- Microsoft lets in rivals to end 10-year web browser war with EU regulators | Business | guardian.co.uk
"From the spring, European web users running Windows 7, XP or Vista who have Internet Explorer as their default browser will be presented with a "ballot screen" that will offer them a dozen alternatives to choose from, including Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome and Apple's Safari." (competition microsoft internet_explorer windows )
- Technology news & features | Technology | guardian.co.uk
Lovely farewell to ten years of print as the Guardian Technology team lead a new era of journalism in pure-digital form: "That huge sucking sound? Well, that's the internet taking away the job adverts that paid for the print edition." (guardian journalism retrospective )
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- Facebook Could Learn a Thing or Two From LinkedIn's Faceted Search
"Business-oriented social network LinkedIn has a new feature out called faceted search. As you search for something or someone, it automatically generates search filters based on your query results that let you quickly refine your search. [...] While this is great for LinkedIn, it also reminds me of how plain and unusable Facebook’s search is by comparison. LinkedIn has a solid number of advanced options for its search to begin with; with the new faceted search, it really leaves Facebook’s search in the dust." (facebook search video linkedin )
- Mark Porter » Blog Archive » Interesting post on the NYT mag redesign…
"Its always amazing, and slightly scary, to see the resources that go into high-end American magazines. To British eyes its undoubtedly impressive, but I often get the feeling that the effort and manpower expended is out of proprtion to the results. In this case the ideas, the commissioning and some of the spreads are fantastic. But I cant say I think the new design is an improvement on the old one, and the format is definitely worse." (nytimes magazines design )
- Mobile Content Bits: Guardian iPhone App Pricing; Spotify Launches On 3; Telegraph App Figures | mocoNews
"Telegraph Media Group’s free news app has been downloaded 250,000 times via iPhone, BlackBerry, Android and Nokia (NYSE: NOK) phones, the company claims. TMG’s head of mobile Maani Safa says the app has recouped 10 times its launch costs due to sponsorship deals with Cisco (NSDQ: CSCO) and the Carbon Trust. Via NMA." (telegraph iphone mobile )
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