Daily Dispatch: Google brings consumer ratings to search results; Dell smartphones revealed

Combing through hundreds of blog posts and news articles daily, Dirk Klingner, our technology-trend watcher, sifts through the noise to bring you the tech news most important to consumers. If you have a tip on a story you want to share, leave a comment below.

Under a new partnership between Google and Bazaarvoice, retailers and manufacturers can display their online product reviews and ratings within their AdWords ad campaigns - as well as have them appear in product searches on Google.com.

Microsoft workers use Facebook, Twitter most (msnbc)

Twitter and Facebook are the bane of many bosses, but a new survey has found that employees at Microsoft are the most social media-savvy in the world.

Trio of leaked phones reveal an ambitious Dell (cnet)

...Wednesday saw Engadget leaking three new phones from the handsetmaker's road map. Looking through the various details and specs, one gets the sense that Dell has lofty ambitions for the platform, going so far as to create its own user interface called Stage. Based on the few pictures available, the experience looks stylish, sleek, and classy.

Dragon for Email hits BlackBerry, turns your voice into a QWERTY keyboard (engadget mobile)

...Dragon for Email is exactly what it sounds like, an app that brings Nuance's well-known speech-to-text technology to the BlackBerry platform with a special emphasis on composing emails.

the dirty dozen cheat sheet (My Paper Crane)

...That being said I wanted a handy way to remember the "dirty dozen" (or foods with the highest pesticide residue which was measured after washing and or peeling) and the "clean fifteen" (or foods with the lowest or no pesticide residue) Because sometimes I can't find something organically and need to decide if I am still going to buy an onion or not ;)

Lighter Side: Fordham baseball player Brian Kownacki an internet sensation after acrobatic flip over Iona catcher (Daily News)

...So Kownacki did something he had never attempted before: he leaped head-first over the catcher, James Beck, performed a front flip and landed safely at home. Iona manager Pat Carey put up an argument, but the digital movie clearly shows that Kownacki was never tagged and that he remained legally in the air space directly above the base path.