Cara Garretson, IDG News Service, Patrick Thibodeau

You gotta love Silicon Valley. The Facebook IPO is creating dozens and dozens of new millionaires. Apple, thanks to the iPhone and iPad, has seen its employment nearly double in two years.

And then there is valley icon Hewlett-Packard.

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WASHINGTON - U.S. officials said this week that offshoring will hurt the growth of programming jobs in in this decade, though expansion of health care IT and mobile networks will in turn increase demand for software developers, technical support and system analysts.

By 2020, employment in all computer occupations is expected to increase by 22 percent, but some IT fields will fare better than others, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) biennial update of employment projections.

I'm surprised that the Internet security aspects of the Heartland Institute document leak haven't gotten more attention. There's a good lesson here.

The person who received the documents, Peter Gleick, an environmental scientist and MacArthur genius grant winner, used social engineering to get them. His technique was Kevin Mitnick 101.

The U.S. Air Force is planning to buy as many as 18,000 tablet computers to serve as "electronic flight bags" that will replace the paper manuals and documents that air crews use today.

www.airforce.comThe Air Force solicitation for the devices seems to give Apple's iPad an edge in the battle for the contract. The document specifically calls for "iPad 2 brand name or equal devices."

Amazon's Kindle Fire is catching up to Apple's iPad. Google hopes to fixed dropped WiFi on its Chromebooks. Researchers think that SSDs have a bleak outlook. Android 5.0 Jelly Bean might be on the horizon.

On World Tech Update this week, Apple announces when they will debut the next iPad, the FBI wants to mine data from social networks, a Yahoo shareholder challenges board picks, US and Europe approve Google-Motorola deal, and President Obama launches marshmallows.

Apple's iPad 3 will debut on March 7 and could support US LTE data networks. Yahoo faces a board challenge from a shareholder who rejected the proposed candidates and suggested his own. Android lost smartphone marketshare for the first time as Apple had a great fourth quarter. CERN's Large Hadron Collider is shifting into high gear.

Calling a thin client a device for power users may seem like an oxymoron, but Hewlett-Packard is giving it a try.

HP Monday released two thin client devices, including one it says is a potential replacement for desktops used by knowledge workers. The update is the first to HP thin clients in two years.

The Byte, Feb. 14, 2012: The European Commission and US Department of Justice approved Google’s acquisition of Motorola Mobility. Hard disk drive prices will remain unusually high until 2014 due to flooding in Thailand. A humanoid robot named Jennifer shoots and scores on the ice. Sony Smart Sockets can control power consumption by appliance, user or power source.

Microsoft's online store in India is hacked by the EvilShadow team, Apple asks the Fair Labor Association to inspect Foxconn, White House CTO Aneesh Chopra resigns from the nation's top technology post, and the FCC maps mobile-broadband penetration and hopes to fix dead zones.

Your best and cheapest personal trainer may be your tablet or smartphone. On this week's App Review we'll take a look at some of the best health and fitness apps including RunKeeper, Instant Heart Rate, Fitness HD and MyFitnessPal.