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Internet explorer: microsoft plans ‘silent’ updates

Jan
2012
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From January, Internet Explorer (IE) users will be automatically updated to the latest version of the browser. Microsoft said it was starting the project to update millions of machines to improve security online. Future updates to the browser would be applied without a user’s knowledge to help beat scammers catching people out with fake updates. [...]

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Guess what the biggest topic on facebook was this year

Dec
2011
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The death of Osama bin Laden. 10 percent of all status updates (in English) mentioned Osama bin Laden in the days following his death, according to a Facebook blog outlining the top ten global trends in 2011. Coming in second was Green Bay Packers beating the Pittsburgh Steelers in the Super Bowl. Charlie Sheen was winning in March, if you recall. [...]

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Is google chrome the new IE6?

Dec
2011
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Let me tell you about a browser. An innovative browser that was the first to implement new Web technologies that allowed for greater interactivity. A browser with a striking new interface. Chrome? No: Internet Explorer 6. There’s a reason that Microsoft’s browser took over 95 percent of the Web browser market from Netscape (Firefox’s ancestor): [...]

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Happy responsive christmas

Dec
2011
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Here are the 20 most shared articles on facebook in 2011

Dec
2011
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Facebook just posted a list of the most shared articles on Facebook in 2011. They range from the serious (articles about the tsunami in Japan) to the silly (“No, Your Zodiac Sign Hasn’t Changed”). There’s even an article about a giant crocodile that made the list. Read more By Ellis Hamburger for Business Insider, 29 Nov 2011.

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Tech firm implements employee ‘zero email’ policy

Dec
2011
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You’ve got mail–not. Employees of tech company Atos will be banned from sending emails under the company’s new “zero email” policy. CEO Thierry Breton of the French information technology company said only 10 percent of the 200 messages employees receive per day are useful and 18 percent is spam.  That’s why he hopes the company can eradicate internal emails in 18 [...]

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Venturing into responsive design

Dec
2011
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A couple of weeks ago, I summarized a few thoughts on mobile web apps vs native apps. Responsive web design is one approach to making mobile web apps and web sites. In short, responsive design is essentially a way to make your website’s design fit across all sorts of screen sizes. When implemented well, your design [...]

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Born with IOS: techno-toddlers: a is for apple

Dec
2011
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In the last chapter of her novel A Visit From The Goon Squad, Jennifer Egan imagines a dystopian near future in which toddlers in the year 2020 download music to their ubiquitous “kiddie handsets”, which also feature “finger drawing, GPS systems for babies just learning to walk, PicMail”. But if that’s the future, it’s already here. There [...]

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Responsive web design and mobile devices

Dec
2011
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Nowadays, people access the Internet from an ever-growing range of devices with very different screen sizes and controls (mouse vs fingers). This poses some very real design and usability issues because most websites are only designed to be viewed on big screens and navigated by mouse. This is clearly the old way of doing things – [...]

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Hardware companies will have to quit the tablet market in 2012

Dec
2011
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Because hardware companies like Dell, HP, and Acer have so few advantages over companies that offer content as well, DigiTimes reports that they may be getting out of the tablet game entirely next year. Content companies like Amazon or Barnes & Noble can subsidize their tablets like crazy — they’ll make their money back after the fact as customers buy content [...]

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