The data shows: Top H-1B users are offshore outsourcers

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	The data shows: Top H-1B users are offshore outsourcers The largest single users of H-1B visas are offshore outsourcers, many of which are based in India, or, if U.S. based, have most employees located overseas, according to government data obtained and analyzed by Computerworld. Read More WHITE PAPER: Service-now.com Drive More Value from Your IT Assets You can make your life simpler when you automate your entire IT Asset Management (ITAM) lifecycle and Software Asset Management (SAM) in one system of record. You'll also reduce costs, eliminate wasted resources, improve compliance, mitigate security risks, and drive standardization. Read Now! In this Issue Privacy groups protest CISPA bill Microsoft patches IE with record-setting updates to prep browser for Pwn2Own Facebook may be the third wheel in your relationship Apple takes blame for iOS 6.1-Exchange battery-draining bug, promises patch Sound waves used to increase disk drive capacity Opera's WebKit move gives it shot at iOS market Google keeps Bing, Yahoo at bay in search business Higgs hunt halts with CERN collider down for two-year upgrade Lawmakers, business execs defend privacy in CISPA Verizon warns users of high risk apps, and also lists must-have apps Startup creates Yelp-like site for business apps Opinion: Should you risk jailbreaking your iPhone? Samsung takes aim at emerging markets with REX phones Adobe confirms zero-day exploit bypasses Adobe Reader sandbox Alcatel-Lucent hopes to make data plans more flexible JR Raphael: 5 fresh Android apps worth adding to your arsenal Preston Gralla: More evidence that Windows Phone is hot on the heels of Blackberry Stuart Kippelman: Projects, errors, the user experience and planning in 2013 Jonny Evans: Fantasy: Apple, don't make an 'iCar' -- an 'iBike' makes much more sense WHITE PAPER: CDW Corporation The Red Report: Managing Both Your Data and Your Sanity Leverage proven storage expertise to objectively assess your environment and review your options for unified storage, data deduplication, storage tiering and unified storage management to achieve lower costs, higher storage utilization and cloud readiness. Learn More. Privacy groups protest CISPA bill In what is turning out to be a repeat of last year, privacy rights groups launched an assault against the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA), barely a day after the controversial legislation was reintroduced in Congress on Wednesday. Read More Microsoft patches IE with record-setting updates to prep browser for Pwn2Own Microsoft this week patched 14 vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer, preparing the browser for its time as a target early next month at the annual Pwn2Own hacking contest. Read More Facebook may be the third wheel in your relationship Looking to have a romantic Valentine's Day with your sweetheart? Maybe you should use Facebook a little less. Read More Apple takes blame for iOS 6.1-Exchange battery-draining bug, promises patch Apple yesterday confirmed that a bug in iOS 6.1 causes devices to aggressively ping Microsoft Exchange email servers, shortening iPhone and iPad battery life. Read More Sound waves used to increase disk drive capacity Oregon State University researchers have discovered a way to use sound waves to enhance magnetic data storage. Read More Opera's WebKit move gives it shot at iOS market Opera's announcement yesterday that it would ditch its own browser and JavaScript engines in favor of the open-source WebKit and V8 engines will let it compete in the lucrative iOS market. Read More Google keeps Bing, Yahoo at bay in search business Google is hanging onto its dominant share of the search market, while its competitors inch up and down. Read More Higgs hunt halts with CERN collider down for two-year upgrade The Large Hadron Collider, which discovered what is believed to be the elusive Higgs boson, is being shut down for a two-year overhaul. Read More Lawmakers, business execs defend privacy in CISPA Privacy and digital rights groups are overstating the privacy concerns in a controversial cyberthreat information bill introduced this week in the U.S. Congress, the bill's sponsors and leaders of some business groups said. Read More WHITE PAPER: Red Hat Hybrid Cloud Storage: Gov't Organizations Get the Best In January 2012, Aberdeen surveyed 106 enterprises spanning various sectors about how they're dealing with high-growth storage. This report looks at each component of hybrid cloud storage, as users of this new technology will be able to choose where to locate their data: on-premise with scale-out NAS or in the public cloud. Learn More Verizon warns users of high risk apps, and also lists must-have apps Verizon Wireless recently began listing "High Risk Android Apps" on its Web site and now alerts customers to 13 apps that prevent a smartphone or tablet from going into sleep mode, causing heavy battery and data usage. Read More Startup creates Yelp-like site for business apps Business software purchasing, particularly at the enterprise level, can be a lengthy and difficult process, something startup G2 Crowd is hoping to alleviate with a new Yelp-like review site aimed at enterprise applications. Read More Opinion: Should you risk jailbreaking your iPhone? Chances are, if you don't know the dangers involved, you shouldn't jailbreak. Read More Samsung takes aim at emerging markets with REX phones Samsung Electronics has launched REX, a new series of "smart feature phones" that it will sell in emerging markets. Read More Adobe confirms zero-day exploit bypasses Adobe Reader sandbox A recently found exploit that bypasses the sandbox anti-exploitation protection in Adobe Reader 10 and 11 is highly sophisticated and is probably part of an important cyberespionage operation, the head of the malware analysis team at antivirus vendor Kaspersky Lab said. Read More Alcatel-Lucent hopes to make data plans more flexible Through its new Smart Plan platform, Alcatel-Lucent wants to make mobile subscription plans more flexible and allow data packages to be shared among users and handed out by companies to their customers using an application on smartphones and tablets. Read More JR Raphael: 5 fresh Android apps worth adding to your arsenal These five Android apps stand out for their excellent design, innovative functionality, and outstanding user experience. Read More Preston Gralla: More evidence that Windows Phone is hot on the heels of Blackberry The good news continues for Windows Phone: A report from IDC finds that it's closing in on Blackberry to become the number three smartphone operating system, thanks to a 150% increase in sales in past year, while Blackberry tumbled 43%. The findings are almost identical to a recent Gartner report. Read More Stuart Kippelman: Projects, errors, the user experience and planning in 2013 It's February, and many companies are just concluding their financial closing processes for the prior year. It's also a time for stepping back and reviewing the great accomplishments we made in 2012, and finalizing our goals for the coming year. Read More Jonny Evans: Fantasy: Apple, don't make an 'iCar' -- an 'iBike' makes much more sense There's some discussion speculating may one day move to introduce a connected vehicle, dubbed (and why not) 'iCar'; but perhaps the company could achieve something far more wonderful and grab huge sales in the developing markets with another mode of transportation it might take a firm with $130 billion in the bank to achieve, an iBike. Read More
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