Will the White House disappoint on H-1B displacements?

Computerworld First Look July 17, 2015 Will the White House disappoint on H-1B displacements? Signals are mixed on whether the Obama administration will take action or wait for Congress to change the law. READ MORE   Issue highlights 1. Mini-PC round-up: A look at 6 new Windows 8.1 offerings 2. Spam rate falls below 50 percent for first time in a decade 3. The BYOD debate is not over 4. Reddit to crack down on objectionable content 5. The average mobile YouTube session is now 40 minutes, Google says 6. 5 lessons from Google that everyone should learn 7. Google reports strong earnings, stock jumps 7% 8. Industrial IoT testbed hooks equipment monitoring up to a public cloud 9. CoolaData offers behavorial analytics as a cloud service 10. ITblogwatch: AMD is dead in the water. With no hope in sight White Paper: Kony Inc Mobility in 2015: The Essential Mobility Guidebook Bring business and IT leaders together with these 10 New Rules for Mobile Strategy and Success. Learn More Mini-PC round-up: A look at 6 new Windows 8.1 offerings Desktop computers aren't the bulky towers they used to be. Here are six mini PCs that fit in the palm of your hand and will change how you think about PCs. READ MORE Spam rate falls below 50 percent for first time in a decade Spam fell to less than 50 percent of all email in June, the lowest in a decade, security firm Symantec said in its latest Intelligence Report. READ MORE The BYOD debate is not over It's been looking like BYOD was more myth than reality, in the words of one observer. But given the imminent demise of phone subsidies and other factors, BYOD may well undergo a rebirth. READ MORE Reddit to crack down on objectionable content Reddit, the self-appointed "front page of the Internet" and one of the Web's most popular sites, is planning to crack down on objectionable content -- at least in public areas of the site. READ MORE The average mobile YouTube session is now 40 minutes, Google says On mobile devices, the average length of a viewing session on YouTube is now more than 40 minutes, Google reported. That's double what it was last year, Chief Financial Officer Ruth Porat said during the company's quarterly earnings call. READ MORE White Paper: New Relic Monitoring Application Performance in Hybrid Clouds This white paper will help you understand how you can achieve end-to-end visibility into application performance no matter where your application or parts of your application are running. Learn more. 5 lessons from Google that everyone should learn There are two levels at which Google excites. There is a systematic stream of advances, such as those presented at the 2015 Google I/O event earlier this year -- Android M, Google Photos and the like. Then there is game-changing news that seems to come out of nowhere but appears to capture the future in an extraordinary way. READ MORE Google reports strong earnings, stock jumps 7% Google's stock jumped more than 7 percent in after-hours trading Thursday after the company reported strong earnings results for the second quarter. READ MORE Industrial IoT testbed hooks equipment monitoring up to a public cloud If you're responsible for an industrial component that millions of people depend on, the last thing you want is a middle-of-the-night alert that the part has failed. The Internet of Things could be your ticket to sweet dreams. READ MORE CoolaData offers behavorial analytics as a cloud service Israel-based CoolaData promises to ease the headaches, and start-up costs, of running a data warehouse with a cloud-based analysis service. READ MORE ITblogwatch: AMD is dead in the water. With no hope in sight AMD releases yet another set of awful financials. It's doing really badly at its bread'n'butter -- selling CPUs and GPUs. Its custom SoC business is the only highlight in a dark, dark story. 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