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	Report: Apple asking TomTom to help fix its Maps Apple is said to be asking TomTom for help as it tries to improve its Maps app. According to a Bloomberg report, Senior Vice President Eddy Cue is "prodding digital maps provider TomTom to fix landmark and navigation data it shares with Apple." Read More WHITE PAPER: Service-now.com Boost IT Visibility & Value with a Great Service Catalog Many CIOs are being pressured to demonstrate IT value. Create a great service catalog that widely promotes your services that are easy to understand and request. Read Now! In this Issue RIM preps developers for BlackBerry 10 QWERTY smartphone In a symbolic shift, IBM's India workforce likely exceeds U.S. NetApp storage array now spans into Amazon's cloud Microsoft jacks up client license fees, but they may still be a good deal Apple's iPhone 5 cleared for sale in China RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: LogMeIn LogMeIn Central: Automate, Monitor and Manage PCs. LogMeIn lets you Monitor and Manage PCs, deliver patches and updates to multiple PCS simultaneously. Central helps IT deliver seamless support that keeps employees productive and up and running. LogMeIn Central - automate routine tasks and do more. Free Trial RIM preps developers for BlackBerry 10 QWERTY smartphone Research In Motion has introduced the BlackBerry Dev Alpha C, a smartphone developers can use to test their applications and get ready for the launch of the BlackBerry 10 QWERTY device next year. The company also said developers will be able to trade their Alpha devices for a fully functional limited edition BlackBerry 10 smartphone. Step-by-step, RIM is getting developers ready for the Jan. 30 launch of BlackBerry 10, when the company will introduce one all-touch smartphone and one more traditional model with a QWERTY keyboard. Read More In a symbolic shift, IBM's India workforce likely exceeds U.S. There is a difference in the way U.S. and Indian IT firms report their headcounts, and it tells a lot about globalization. Indian firms diligently report hiring quarter-to-quarter. It's a key metric and a source of pride. In the U.S. it's different story. The big IT firms, HP, Dell, Oracle, and most others, with the exception of Microsoft, only provide global headcounts, and not country breakouts. At the time that IBM stopped reporting its U.S. headcount in 2009, it was beginning to appear that India was on trajectory to surpass its U.S. workforce. Crossing such a threshold is a symbolic shift more than anything else -- a globalization footnote. With a global workforce of 430,000, less than a fourth of IBM's employees are in the U.S. Read More NetApp storage array now spans into Amazon's cloud Signaling a continued effort by Amazon Web Services to make its cloud more appealing to enterprise users, the company has announced a partnership with storage provider NetApp that will allow customers to have a consistent storage array powered by NetApp on both their own premises and in Amazon's cloud. Read More Microsoft jacks up client license fees, but they may still be a good deal Microsoft will make businesses pay 15 percent more for licenses that let workers access servers from as many devices as they want, which -- depending on how workers do their jobs -- may still be cheaper than the alternative. Read More Apple's iPhone 5 cleared for sale in China Apple's iPhone 5 appears to have cleared the last hurdle in a series of Chinese regulatory checks, opening the way for the device to finally be sold in one of the company's largest markets. On Thursday, two iPhone models received the necessary network access licenses from China's Telecommunications Equipment and Certification Center (TENAA). The devices had previously received approval from a pair of Chinese regulatory bodies in September and in October. Read More
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