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	Plan to hike H-1B cap to 300,000 seen dead; 130,000 cap still possible The U.S. Senate's comprehensive immigration bill is expected to include an H-1B cap hike and higher fees aimed at offshore outsourcers. Read More WHITE PAPER: Moovweb 3 Steps to a Cost-Effective Mobile Strategy In the new Moovweb white paper, "Creating the Right Mobile Strategy: What You Need to Know Before You Get Started", get the insight you need to make an educated decision on the move to mobile. Read Now! In this Issue 4 Bluetooth speakers: Mono colors with stereo sound iPhone snares eighth straight top satisfaction ranking In online sales tax debate, $1M business is 'mom and pop' 14 offline-capable Chromebook apps for IT pros #HappyBirthday! Twitter and 7 years of transformation Temporary fixes released for Samsung Android lock-screen glitch Long buyout battle could erode customer confidence in Dell, analysts say IBM moves toward post-silicon transistor Video: Blackberry prepares to launch latest OS and phone in the U.S. FCC Chairman Genachowski to announce resignation Friday, report says Senators add Internet sales tax amendment to budget resolution Hands on with Google Keep: Can it slay Evernote? Bing weaves more Facebook, Twitter data into search results Taiwan security official warns of crippling Chinese cyberattacks Canon to launch 'world's smallest' digital SLR camera French Jewish Students' Union seeks $50M in criminal damages from Twitter TeamViewer-based cyberespionage operation targets activists, researchers say Darlene Storm: Rules of cyberwarfare manual: Hacktivists can be killed, hacking pacemakers may be OK RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: EMC IT's Next Transformation To remain competitive organizations need to manage the relationship between IT and the business. Megatrends like virtualization, consumerization, cloud computing, and mobility are forcing a new model for operating IT. Read the interactive guide to learn more. 4 Bluetooth speakers: Mono colors with stereo sound Even the most high-end smartphones and tablets today still have less-than-stellar speakers. We test four mobile Bluetooth speakers to see how they can improve your sound. Read More iPhone snares eighth straight top satisfaction ranking Apple's iPhone yesterday again took the top ranking in J.D. Power and Associates' smartphone customer satisfaction survey, the company said. Read More In online sales tax debate, $1M business is 'mom and pop' As Congress considers a law requiring online retailers to collect sales taxes nationally, debate is heating up over the revenue threshold for triggering collections. Read More 14 offline-capable Chromebook apps for IT pros Web apps are great, but when you can't be online 24/7, these apps are still able to step up and get the job done. Read More #HappyBirthday! Twitter and 7 years of transformation Seven years ago today, Twitter was born when the first tweet was sent out, marking the arrival of a new way to communicate online. As long as you did so in less than 140 characters. Read More Temporary fixes released for Samsung Android lock-screen glitch Two security vendors have released temporary fixes for a flaw in some Samsung Android phones that could allow an attacker to bypass a locked screen. Read More Long buyout battle could erode customer confidence in Dell, analysts say With Michael Dell still battling to get his US$24.4 billion buyout deal approved by shareholders, his company needs to avoid a long, drawn-out battle that could erode customer confidence. Read More IBM moves toward post-silicon transistor Exploring methods of computing without silicon, IBM has found a way to make transistors that could be fashioned into virtual circuitry that mimics how the human brain operates. Read More Video: Blackberry prepares to launch latest OS and phone in the U.S. The Blackberry Z10 will go on sale in the U.S. on Friday, though it was available in the UK beginning on January 31. But the U.S. is one of Blackberry's biggest markets, geared at enterprise customers. Read More WHITE PAPER: Message Systems, Incorporated Send High Volume Email Without Getting Blocked or Berated For many companies, sending large volumes of email is business as usual. Social networking sites are known to send a few billion emails a day. Whatever "high volume" means to your business, our guide reveals how to send more email without getting blocked by an ISP or eliciting customer complaints. Learn More FCC Chairman Genachowski to announce resignation Friday, report says FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski reportedly plans to resign, ending a four-year term marked by significant efforts to expand wired and wireless broadband services across the U.S. Read More Senators add Internet sales tax amendment to budget resolution A group of U.S. senators has offered a nonbinding amendment to a fiscal year 2014 budget resolution allowing states to collect sales taxes on Internet sales and end the tax-free shopping that many shoppers enjoy online. Read More Hands on with Google Keep: Can it slay Evernote? Evernote who? Google is taking on the perennial digital note-taking favorite with Google Keep, a service that lets you store quick notes, checklists, Web links, and photos for things you need to remember or keep track of. Read More Bing weaves more Facebook, Twitter data into search results Bing is incorporating more information from outside social networks such as Facebook and Twitter into how it displays search results involving people. Read More Taiwan security official warns of crippling Chinese cyberattacks Chinese cyberattacks targeting Taiwan are moving beyond stealing sensitive information, and could be capable of crippling the island's transportation and financial systems, a top security official claimed on Wednesday. Read More Canon to launch 'world's smallest' digital SLR camera Canon will soon launch what it is calling the world's smallest digital single-lens camera, with a body that weighs just over 370 grams and featuring an 18-megapixel image sensor. Read More French Jewish Students' Union seeks $50M in criminal damages from Twitter The French Jewish Students' Union has filed a lawsuit seeking 38.5 million euros (US$50 million) in criminal damages from Twitter and its CEO Dick Costolo over the company's failure to identify those responsible for a series of anti-semitic posts last October. Twitter retorted that the union was "grandstanding." Read More TeamViewer-based cyberespionage operation targets activists, researchers say Security researchers have uncovered yet another ongoing cyberespionage operation targeting political and human rights activists, government agencies, research organizations and industrial manufacturers primarily from Eastern European countries and former Soviet Union states. Read More Darlene Storm: Rules of cyberwarfare manual: Hacktivists can be killed, hacking pacemakers may be OK The Tallinn Manual on the International Law Applicable to Cyber Warfare is a first of its kind, addressing the do's and don'ts of cyberwarfare with 95 "blacklisted" rules. A full-scale war can be triggered by a cyberattack and civilian activists, hacktivists, who participate in these attacks can be lawfully targeted with deadly force and killed. The NATO-backed manual looks at cyber espionage, perfidy, cyberattacks on nuclear plants, and gives numerous wild, sci-fi-like scenarios such as a lethal hack to a pacemaker. Read More
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