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	Trying to fill 6,000 jobs, Microsoft pitches $10,000 H-1B visa With the recession hit in 2008, Congress put the idea of a "skills shortage" and a need for more H-1B visas in a closet. This didn't mean that interest in raising the H-1B cap went away for good. Read More WHITE PAPER: HP & Intel Strategic Guide to Converged Infrastructure In addition to other valuable information, this Computerworld guide contains a step-by-step example of how to converge a typical mid-size data center. Read more now. Read Now! In this Issue Disk drive shipments rebound from Thai floods Vote now: What's on your 2012 holiday shopping or wish list? Update: RIM posts Q2 loss of $235M, beats expectations Clover Trail tablets pitched as workplace-friendly SAP NetWeaver Cloud platform as a service release could be soon Scala upgrade improves tooling, sheds runtime overhead Microsoft calls for $5B investment in U.S. education Google to block YouTube video in Brazil after losing court appeal Facebook-Datalogix deal may skirt privacy promises Shark Tank: Back to school RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Hortonworks Live Webinar Series: The Future of Apache Hadoop Hadoop has evolved rapidly to become the leading platform for managing, processing and analyzing big data. Join us in this 4-part series with the core committers of the Apache Hadoop projects to gain insight into Pig, Ambari, Zookeeper and YARN. Learn use-cases and best practices on how to get started with Hadoop and live Q&A. Register now! Disk drive shipments rebound from Thai floods A year after a flooding disaster in Thailand took out a large portion of hard disk drive production, the industry has fully recovered with shipments to the computer market expected to hit a record level this year. Read More Vote now: What's on your 2012 holiday shopping or wish list? Computerworld wants to know: What type of tech gear do you most want to give or receive as a holiday present this year? Let us know by taking our quick poll. We'll focus on the most popular product types in our 2012 holiday gift guide. Read More Update: RIM posts Q2 loss of $235M, beats expectations Research In Motion reported a net loss of $235 million for the second quarter on revenues of $2.9 billion. Read More Clover Trail tablets pitched as workplace-friendly Some of the tablet makers at a launch event for Intel's "Clover Trail" processor emphasized the business smarts of their products as a way to distinguish them from Apple's market-leading iPad. Read More SAP NetWeaver Cloud platform as a service release could be soon SAP could be close to announcing the general availability of its foray into the PaaS (platform-as-a-service) market, NetWeaver Cloud, which will go up against rival offerings from the likes of Oracle and Salesforce.com. Read More WHITE PAPER: Framehawk Making Sense of the Work-Personal Device Blur BYOD brings some concerns, blurring the line between personal and corporate use raises security, compliance, and ownership issues. Does the BYOD trend actually make workers more productive, or is IT simply caving in to employee demand? Read Now! Scala upgrade improves tooling, sheds runtime overhead Scala, a prominent, statically typed language for the Java Virtual Machine, will be fitted with improvements for classes, asynchronous programming, and development tools as part of an upgrade due soon. Read More Microsoft calls for $5B investment in U.S. education Congress should invest $5 billion in the country's education system -- particularly in math, science and technology education -- over the next 10 years and pay for it with increased fees on high-skill immigration, a Microsoft executive said. Read More Google to block YouTube video in Brazil after losing court appeal Google said it had no choice but to block a political video in Brazil, after it lost a court appeal. Read More Facebook-Datalogix deal may skirt privacy promises Two privacy watchdogs filed a joint letter with the Federal Trade Commission on Thursday alleging Facebook may already be skirting an agreement to be more clear over how it handles user data. Read More Shark Tank: Back to school This nursing school's fall registration includes a visit by each student to the IT department to collect the login information they'll need for the year -- and as soon as registration ends, IT's phones start ringing. Read More
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