Posts Tagged ‘Microsoft’
Internet TV (IPTV) Growth
30% of US households have an Internet-connected TV.
Read MoreMicrosoft Kinect Sales Record
Microsoft’s Kinect for the Xbox 360 sold through an average of 133,333 units per day in its first 60 days on sale.
Read MoreDeath Of Email
Total unique US visitors to major e-mail sites like Yahoo and Hotmail peaked in November 2009 and have since slid 6%.
Read MoreThe History Of Comic Sans
Font designer Vincent Connare talks about the history of his most famous work, Comic Sans.
Read MoreYouTube Leanback & Google’s Grab For Ground Zero
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.
Read MoreTwo Big Things: Microsoft Kinect & Google TV
Microsoft Kinect ushers in the age of natural computing while Google brings the Internet into the living room in high def glory.
Read MoreMicrosoft Launches Windows Phone 7
Microsoft has unveiled details about its latest mobile operating system, Windows Phone 7. Highlights include Xbox Live & Zune integration with social media status updates.
Read MoreMicrosoft Live Labs' Pivot Visualization Tool
ReadWriteWeb reports that Microsoft’s Live Labs has launched Pivot, a fun, powerful discovery tool…[that]…allows for truly intuitive exploration of information.
Read MoreThe One Big Thing: Real-Time Conversational Context In Search – The Twitter Search Deals
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).
Read MoreMicrosoft Releases Windows 7
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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