user design in news
Microsoft files lawsuits in malicious-ad crackdown
News Microsoft told silicon.com sister site CNET News: "Scareware is often distributed among criminals, which therefore results in many of the animations a user may see utilising a common design and interface. [18 Sep 2009]
PayPal goes plastic with debit cards aimed at students - and their parents
News Don Fotsch, who is PayPal's VP of user experience and design, told me that you cannot currently do this - but that it would be worked in by the time some of the early users reached that point. The other... [12 Aug 2009]
Is Chrome ready to shine when it comes to security?
News When a new update is available on the Google server, the client automatically downloads and installs it in the background without prompting the user. The Chrome browser itself is fairly hardened, and we hope they move... [23 Jul 2009]
Windows Video ActiveX Control at risk from flaw
News Microsoft on Monday warned of a vulnerability in its Video ActiveX Control that could allow an attacker to take control of a PC if the user visits a malicious website. If the user is logged in with... [07 Jul 2009]
Facebook opens arms to OpenID
News For the past few years, Facebook has been flirting with the possibility of supporting the OpenID log-in standard, which calls itself "an open, decentralised, free framework for user-centric digital identity" without... [19 May 2009]
Facebook grumblers prompt a layout change
News Photo tags: Facebook will add photos tagged with a person's friends to the user's stream. While the social network isn't reverting back to the old page design, it is making a handful of changes to... [25 Mar 2009]
Facebook slams gov't snooping plans
News We think monitoring all user traffic is overkill," Kelly said. There are design and computing-power limitations, and strategic limits on human power to analyse all that information," Kelly said.... [25 Mar 2009]
PC makers warming to OLPC's 'copy us' offer?
News A Dell spokesperson told ZDNet Asia the company does not believe in a "one-size-fits-all approach", adding that user demands differ according to markets or need. Whitebox vendors in Asia may warm up to the One Laptop Per... [02 Mar 2009]
'Less annoying' Windows 7 security paves way for malware?
News As for the broader issue with regards to the User Account Control (UAC) feature, Microsoft says that the criticisms don't take into account real-world behaviour. The latest issue, he says, could allow a program to... [05 Feb 2009]
£7bn MoD IT project: Late, overbudget, unloved
News Where the DII system has been rolled out, PAC also noted rates of user dissatisfaction are significant. The report states: "At least 40 per cent of users declared themselves dissatisfied with DII in the first... [15 Jan 2009]
Touchscreen tablet latest Classmate for Intel
News Another feature is dubbed "palm rejection" - in tablet mode, the user can rest their palm on the touchscreen while writing, without the screen registering the palm's pressure as input. Intel has revealed the... [13 Jan 2009]
Beta Web workers coming soon to Firefox 3.1
News One thread emulates the processor in the background while another handles user interaction such as checking for typing on the keyboard. He gave one illustration of Web workers in action running a JavaScript program that... [05 Dec 2008]
IBM offers clouds stamp of approval
News Cloud computing is a model for services delivered over a network in which the user only sees the network and does not have to be concerned with any systems or infrastructure requirements, according to IBM. [26 Nov 2008]
Qualcomm Brews up an SDK for mobile OS
News The new SDK is designed to help developers design applications, widgets and custom user interfaces, Qualcomm said. Qualcomm on Monday introduced its software developer kit for its Brew Mobile Platform, a... [18 Nov 2008]
The 10 projects at the heart of NHS IT
News The ones where there is bad political interference, where there is no user input into design or are doing things that users do not want, those are the ones that predictably fail," Cundy told silicon.com. [10 Nov 2008]
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