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	U.S. Senator blasts Microsoft's H-1B push as it lays 18,000 off workers U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions Thursday delivered a scalding and sarcastic attack on the use of highly skilled foreign workers by U.S. corporations that was heavily aimed at Microsoft, a chief supporter of the practice. Read More WHITE PAPER: HGST Flash Performance for Oracle RAC with PCIe Shared Storage This paper talks about a unique offering that makes it possible for Oracle RAC database to run on PCIe SSDs. The RAC cluster need not have any other shared storage, yet it still achieves the best performance, availability, scalability, and cost savings for building out blocks of databases for the public or private cloud. View Now>> In this Issue Surface survives Microsoft cuts, but tablet strategy remains muddled Lenovo plans new small-screen Windows tablet for U.S. market Preston Gralla: Do Microsoft layoffs mean Windows Phone will be sold off? PC sales rebound does little to help AMD's earnings Lenovo spins 180, says it's still in the 8-in. Windows tablet game Google starts work on Chrome bug that slurps Windows laptop juice Microsoft may drag out layoffs for a year Microsoft now leads in tech layoffs WEBCAST: EMC Corporation VIDEO: BACKUP FOR VSPEX Learn about the strength of backup with EMC VSPEX and lead your IT transformation. By choosing EMC VSPEX with integrated EMC backup, you'll be able to accelerate your virtualization deployment. Learn More>> Surface survives Microsoft cuts, but tablet strategy remains muddled Microsoft plans to press ahead with its in-house Surface tablets, but the company's strategy remains vague and elusive. Read More Lenovo plans new small-screen Windows tablet for U.S. market Lenovo has stopped sales of its existing small-screen Windows tablets in the U.S., but plans a new model for release by the end of the year. Read More Preston Gralla: Do Microsoft layoffs mean Windows Phone will be sold off? Microsoft's plans to lay off 18,000 people in the next year and decision to kill off the Nokia X line of low-cost Android phones may be more than short-term cost-cutting measures -- they could well portend Microsoft's selling off its Windows Phone line. So says at least one analyst. Is he on target? Read More PC sales rebound does little to help AMD's earnings A rebound in the PC market aided Intel's earnings earlier this week, but did not help rival Advanced Micro Devices, which recorded a net loss for the second quarter, even as a shift in its business focus to graphics cards and custom chips boosted revenue. Read More WHITE PAPER: SAS A Non-Geek's Big Data Playbook This white paper is designed to be a visual playbook for the non-geek yet technically savvy business professional who is still trying to understand how big data, specifically Hadoop, impacts the enterprise data game we've all been playing for years. Learn more Lenovo spins 180, says it's still in the 8-in. Windows tablet game Lenovo on Friday said it would continue selling sub-10-in. Windows tablets in the U.S., backing away from statements it made the day before. Read More Google starts work on Chrome bug that slurps Windows laptop juice Google engineers have begun working on a fix for a months-old Chrome bug that drains Windows' laptop batteries, a move triggered by a story on Forbes' website. Read More Microsoft may drag out layoffs for a year It could take Microsoft a year to lay off the 18,000 workers it plans to cut, a drawn-out morale-busting process criticized by both labor experts and industry analysts. Read More Microsoft now leads in tech layoffs Microsoft's planned 18,000 job cuts, or 14% of its workforce, is the biggest tech layoff announced this year, surpassing Hewlett-Packard's announcement in May that it was cutting 16,000 jobs. Read More
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