News from ZDNet | | | Bahrain's death toll grows and its Internet slows Arbor Networks speculates that Bahrain is censoring its Internet as the strife torn nation's death toll climbs. Read more | | Open Source Obama The U.S. government isn't just using open source, it's creating it, and even the White House has gotten into the act. Read more | | Motorola Xoom pre-sale 'confirmed' for Feb. 20, Atrix 4G on Feb. 22 (updated) Yesterday, Motorola came clean with the $799 price tag for the 3G/4G Xoom tablet. Today, we might have a pre-sale date. Read more | | Bogus Android apps lead to malware Security researchers have detected a new trojan horse targeting Android users. Read more | | Sony unveils 17" and 25" Trimaster EL professional OLED displays Sony is updating its Trimaster EL monitor series with a pair of new OLED displays designed for professionals and critical evaluation application uses. Read more | | 68 percent of households have broadband More than 68 percent of Americans have high-speed broadband access, according to a government report. However, that percentage fluctuates based on education, race, family and location. Read more | | IBM Watson's next adventure: Healthcare with Nuance IBM has said its Watson computer would be applied beyond Jeopardy and now is making good on that promise. IBM and Nuance Communications have launched a research program to commercialize Watson for... Read more | | Mozilla: "Is IE9 a modern browser? NO" Mozilla's technical evangelist Paul Rouget tears into Microsoft, claiming that while Internet Explorer 9 is "definitely better than IE8 and a step in the right direction," it's still not a modern... Read more | | Windows 8 tablet sooner than we expect? Windows 8 is supposed to embrace the tablet form better than anything produced to date. Information leaked by Dell implies it will release a Windows 8 tablet in Q1 of 2012. Can that timetable be met? Read more | | Kno tablet shipments expected to start in two months In other e-reader news, the Kno educational tablet, which has been delayed a few times now, now has an actual expected launch plan. Read more | | Kobo reasserts independent status amid Borders bankruptcy It would be easy to confuse the Kobo eReader as Borders' official entry in the e-book reader market, but that would be wrong - and Kobo doesn't want you to make that mistake right now. Read more | | Driver sued for updating Facebook during fatal crash A wrongful death lawsuit is accusing a driver of updating Facebook on her cell phone, after she killed another driver standing outside of his car. Read more | | Man arrested over Facebook relationship status Changing your relationship status on Facebook isn't always taken lightly. In this case, it resulted in a very heated argument that required the law to sort out. Read more | | Microsoft puts Facebook into Bing Bar Microsoft's Bing partnership with Facebook sees no bounds: even toolbars can't hide forever. Read more | | Number of Facebook users in China septuples The number of Facebook users in China has septupled from around 100,000 to 700,000. The social network is still blocked by the Great Firewall of China. Read more |
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