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November 23, 2012
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Facebook has announced plans to remove the option for user votes inimportant site decisions. User voting was introduced in 2009, but has seen very little user input and represents a very small percentage of active users. In a post on the company blog announcing the change, VP Elliot Schrage said the process was being abandoned 'in favour of a system that leads to more meaningful feedback and engagement.' The blog post also promised users new ways to field their queries and input on the site, including live...

November 23, 2012
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Former Apple engineer Patrick Gibson has joined Apple critics in sayingthat the company should buy Twitter due to poor understanding of web-based services. Other reasons for support of the proposed purchase have been that Apple's apps and services lack sociability, and that past attempts to offer online services (such as Ping and Game Center) have been ineffective. 'Google is getting better at design faster than Apple is getting better at web services. I'm a diehard Apple fan [but] almost anything Apple does which involves the internet is...

November 23, 2012
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A retinal prosthesis has allowed a blind patient to read letters with an89 percent accuracy, and two-letter words with 80%, as published by a team of neuroscientists at Brown University this week. The original prosthesis included a retinal implant and an eye-mounted camera, and allowed the patient to read words in less than half a second. An improved model, released since the paper's submission in July, has removed the need for the camera and relies solely on impulses from the implant to enable fluid reading. To read...

November 23, 2012
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An official badge has been made available for businesses and personalbloggers to promote their Instagram web profiles.   The badges feature a monochrome version of the photo sharing site's logo and will fit uniformly with other social networking site badges.   The introduction of the Instagram badge has come only two weeks after the previously mobile app-only service first introduced web profiles.   Read the full story here >>   Photo: Eric Ward  ...

November 23, 2012
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Apple have introduced significant one-day discounts on many of theirproducts in the UK and US for the Black Friday sale. UK deals include an 81 saving on MacBook Pro and 31 off the new iPad with Retina display. US Apple stores have offered $101 savings on their MacBook Pro and MacBook Air models. Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving, is observed in America as the first day of the Christmas shopping season, and some UK retailers have begun to introduce similar sales. Read the full story here...

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