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	House set to vote again on STEM visas For a second time in as many months, U.S. House Republicans will try to win approval of legislation to issue up to 55,000 so STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) visas to students who earn advanced degrees at U.S. universities. Read More WEBCAST: LogiXML Enhance Transparency in Private Equity & Alternatives Learn how Neuberger Berman met growing customer demand by enhancing reporting. Using agile BI technology, the company was able to quickly build an on-demand portal enabling investors to view real-time indicators such as Net Asset Value, diversification, and geographic performance. Learn More. In this Issue The Petraeus scandal and computer ethics Samsung announces measures to tackle labor violations by Chinese suppliers Look at worker-types, not device-types for mobile deployment WEBCAST: APC by Schneider Electric Strategies for Managing Distributed IT Environments Protecting your network architecture continues to be extremely critical. Distributed networking and computing spaces often times go unmanaged. Learn more about the importance of managing these distributed IT spaces including strategies for maintaining availability and energy cost savings opportunities. Learn more. The Petraeus scandal and computer ethics Last week Gen. David Petraeus, the director of the Central Intelligence Agency, resigned in response to what has turned out to be a much bigger scandal than it first appeared. Read More WHITE PAPER: Verizon Leading the Revolution of Device Independence As employees bring their own devices to work, employers must respond with effective strategies to secure and manage a plethora of new devices containing business-critical data. A Computerworld QuickPoll survey found approximately four in 10 smartphones and tablet devices in the enterprise are owned by employees. Learn More Samsung announces measures to tackle labor violations by Chinese suppliers Samsung Electronics announced new measures to keep its suppliers in China compliant with labor laws after it completed a round of audits that found problems relating to overtime and the way penalties were carried out. Read More Look at worker-types, not device-types for mobile deployment The mobile device is causing just as big a change in ways of working at the beginning of this century as the internet was at the end of the last century, says Kevin Noonan, consultant with Ovum. Read More
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