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The most noticeable UI change is the move of the smaller tabs that were on top of the timeline to the right sidebar, where they can occupy more space, making them larger clicking targets. They also moved the following/followers/updates stats to the top of the page and made them larger, so now I can really see how deflated my follower numbers are.

The popular microblogging site Twitter announced and launched a refresh of its interface on its company blog Thursday. Upda

Noca is a smart company for the current economy. Credit is tight for everyone, including consumers, some of whom are losing or just throwing out their credit cards. Noca makes online purchasing easy and secure even without credit. And its lower fees could help make goods purchased online less expensive, too.

Gupta believes that the technology he’s built to link into the banks, prevent fraud, and do so cheaply is a competitive barrier. But I am surprised that his customer roster a

“During an otherwise routine software upgrade on Friday night, we ran into some problems with our photo storage and a few of the hard drives where we store photos apparently failed all at once,” Priestley wrote. “We’re trying to fully understand what happened, since simultaneous hardware failures like this are rare.”

But they aren’t permanently gone, the post by engineer Evan Priestley insisted. “We’ve already repaired about one-third of affected photos and expect to complete repair

• about:histograms graphs various performance measurements such as the time taken to autocomplete text users type into the browser.

Google’s Chrome browser has as Spartan a user interface as possible, but the browser’s Omnibox also turns out to be a window into a much more elaborate view of the browser.

One more tidbit for folks closely following Chrome: TG Daily uncovered a so-far hidden “themes” folder that’s empty for now but that presumably could be

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Another 9,100 people out of work is not a good thing, no matter how much you may dislike Microsoft.

But I still don’t want to see Microsoft layoffs. Not this Christmas. Not when the market can’t absorb the displaced employees. Microsofties have families, too.

I’ve been competing with Microsoft for years–at Lineo, Novell, and now Alfresco. But I can’t get even remotely excited by the prospect of a big layoff at the software giant, with some spe

Breaking: Twitter to start selling “I’m Famous For Real” badges! Money problem solved!

One more thing on a slightly unrelated note: Adams did touch upon the “How is Twitter going to make money?” question. “We are looking at commercial accounts. We see a lot of potential in adding that service that (lets) you know you’re talking to Shaq or that you know you’re talking to a certain celebrity, and to weed out impersonation,” he said, “without imposing fees on ex

Huawei has won smaller deals, like with regional, low-cost cell phone provider Leap Wireless, but for the most part, the company has struggled to get a toehold in the U.S. market.

Huawei had formed a joint venture with U.S.-based networking company 3Com in 2003. But 3Com’s business was in trouble and the company announced in 2007 that it would be sold to a private equity firm and Huawei. But the U.S. government blocked the purchase in 2008, citing security concerns.

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Advertising and marketing on social networks remains a touchy subject. Some companies have reported notable success, while others have experienced tepid results or even outright PR disasters.

That’s because, per the survey results, while 62 percent of survey respondents said they’d seen a brand page on a social network, only 48 percent actually said they’d signed on as fans. And while 84 percent said that they notice the presence of ads on social networks, 74 percent said they click

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Microsoft declined to comment on the report. It is worth noting that as of Friday, the market capitalization of Yahoo in its entirety was just shy of $16 billion. Microsoft was once willing to pay far more to get Yahoo, but a lot has changed since the early part of the year.

Since Microsoft made its last offer for Yahoo, Yahoo and Google have announced and abandoned a search deal, Yahoo’s shares have plummeted to single digits, and

It has these benefits and more, which have made open source increasingly big business. True, there are elements of control in any successful open-source business, making open source more akin to proprietary software than perhaps its adherents would like.

The secret is to use open source as a means to an end (PDF), not the end itself. Open source is a means to cheap distribution, a way to get software into the hands of would-be buyers at little to no cost. It’s a way to mak