News from ZDNet | | | HP swaps WebOS leaders, Rubinstein gets 'product innovation role' HP will install Stephen DeWitt as general manager of its webOS unit. Jon Rubinstein, who led webOS at Palm and HP, will take "a product innovation role" at HP's PC unit. Read more | | Why do people choose Android smartphones? Why do people choose an Android handset over the iPhone? Read more | | Acer's tablet: dawdle on software and die The Iconia A500 would have been more successful had it gotten its Honeycomb 3.1 act in order quickly. Read more | | Microsoft makes it official: New beta of Windows Intune 2.0 available for download Microsoft is making a beta of the next release of its Windows Intune available for download on July 11, officials announced during the Worldwide Partner Conference 2011. Read more | | Google+ looking to piggyback off Gmail; integration aplenty Google is looking to leverage Gmail to integrate its Google+ social networking tools and plans several integrations ahead between the two services. Read more | | Getting a user-friendly Web address on Google Plus You may already have a unique, user-friendly Google+ Web site, without needing to do anything. Here's how it works. Read more | | Google Plus: The anti-privacy machine? Many web users do not recognize the importance of privacy and security, a problem destined to become much worse before it gets better. Read more | | Facebook blocks Open-Xchange contact exporter tool Facebook has blocked another tool that lets you export your Facebook friends so you can import them elsewhere, like to Google+. Read more | | Google+ spurs margin worry, questions about ROI for search giant Google appears to have generated some social networking buzz with its Google+ effort, but Wall Street analysts are already wondering about return on investment and the hit to profit margins. Read more | | Apple's App Store economics: Average paid app sale price goes for $1.44 App prices on Apple's App Store are rebounding 14 percent in 2011 compared to an 18 percent decline in 2010 and the company's average selling price is $1.44. Of that sum, Apple's gets an average... Read more | | Why Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is so bullish on Bing Microsoft's Bing search engine is one of the Microsoft products that Redmond's shareholders -- not to mention many Wall Streeters who watch Microsoft -- love to hate. But Microsoft CEO Steve... Read more | | Generation Y: Buck up, work harder; you're letting the side down It's not every day I sit down, start writing, and rage about the generation I do my best to represent on a vast scale. Today was that day. Read more | | Google Science Fair features projects on energy, cancer research (photos) Google's Science Fair came to a close today with participants from three age groups (all in their teens) flown in from all over the world. Here's a look at the top 15 entries this year. Read more | | Two newspapers to sell Android tablets with digital subscriptions The Philadelphia Inquirer and the Philadelphia Daily News, both published by Philadelphia Media Network, will sell Android tablets this year with subscriptions to both newspapers in digital form. Read more |
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