available now Yahoo to implement do-not-track worldwide this year Amazon Web Services updates Linux implementation Preston Gralla: Android devices will surge past PC sales, lead world in 2016, says IDC Jean-Marc Seguin: How to architect your virtual infrastructure for private cloud success Jonny Evans: New Apple MacBook Pros enter production as post-PC changes IT JR Raphael: Google: Ice Cream Sandwich reaching more devices 'in the coming weeks' 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! Apple supplier Foxconn hit on poor working conditions An investigation by the Fair Labor Association into factories operated by Apple supplier Foxconn in China found poor working conditions and worker abuse, leading Foxconn to pledge it will make improvements. Read More Researchers smash Kelihos botnet with dose of its own poison Security researchers from four different organizations last week brought down a botnet by turning a supposed strength of the criminals' spamming network into a fatal weakness. Read More IT execs must deal soon with worker use of social tools Corporate IT executives and analysts offer advice on dealing with the increased worker use of social networks for business purposes. Read More Google ships Chrome 18, patches bugs and boosts hardware acceleration Google yesterday patched nine vulnerabilities in Chrome and boosted the speed and reach of the browser's hardware acceleration with the launch of version 18. Read More From CIO.com: Strategic Guide to Enterprise Mobile Applications Download our ebook for advice from peers about how to create a mobile apps strategy, identify the key challenges and build an enterprise app store. Read More White House launches big data R&D effort Six U.S. government agencies will spend more than $200 million to help the government better organize and analyze large volumes of digital data, in a new "big data" research and development effort announced by President Barack Obama's administration Thursday. Read More Half of all U.S. mobile phones are smartphones: Nielsen About half of the mobile phones used in the U.S. are smartphones, according to a Nielsen survey. Read More iPad's Australia problem exposes LTE roaming issues The controversy over Apple's iPad 3 not working on Australian LTE networks may be just one signal of problems ahead for international LTE roaming. Read More RIM attacks Apple's nano-SIM tactics Research In Motion has sent a letter to a standards group complaining about Apple's tactics in the battle over the upcoming nano-SIM standard, joining Nokia in trying to shed doubt over Apple's efforts. 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! Oracle buys ClearTrial for clinical trials software Oracle has acquired ClearTrial, which offers cloud-based applications that help companies run clinical trials of new drugs. Terms of the deal, which is expected to close in the first half of this year, were not disclosed. Read More Malware infects Macs through Microsoft Office vulnerability Security researchers have encountered new email-based targeted attacks that exploit a vulnerability in Microsoft Office to install a remote access Trojan horse program on Mac OS systems. Read More Refurbished Kindle Fire $139 today; Firmware update available now For today only, Amazon's Kindle Fire is cheaper than ever, with refurbished models on sale for $139. Read More Yahoo to implement do-not-track worldwide this year Yahoo websites worldwide will comply with visitors' "do not track" preferences starting later this year, Yahoo announced Wednesday. Read More Amazon Web Services updates Linux implementation Amazon Web Services has upgraded the Linux image that runs in its cloud to include newer versions of Tomcat, MySQL and Python, while at the same time allowing enterprises to stay on older versions, the company said in a blog post on Wednesday. Read More Preston Gralla: Android devices will surge past PC sales, lead world in 2016, says IDC If you needed any more evidence that the post-PC world will be soon upon us, a new report from IDC says that by 2016, Android devices will surge past Windows PCs to make Android the world's dominant operating system. Read More Jean-Marc Seguin: How to architect your virtual infrastructure for private cloud success In our last installment on the benefits of private cloud computing, we discussed the importance of determining where you are today on your road to private cloud and how you got there. Once your IT team has determined this, you can begin examining areas specific to your virtual infrastructure to ensure that you architect it for success. Read More Jonny Evans: New Apple MacBook Pros enter production as post-PC changes IT Apple is said to be ramping up production of next-generation MacBook Pros in 13-inch and 15-inch configurations as it prepares to upgrade its notebooks across May/June, even while the post-PC age changes the shape of IT. Read More JR Raphael: Google: Ice Cream Sandwich reaching more devices 'in the coming weeks' Google says it's in the process of sending an Android 4.0 upgrade to several of its phones and tablets and will be rolling the software out to even more devices in the weeks to come. Read More
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