Mobile, editorial, tech Jason England Mobile, editorial, tech Jason England

Editorial: The Android design guide is not enough. Close the OS

So the Head of design at Android, Matias Duarte, officially unveiled the Android design guide via a live Q&A session on The Verge: a set of in-depth guidelines for app developers and OEMs alike to keep within sync of the design language of Android 4.0.  Instantly, this is already a much better direction, with an aim of ecosystem defragmentation in mind; but then we began to think of what we thought to be the failings of Android phones we have owned in the past.

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Feature, social media Jason England Feature, social media Jason England

All about the new Twitter.com

So if you've been on Twitter over the past 12 hours, you'll have noticed that things look a little different to say the least.  The social microblogging service received a major upgrade, packing new functions and an all new design, forming the most significant update of Twitter yet.  Here's what has changed both on the face of it and under the hood.

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