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Thursday, 29th September 2011

Google News Redesigns UK & India Sites

Google News just announced a redesign of its U.K. and India sites in order to unify the experience across editions. The improvements are designed to be more browsable and present trending and popular stories more clearly, as well as to offer more customization and sharing options. The U.S. edition was redesigned in May, introducing a one-column…

Jon Mitchell comments

Facebook: It's Time for Moderation

The answer is to moderate our use of and dependence on social media, especially Facebook. Frictionless sharing, the act of passively notifying social media of all manner of activity, scares the hell out of me. Not just because of the obvious privacy implications. Frictionless sharing turns up the volume on useless information and simultaneously…

Enterprise Joe Brockmeier comments

Big Answer: The Onion Reactions

The outrage over The Onion's Orson Wells-like faux terrorism tweets today has touched off a firestorm. Is The Onion shining a needed light on our reactionary culture? Should comedians be allowed to do whatever they deem satirical? Even we could not agree, as you can see in the comments within our post on The Onion's #CongressHostage…

Robyn Tippins comments

Are You Ready for Windows in Your Things?

We've heard the phrase "Windows Everywhere" for some decades now, and many of us already came to the conclusion that if you someday carried Windows with you wherever you go, that's what it meant. Windows Embedded is a phrase we haven't found ourselves saying as often, though it's been around for five years and its predecessor, Windows CE, since…

Scott M. Fulton comments

Mobile Usage Peaks During Prime Time

U.S. consumers are still watching TV during the hours traditionally defined as "prime time," but we're also face-to-face with our second -and sometimes third - screens during those hours, according to a tidbit of data released by Flurry. By layering their data about iOS and Apple data usage on top of a chart from Ad Age showing TV and Web…

Mobile John Paul Titlow comments

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