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• 15 March 2013

• News: Lawmakers hear from CEO opponents of H-1Bs

  In a closed door meeting this week on Capitol Hill, lawmakers and staff took the H-1B visa debate in a different direction. They invited the heads of some U.S.-based IT services companies, competing directly with offshore outsourcing providers, for a frank discussion away from the public eye.

• News: Samsung plans high-end Tizen OS phone

  Samsung is planning to release a high-end smartphone running on the open-source Tizen operating system in August or September.

• News: Non-Microsoft security flaws the ones to watch, Secunia analysis finds

  The number of security flaws affecting Windows users rose five percent last year and the culprits are overwhelmingly non-Microsoft programs, the latest study from information provider Secunia has found.

• News: Galaxy S4 would be the ultimate iPhone, says analyst

  Samsung's new Galaxy S4 would be the "ultimate smartphone" if it ran Apple's iOS and accessed the Cupertino, Calif. company's app ecosystem, a clearly-impressed analyst said today. Others, however, dismissed the idea.

• News: March Madness streaming-content bans don't apply to CEOs: study

  To ban or not to ban? The question comes up every year as March Madness approaches and companies fret about the potential for sluggish networks and lost productivity if employees tune in to games played during work hours.

• News: 'NotCompatible' Android malware rears its ugly head, again

  The "NotCompatible" malware, designed to infect Android devices and turn them into unwitting Web proxies, is suddenly showing a sharp uptick in activity, according to mobile security vendor Lookout.

• News: Big data roadblocks will slow driverless cars until 2040, analyst says

  The excitement over recent advancements in autonomous vehicle technology has elicited some optimistic expectations.

• News: Government CIO role ditched in governance shake-up

  The government has announced a big shake up of its governance structures, which has resulted in the cross-government CIO role being ditched.

• News: Microsoft Surface sales underwhelm, at an estimated 1.5 million units

  Microsoft's Surface RT and Surface Pro haven't made much of a dent in the tablet market, according to unofficial sales estimates.

• News: Two charged with gift-card hacking scheme

  Two California men face charges in Massachusetts of hacking into point-of-sale computers at Subway restaurants and adding more than US$40,000 in value to gift cards, the U.S. Department of Justice said.

• News: #TwitterCopy! Facebook may incorporate hashtags

  Facebook reportedly is taking a page from social networking rival Twitter and may start using the hashtag.

• News: Wanted: heroic programmers or high-level APIs

  Multicore computing is progressing so fast that it's difficult to forecast "what tomorrow may bring", says Barbara Chapman of the University of Houston, Texas.

• News: Multicore is key, but don't expect a 'killer app'

  Given two start-ups, one selling itself on its parallel-processing nous and the other not emphasising that aspect, would investors be significantly more attracted to the former?

• News: Bank launches data platform in 20 African countries

  The African Development Bank Group this week announced the launch of what it calls an open data platform in 20 African countries as part of its Africa Information Highway initiative aimed at significantly improving data management and dissemination across the continent.

• News: Explore the Tale of Tier 2 Cities for IT Outsourcing Options

  IT outsourcing providers are increasingly setting up operations in so-called tier-2 cities to decrease their cost of delivery and access new labor pools.

• News: MTN Group forecasts hitting 200 million subscribers by mid-year

  MTN Group expects to continue investing in networks outside its home base in South Africa, in the wake of a solid performance in 2012, largely driven by a expanding subscriber base that fueled revenue.

• News: Increased spy access to Americans' banking data raises privacy concerns

  Intelligence agencies eye use of financial crime data to fight terrorism

• News: 3G and 4G USB modems are a security threat, researcher says

  The vast majority of 3G and 4G USB modems handed out by mobile operators to their customers are manufactured by a handful of companies and run insecure software, according to two security researchers from Russia.

• News: Retailer faces uphill battle in $13M lawsuit against Visa, analyst says

  Specialty retailer Genesco faces an uphill battle in its precedent-setting $13.3 million lawsuit against Visa USA Inc., a Garner analyst said.

• News: Wall Street Beat: Markets advance but tech trends stay stable

  While U.S. markets have surged lately, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average hitting milestone after milestone in 10 straight days of advances, a relatively modest increase in the value of IT company shares reflects the reality that a rising tide will not lift all boats in the tech sector.

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