Why tech manufacturing jobs are coming back to America

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	Why tech manufacturing jobs are coming back to America For the first time in more than a decade, technology manufacturing jobs are on the rise in the United States, according to new research from Jones Lang LaSalle. The jobs aren't surging back, per se; the research company predicts job growth at a rate of around 0.7 percent through 2018, up from around 1.1 million jobs at the end of 2012. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: VMware Innovation Awards VMware Innovation Awards Call for Entries Have you and your team completed a project that had a positive impact on your company or industry? Was it a project that helped to transform the experience for employees or customers? Did you and your team complete the project despite internal and external challenges? Have you leveraged VMware's technology? Click to continue In this Issue Microsoft's Surface tablet fire sale now under way Samsung unveils Galaxy S 4 mini with 4.3-inch screen and dual-core processor How to integrate Skype with Microsoft Lync Google takes yet another crack at taming email overload The Industrial Internet: The next great economic revolution WHITE PAPER: VMware Crash Insurance: Protect Your Business with Virtualization Think that your business is safe from an IT outage caused by a natural or man-made disaster? Think again. Read this trend brief to learn more about potential risks to IT services and how a comprehensive disaster recovery plan is essential to keeping your systems up and running at all times. Read Now! Microsoft's Surface tablet fire sale now under way Microsoft is trying hard to get its Surface tablets out the door. If you've waited this long to buy one, you might want to wait a few weeks more to see what shakes out; big sales like these usually presage a new version of the hardware waiting in the wings. And while it's hard to say with Microsoft, because there's no track record for Microsoft hardware clearance sales, it's a good bet that new Surfaces are just around the corner. Read More Samsung unveils Galaxy S 4 mini with 4.3-inch screen and dual-core processor Samsung Electronics has announced the Galaxy S 4 mini smartphone, which has a larger screen and a better camera than its predecessor, the Galaxy S III mini. The introduction of a pared-down version of the Galaxy S 4 is in line with Samsung tradition of trying to take advantage of the hype its flagship products have received. The compact version of the Galaxy S 4 comes less than a year after the company announced the Galaxy S III mini in October last year. Read More How to integrate Skype with Microsoft Lync Businesses hoping to connect Skype users with Lync users via their corporate Lync Server but haven't started the process yet are in for a wait. That's because it can take 30 days to activate accounts necessary to support a back-end service called public instant messaging connectivity, which is necessary for Skype and Lync Server to work together. Read More Google takes yet another crack at taming email overload Google is kicking off its latest effort to help Gmail users manage their messages -- a redesigned inbox. The new inbox, which will roll out to all Gmail users over the coming weeks, sorts incoming messages into labeled buckets. The messages it deems most important flow into the Primary bucket, while social network notifications from sites like Google Plus are grouped under a Social tab. Email from sites like Groupon announcing vendor deals go into a Promotions category, while receipts and confirmations go into an Updates bucket. Read More The Industrial Internet: The next great economic revolution It's often argued that the most important era in U.S. history was the Industrial Revolution, that period from roughly 1760 to 1840 when almost every aspect of business and daily life changed. The shift from manual labor to machines, from wood to coal, from farms to cities -- those are just a few of the ways our world changed dramatically when a new era of U.S. economic power was born. We are now at the beginning of the next great economic era, which is being ushered in by the Industrial Internet Revolution. Read More
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