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In this Issue Microsoft tacks up first wanted poster, debuts temp bounty for IE11 bugs A final, desperate -- and doomed -- push for H-1B restrictions Best Buy recalls 5,100 MacBook Pro replacement batteries after reports of fire Airwatch CEO: We'll be the breakout market leader in mobile management Report: Microsoft and Nokia talked acquisition French privacy authority gives Google 3 months to change its ways Foxconn to hire 3,000 to support Firefox OS and software development Congress looks to kill NASA's plan to capture an asteroid Qualcomm targets China, emerging markets with new low-end Snapdragon chips CIOs bemoan lock-in and the 'false flexibility' of the cloud Facebook designing network fabric to meet massive performance needs Twitter buys Spindle to thread in location discovery tools Intellectual Ventures files second patent suit against Motorola Mobility 3D printer creates lithium-ion batteries the size of a grain of sand John W. Thompson: Embracing digital technologies and building an agile infrastructure Richi Jennings: Microsoft is/isn't buying Nokia. Does anyone Care? WEBCAST: 8x8 Unified Communications 101 What's the best way to implement a unified communications solution for your organization? Learn more! Microsoft tacks up first wanted poster, debuts temp bounty for IE11 bugs Microsoft on Wednesday backpedaled from a long-standing refusal to pay bug bounties when it announced a temporary program for the beta of Internet Explorer 11 (IE11). Read More A final, desperate -- and doomed -- push for H-1B restrictions The Senate is expected to vote next week on an immigration bill, and it is likely to pass after one last fight to give U.S. workers hiring preference over foreigners with H-1B visas. Read More Best Buy recalls 5,100 MacBook Pro replacement batteries after reports of fire Best Buy has recalled about 5,100 replacement batteries for Apple's MacBook Pro laptops, after 13 reports that the battery caught fire, a U.S. consumer safety agency said. Read More Airwatch CEO: We'll be the breakout market leader in mobile management Airwatch has emerged as one of the clear leaders in mobile device managment, but the company faces numerous challenges, including a rapidly evolving market that's moving away from simply managing devices and toward more complicated control of apps and data. Read More Report: Microsoft and Nokia talked acquisition Microsoft and cellphone maker Nokia were in advanced talks about an acquisition of the Finnish company's device business, but the discussions have broken down, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal. Read More French privacy authority gives Google 3 months to change its ways France's data protection authority has given Google three months to change the way it handles users' private data, or face legal sanctions. Read More Foxconn to hire 3,000 to support Firefox OS and software development Electronics manufacturer Foxconn Technology Group is putting yet more effort behind Mozilla's Firefox OS, and plans to hire up to 3,000 people in Taiwan with expertise in HTML5 and cloud computing. Read More Congress looks to kill NASA's plan to capture an asteroid House Republican leaders are shooting to get astronauts on the moon and Mars, but they're trying to nix the president's asteroid plans. Read More WHITE PAPER: Kony Solutions Mobility Outlook Report – Smart Mobility for Better Business With Kony's enterprise mobility solutions, you mobilize quicker and smarter. The KonyOne Platform provides true 'write once, run everywhere' capability that extends your apps across all of your employee's devices. Learn more. Qualcomm targets China, emerging markets with new low-end Snapdragon chips Chip maker Qualcomm is introducing six new processors meant for entry-level phones in China and emerging markets. Read More CIOs bemoan lock-in and the 'false flexibility' of the cloud Despite the promise of portability from service providers, the reality of the cloud for big customers is a similar type of lock-in as they experience with on-premise apps vendors such as Oracle and SAP, two CIOs said Tuesday. Read More Facebook designing network fabric to meet massive performance needs With more than a billion monthly active users, it's easy to imagine that most of the data travelling over Facebook's networks is delivering photos, status updates and "likes" to its end users, but that's far from the case. Read More Twitter buys Spindle to thread in location discovery tools Twitter has bought Spindle, a search technology company that informs users about what's happening with local businesses and organizations around them. Read More Intellectual Ventures files second patent suit against Motorola Mobility Intellectual Ventures, a large patent-licensing firm, has filed a second patent-infringement lawsuit against Motorola Mobility while its first patent lawsuit is still pending in a Delaware count. Read More 3D printer creates lithium-ion batteries the size of a grain of sand Researchers from Harvard and the University of Illinois have printed precisely interlaced stacks of tiny battery electrodes, each less than the width of a human hair. Read More John W. Thompson: Embracing digital technologies and building an agile infrastructure Organizations are looking to leverage social media to speed up the sharing of information and enable better and faster decision making. When I ask where their business priorities stand for the coming year, I consistently hear about a few other key priorities. Read More Richi Jennings: Microsoft is/isn't buying Nokia. Does anyone Care? Merger talks irrevocably fail. Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) isn't buying Nokia (HEL:NOK1V)(NYSE:NOK), after all, we're told. But Huawei might be. Seems like, despite earlier appearances, Ballmer and Elop don't get along. Good news for Samsung, Google and Apple; but bad news for mobile-platform diversity. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers ponder the future shape of the smartphone market. Read More
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