News from ZDNet | | | Yahoo's Bartz era: The non-stop drama in her own words Why did Carol Bartz have to go? She tells the tale in her own words during investor calls. Read more | | Google under siege: Korean authorities raid Seoul office Korean antitrust officials have raided Google's local office for the second time in just a few months. Read more | | Nvidia predicting up to $5 billion in revenue in fiscal 2013 GPU maker Nvidia is anticipating a higher revenue stream than Wall Street predicts. Read more | | Microsoft renews its real-time search vows with Twitter Microsoft and Twitter have signed a deal via which real-time search results from Twitter will be displayed via Bing. The pair aren't disclosing further details or terms. Read more | | Dell giving tablets another try with help from Baidu Despite the failure of one of its Streak products, Dell is teaming up with China-based Baidu to develop new tablets. Read more | | Google ramps up its data portability as a weapon push Will data portability ultimately win over consumers? Google thinks so, but it's too early to tell. Read more | | Over a quarter of U.S. adults use location-based mobile services New research shows that geo-based services for directions, recommendations and even checking into locations is growing significantly among U.S. mobile users. Read more | | Though iPhone 5 is imminent, older model still tops in U. S. The iPhone 5 release is nearing, but the older model is still outpacing the competition in the U. S. Read more | | Android: Another fork in the code by Baidu A Chinese company will produce its own mobile OS using Google's free Android at its core, but little else. It will leverage Google's work to compete with it in the giant Chinese phone market. Read more | | App stores expose old-fashioned enterprise IT Developing apps in private is so last-century. The advent of app stores points to a future when even enterprise apps will be developed and shared in public. Read more | | Notebook OEMs playing it safe with Ultrabooks, limiting shipment volumes Intel hopes that Ultrabooks will account for 40% of the global consumer notebook shipments by 2012, but OEMs are playing it safe. Read more | | What do you think? Should I dump MacOS Lion? Apple's MacOS Lion upgrade appears to have downgraded my ability to back up my files. Should I dump it and go back to Snow Leapord? Read more | | Staples has 32 GB HP Touchpads at 'new low price' of $500? Is Staples' ad for the 32 GB HP Touchpad an honest mistake or opportunistic move to gouge unsuspecting customers still hunting for an elusive webOS tablet? Read more | | How Google can help save "journalism" now that AOL has botched its attempt With its data, companies like Google, Facebook and Twitter could help identify which blog posts, news stories and even tweets are worthy of being labeled "journalism." Read more | | Facebook for iOS version 3.5 is out Facebook for iOS version 3.5 has changed the way you share content, and its privacy settings, to be more inline with the service's changes on the desktop Web version. Read more |
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