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	Senate report: Apple claims subsidiaries to avoid paying billions in taxes each year Apple has set up three foreign subsidiaries that the company claims are not resident in any nation for taxing purposes, in an effort to avoid paying tens of billions of dollars in taxes to the U.S. and other countries, according to a new report from a U.S. Senate subcommittee. Apple has set up a "complex web" of offshore entities to avoid paying taxes, with some subsidiaries set up in low-tax Ireland, according to a report released Monday by the investigations subcommittee of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee. Read More WHITE PAPER: HP and Intel® Itanium® Plan your mission critical future Outlines the four steps to prepare your infrastructure for the future of mission-critical computing by consolidating your UNIX platforms with x86 systems. See HP and its Intel-based solutions can give you a future-ready foundation that leverages today's investments. Learn more. In this Issue Google preps Dart 1.0 to challenge JavaScript Skills shortage? Not if you pay or train Dell dumps OpenStack and VMware for public cloud, focuses on private clouds Windows 8 offers little value to enterprises over Windows 7 Google may ship Glass in 2013 RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: VMware Innovation Awards Showcase Your Company's Leadership Share your story and gain recognition for your leadership. Nominations are now being accepted for the first annual VMware Innovation Awards, produced by Computerworld. Categories include: Cloud, Mobility, Software-Defined Data Center, Transforming the Workforce with New Tech. Learn more. Google preps Dart 1.0 to challenge JavaScript Google is getting ready to bring its JavaScript rival Dart language to a formal 1.0 release and has a good idea what will be featured in the 3.0 version of Google Web Toolkit (GWT), due next year. Dart is slated to reach the 1.0 milestone soon, said Emily Fortuna, a software engineer at Google. Billed as a language for structured Web programming, Dart will be packed with features such as method cascades for easier modification of objects, as well as named arguments to improve readability and discoverability. JQuery JavaScript functionality is included, too. Read More Skills shortage? Not if you pay or train One of the most politically charged phrases in IT these days is "skills shortage." That phrase may come up Tuesday when the Senate Judiciary Committee, as expected, takes up a series of industry-sponsored amendments to the immigration bill. Read More Dell dumps OpenStack and VMware for public cloud, focuses on private clouds Dell has dramatically shifted its cloud computing strategy, canceling plans it once had to launch a public cloud service based on the OpenStack open source platform, and discontinuing an EMC VMware-based public cloud it already has on the market. Read More Windows 8 offers little value to enterprises over Windows 7 Windows 8 faces a number of hurdles in the enterprise, but the biggest reason it won't replace the current corporate champion, Windows 7, is simple. "Enterprises just don't see Windows 8 having value," said David Johnson, an analyst with Forrester Research. "They don't see the value in the changes in Windows 8 [compared to Windows 7]." Read More Google may ship Glass in 2013 Just a month after a top Google executive said Glass wouldn't be officially released for another year, sources say the computerized eyeglasses actually should ship by the end of this year. One source inside Google and another close to Google said the company expects to ship Glass before the end of 2013. Read More
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