The apparent shift in direction away from adopting a graduate tax has been welcomed by university groups.

BBC: Pat McFadden

On the right, meanwhile - and in business - there are many who applaud the president's apparent change of direction but fear he lacks the will to see it to a conclusion.

BBC: France economy: Francois Hollande does business

Google is wise to respond to the growing public antipathy toward its autonomous decision making on what you and I see in the form of ads and in the results we get to searches and Google is to be commended for its apparent reversal of direction.

FORBES: Google, Obama & The Online User Manifesto

The head-tracking system, which was developed by the Fraunhofer Heinrich-Hertz Institute in Germany, works by calculating how far away a head is, based on its apparent size (the direction is obvious, of course).

ECONOMIST: Monitor