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	Data analytics driving medical breakthroughs Big data and other technologies are poised to start saving lives and enhancing quality of life for sick patients. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: VeriSign VeriSign SSL, now from Symantec. We're moving beyond the standard SSL. Added features now include Vulnerability assessment, Malware scans & Seal-in-Search. Provide more robust security functionality to your website while protecting your customers with VeriSign SSL, now from Symantec. Click to learn more! In this Issue Two personal scanners: NeatDesk vs. Xerox Mobile Scanner E-voting system awards election to wrong candidates in Florida village IEEE says L-1 visa not intended for outsourcers Freescale BYOD plan finds happy users IT investments deliver profits, study finds Path tightens mobile app security Sprint offers LG Viper on LTE for $100 INSIDER Robert L. Mitchell: Survey: Cobol noose tightening From CIO.com: 20 iPad business apps every CIO should want Darragh Delaney: 5 tips for managing remote data centers Geolocation apps draw users, despite privacy concerns Facebook fires back at Yahoo, says it infringed 10 patents RIM accused by NXP of infringing six patents Facebook to help third parties use location-related data IT Blogwatch: Nokia Lumia 900 review roundup 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! Two personal scanners: NeatDesk vs. Xerox Mobile Scanner Two scanners, the NeatDesk and the Xerox Mobile Scanner, offer simple ways to digitize and store a variety of paper documents. Read More E-voting system awards election to wrong candidates in Florida village An optical scan vote tallying system, now used by some 300 U.S. municipalities, misreported the results of a Palm Beach County, Florida, municipal election last month. Read More IEEE says L-1 visa not intended for outsourcers This week, the U.S. began accepting H-1B applications for the next fiscal year. But the real battle is over the L-1 visa, and this fight just got bigger. Read More Freescale BYOD plan finds happy users Freescale Semiconductor has responded to pressure from workers by implementing a BYOD infrastructure and a collaborative internal network that rewards people for new ideas. Read More IT investments deliver profits, study finds IT departments can have a big impact on a firm's profits, more than similar spending on R&D and some marketing endeavors, according to a new study. Read More Path tightens mobile app security Social networking service Path has upgraded the security of its mobile application in apparent response to a recent outcry over its data gathering practices. Read More Sprint offers LG Viper on LTE for $100 The LG Viper 4G LTE smartphone will be available for pre-order April 12 with a price tag of $99.99, and a two-year service agreement and rebate, Sprint said. 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 INSIDER Robert L. Mitchell: Survey: Cobol noose tightening This year more IT organizations say they're seeing a Cobol talent shortage, and the number of programmers nearing retirement has spiked since our last survey on the subject. Insider (registration required) Read More From CIO.com: 20 iPad business apps every CIO should want iPad apps for sales forces, IT departments and more. Read More Darragh Delaney: 5 tips for managing remote data centers Over at the Ethergeek blog last week, Josh Stephens had an interesting piece on the challenges of finding experts with data center expertise. Another trend that I see is the centralization of IT staff to main data centers. Read More Geolocation apps draw users, despite privacy concerns Nearly 60% of smartphone users employ apps that access their location data despite having concerns about risks to their privacy and even personal safety, according to a survey conducted by ISACA, a nonprofit group that focuses on risk and security management. Read More Facebook fires back at Yahoo, says it infringed 10 patents Facebook has denied Yahoo's claims of patent infringement and shot back with counterclaims that Yahoo infringed 10 Facebook patents. Read More RIM accused by NXP of infringing six patents Research In Motion has been accused of infringing six patents owned by NXP in a lawsuit filed in a U.S. federal court in Florida. Read More Facebook to help third parties use location-related data Facebook will soon add place objects to its Open Graph API, making it easier for third-party developers to link their data about locations such as concert venues to Facebook users' personal posts. Read More IT Blogwatch: Nokia Lumia 900 review roundup The Nokia Lumia 900 reviews are in. And they're mostly positive, especially about the free/$100 price. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers at Engadget, PCWorld, Ars, and The Verge log their thoughts. Read More
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