News from ZDNet | | | Intel: 'Most significant' tech announcement on deck Intel is planning a press conference touting "its most significant technology announcement of the year." Read more | | Google takes top spot in reputation rankings; Apple, Intel, Amazon close behind Google ranked highest in corporate reputation, according to a Harris Interactive survey. Among tech companies, Apple, Intel and Amazon also rated highly. Read more | | Mac OS, iPhone and iPad see record market share gains in April With another month checked off, it's time to trawl through the NetMarketShare data for January to see who are the winners and who are the losers. Read more | | RIM's PlayBook: Early read is that it's selling say analysts With Research in Motion's BlackBerry World kicking off---and a new BlackBerry Bold with touch---all eyes remain on the PlayBook and whether the company's savior tablet will sell. Read more | | BlackBerry Balance quietly walls off corporate and personal data BlackBerry Balance offers a more elegant way to segregate corporate data and personal data in order to protect both the company and the individual employees. Read more | | BlackBerry PlayBook adds video calling and Facebook apps The BlackBerry PlayBook badly needs more useful apps. At BlackBerry World, RIM helped its cause with a new video chat app as well as a Facebook app that could beat iOS and Android to the punch. Read more | | RIM unveils BlackBerry Bold 9900 and 9930 smartphones Research in Motion has unveiled a pair of new smartphones at BlackBerry World in Orlando on Monday. Both the BlackBerry Bold 9900 and 9930 are based on the new BlackBerry OS 7 platform. Read more | | Augmented reality coming to BlackBerry phones with Wikitude Via the Wikitude World Browser, BlackBerry owners will be able to get information on a location just pointing at it with their phones. Read more | | Microsoft to deliver Windows Thin PC to customers by June 30 On May 2, Microsoft made the Release Candidate (RC) test build of its Windows Thin PC available for download by testers. Windows Thin PC (Win TPC) is the successor to Windows Fundamentals for... Read more | | Microsoft's plan to increase its focus on developers: The full internal memo The move of Microsoft Corporate Vice President Scott Guthrie from the .Net developer platform to heading up the newly created Azure Application Platform team is just one part of the Server and... Read more | | Microsoft reorg: Scott Guthrie to head new Azure Application Platform team The expected MIcrosoft Server and Tools Business (STB) reorg was announced inside the company on May 2. And as my sources indicated last week, Scott Guthrie, the current Corporate Vice President... Read more | | Microsoft's Project Barcelona (and other codenames worth watching) A new Microsoft metadata server, codenamed "Barcelona," is one of several new entries on this month's Codetracker. The latest free version is downloadable now. Read more | | Fan of the Atrix Dock? Motorola says prepare for more Undeterred by the lukewarm reception of its Atrix 4G and adjoining dock, Motorola is preparing a number of new Lapdock phones for the second half of the year. Read more | | Osama Bin Laden killed: Twitter's moment?!? Um no. As reports that the U.S. took out Osama bin Laden spread, Twitter once again revealed itself as a great tool. But bin Laden's death was a far bigger moment than Twitter's tale. Read more | | CIOs: At What Stage is Your Thinking on Cloud Economics? Cloud computing can save you money - but will it? Read more |
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