Usability Guru Pours Cold Water on Kindle Fire

What’s annoying, heavy and slow and suffers from bad UI design?
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Yahoo, a Division of Microsoft Corp.

Why would Microsoft pay such a premium for Yahoo, given slowing growth in display advertising? The Nielsen Norman Group’s Jakob Nielsen has an idea or two. Here’s one of them: Web-mail-associated searches. When they want to search, a lot of users go for the nearest ‘type-in place’ they can find. So if a search box [...]