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Internet TV (IPTV) Growth

April 19, 2011

30% of US households have an Internet-connected TV.

Microsoft Kinect Sales Record

March 10, 2011

Microsoft’s Kinect for the Xbox 360 sold through an average of 133,333 units per day in its first 60 days on sale.

Death Of Email

December 27, 2010

Total unique US visitors to major e-mail sites like Yahoo and Hotmail peaked in November 2009 and have since slid 6%.

The History Of Comic Sans

July 29, 2010

Font designer Vincent Connare talks about the history of his most famous work, Comic Sans.

YouTube Leanback & Google’s Grab For Ground Zero

July 13, 2010

Ground Zero in the attention economy is clearly the home entertainment system, with players like Microsoft (with Xbox Live), Apple and Google positioning themselves to be your television gateway to the Internet. Google’s new video interface, YouTube Leanback, is another piece of their puzzle.

Two Big Things: Microsoft Kinect & Google TV

June 16, 2010

Microsoft Kinect ushers in the age of natural computing while Google brings the Internet into the living room in high def glory.

Microsoft Launches Windows Phone 7

February 15, 2010

Microsoft has unveiled details about its latest mobile operating system, Windows Phone 7. Highlights include Xbox Live & Zune integration with social media status updates.

Microsoft Live Labs’ Pivot Visualization Tool

November 19, 2009

ReadWriteWeb reports that Microsoft’s Live Labs has launched Pivot, a fun, powerful discovery tool…[that]…allows for truly intuitive exploration of information.

The One Big Thing: Real-Time Conversational Context In Search – The Twitter Search Deals

October 23, 2009

The One Big Thing you need to know about this week is that Google and Bing have cut deals for access to real-time conversation data from Twitter (in the case of Google) and both Twitter and Facebook (in the case of Bing).

Microsoft Releases Windows 7

October 22, 2009

Microsoft’s Windows Vista is out of beta! After the troublesome release of Windows Vista, Microsoft is taking a chance on the newest form of its operating system, Windows 7.

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