Job well done? Better ways to assess tech employees

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	Job well done? Better ways to assess tech employees No more counting lines of code: Managers look for new ways to assess IT employee performance. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: CITE Conference Consumerize today...or fall behind tomorrow Mobile. Cloud. BYOD. Social Media. They're transforming business right now. Don't miss the boat. Attend Consumerization of IT in the Enterprise (CITE) June 2-4, 2013 in San Francisco and learn how leading minds at companies just like yours are embracing consumer technologies and managing the transition to give them an edge. Learn more at www.citeconference.com In this Issue H-1B demand this year will be fast, furious U.S. patent office rebuffs Apple's iPad Mini trademark request Dell blames 'uncertain adoption' of Windows 8 for some of its financial woes How Microsoft lost the future of gesture control With S-Translator, Samsung aims to reach an old industry goal in real time Dell working on ARM supercomputer prototypes China slams U.S. for discriminating against nation's tech vendors 5 strategic tips for avoiding a big data bust SAP sues to protect customers from patent suits DoCoMo builds fleet of LTE trucks for earthquakes, concerts Richi Jennings: Closing time at YouTube: Shutting down in Google spring-clean offensive #bestvideo WHITE PAPER: Mimecast North America Inc The Total Cost of Email In this white paper, we'll explore the true costs of fragmented email management and uncover how to reduce those costs with a cloud-based solution for email management. Learn More. H-1B demand this year will be fast, furious The U.S. begins accepting new H-1B visa petitions on April 1, and strong demand is expected. This is going to be followed by much fury. Read More U.S. patent office rebuffs Apple's iPad Mini trademark request The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has provisionally denied Apple's trademark application for "iPad Mini" because the term is "merely descriptive" of the tablet's size. Read More Dell blames 'uncertain adoption' of Windows 8 for some of its financial woes Dell blamed Microsoft's Windows 8 as one of several causes for its grim financial future, according to a Friday filing with U.S. securities regulators. Read More How Microsoft lost the future of gesture control Microsoft squandered its five-year head start in gesture control technology and is now falling behind. By the time the company gets Kinect for Windows into the consumer market, Leap Motion may already own that market, writes Mike Elgan. Read More With S-Translator, Samsung aims to reach an old industry goal in real time The Samsung Galaxy S4 will ship to 155 countries by the end of next month, and its real-time voice translation to help people communicate across borders may be one of its most ambitious features. Read More WHITE PAPER: Red Hat Economics of Scale-Out Storage Scale-out storage technologies have rapidly gained popularity over the past several years, successfully crossing the chasm from niche technology to mainstream enterprise solution. Learn More Dell working on ARM supercomputer prototypes Unfazed by a takeover battle looming on the sidelines, members of Dell's research division are putting together the pieces for prototype ARM supercomputers that could be deployed in the future. Read More China slams U.S. for discriminating against nation's tech vendors China has slammed a new U.S. funding law that will tighten scrutiny of information technology purchases from the country, and said it could severely damage the mutual trust between the two nations. Read More 5 strategic tips for avoiding a big data bust Failed expectations, increased costs, unnecessary legal risks -- going blind into a big data project doesn't pay Read More SAP sues to protect customers from patent suits SAP has filed a court action against patent holder Pi-Net International, which it says has filed patent infringement lawsuits against a number of SAP customers. Read More DoCoMo builds fleet of LTE trucks for earthquakes, concerts NTT DoCoMo, Japan's largest mobile operator, is building a fleet of truck-based LTE base stations that can be deployed during natural disasters or to support large crowds. Read More Richi Jennings: Closing time at YouTube: Shutting down in Google spring-clean offensive #bestvideo YouTube is shutting down. Closing. It will cease to be. The experiment has expired. It is an ex-Google-product This is the end. Google is getting rid of YouTube. In its latest bout of spring cleaning, the video experiment is going the way of Wave, Reader, and Buzz. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers try to nail it to its perch. Read More
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