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	The iPad and the rise of the Planet of the Apes Apple CEO Tim Cook made no mention of it in this week's earnings call, but there's a burgeoning demand for iPads among the country's zoo-bound primates, thanks to the Apps for Apes initiative. However, not all apes are created equal: Orangutans introduced to Apple's tablet have loved the device, but gorillas really haven't taken to the iPad with the same enthusiasm, which is something Corning obviously didn't take into account when naming its Gorilla Glass. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Cloudera Get Certified in Apache Hadoop. Learn with Cloudera! Cloudera University is the world's leading provider of Apache Hadoop training and certification . Get job-specific training for Hadoop administrators and developers, as well as in-depth coverage of other Apache projects such as HBase, Hive and Pig. Check out the free online tutorials or sign up for a live training class near you, by visiting university.cloudera.com/. In this Issue Mobile apps are a priority in search of a leader Can new smartphones rekindle the BlackBerry fire? Samsung tops smartphone and overall handsets market in Q4 Senators seek H-1B cap that starts at 115,000 and rises WEBCAST: CDW Corporation Digital Signage Points the Way Digital Signage technology delivers specific, dynamic content to a specific audience, in a specific place, at a specific time. In this webcast you will learn from CDW expert David Waldron the components that comprise a digital signage solution, how to tell what kind of solutionmight be right for you and how to get started with deployment. Learn More. Mobile apps are a priority in search of a leader Even as mobile computing has become a top priority to executives, businesses lack internal leadership for mobile efforts, and the IT vendors they rely on, such as IBM and Oracle, aren't delivering on the mobile app front either, a newly released survey shows. Read More Can new smartphones rekindle the BlackBerry fire? "Not dead yet" could well be the new BlackBerry marketing theme, as the world prepares to hear about two new BlackBerry 10 smartphones to be announced next Wednesday. Days before the announcement, there is fairly wide disagreement among analysts and developers over whether Research In Motion can stop the dramatic decline of its BlackBerry phones. The BlackBerry was the market leader until the iPhone was introduced in 2007 and Android phones after that. Its market share fell to 10 percent in 2010 and has dwindled to 5 percent today. Read More Samsung tops smartphone and overall handsets market in Q4 Samsung led both the smartphone and overall handsets market in the fourth quarter, though analysts' estimates of shipments and market share varied. The South Korean company shipped 106 million handsets in the fourth quarter of which 60 million were smartphones, ABI Research said Thursday. Samsung had a 31 percent share of smartphone shipments in comparison to Apple's 24.5 percent share, the research firm said. Read More Senators seek H-1B cap that starts at 115,000 and rises A bipartisan group of Senators is planning to introduce a bill that not only hikes the H-1B cap, but allows it to rise automatically with demand to a maximum of 300,000 visas annually. This 20-page bill, called the Immigration Innovation Act of 2013 or the "I-Squared Act of 2013," is being developed by Sens. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), and Chris Coons (D-Del.). Read More
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