Features

• Study: Facebook relies on good design to retain users

  By Joab Jackson | 10 May, 2012 07:12

  What is Facebook's secret to keeping the world's largest user base content? Sticking to well-proven software design principles, one study has concluded.

• Apple and Hulu: Not so strange bedfellows?

  By Dan Moren | 27 July, 2011 00:41

  Why the heck would Apple want to buy Hulu?

• In HTML5 war, Microsoft guy slams "President of the United States of Google"

  By Jon Brodkin | 13 January, 2011 04:35

  Microsoft and Google are fighting yet another public relations battle, this time over the HTML5 video standards to be used in the next generation of Web browsers.

• Has Digg dug its own grave?

  By Brennon Slattery | 01 September, 2010 08:13

  Some people just don't like change. Less than a week after Digg released version 4 of its social news-sharing site, fans have rebelled, flooding Digg with links from a rival sharing site, staging a "Quit Digg Day," and prophesying a major drop-off in traffic if the site doesn't return to its roots. Has Digg dug its grave, or is this yet another kneejerk neophobic reaction?

• SAP-Sybase: What to expect in the first 90 days

  By Chris Kanaracus | 23 July, 2010 05:51

  Now that SAP's roughly $US6 billion acquisition of Sybase has gained clearance from European regulators, it may not be long before the deal is finalised. With that in mind, users and partners of the companies have much to consider during the next few months, analysts say.

• Yahoo developer tool identifies locations in apps, docs

  By Juan Carlos Perez | 21 May, 2009 05:27

  Yahoo has created a technology that simplifies and automates for developers the process of identifying geographical references in the content that their applications process.