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With Microsoft’s stumbling with the lauch of Vista has come a litany of stories about the demise of Windows as the IT industries richest franchise. However it’s death, if evident, will be slow and painful and will be a result of lots of small cuts, not a wholesale shift to [...]

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With the departure of Bill Gates from the day to day running of Microsoft it marks an end of an era for Microsoft and one of the truly great business icons. However Gates is not remarkable for the technology he produced, but for his ability to transform [...]

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In the midst of the Yahoo Microsoft battle, the acquisition of Danger by Microsoft has taken a back seat. However this particular purchase is the new face of Microsoft even more so than Yahoo that will maintain a degree of automony.
Danger is a manufacturer of handsets and the operating system within. It also provides the [...]

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 According to Forrester Research [via CNET] the Zune Market Share (read awareness) is smaller than a rounding error for the poll:
When researchers asked MP3 player owners which one they bought most recently, the Zune was in second-to-last place, with only 2% of respondents naming it. Nearly everybody else–Toshiba (2%), iRiver (3%), Samsung (4%), Coby (4%), [...]

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Something just struck me reading Microsoft, The Jekyll And Hyde Of Companies from Techcrunch. Duncan Riley reports from the floor of the Mix conference in Las Vegas.
As part of the press package was an 8GB Zune which Duncan tried to use:
As part of my press accreditation I received a free 8gb Zune. They don’t sell [...]

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Intuit was founded in 1983 by Scott Cook and Tom Proulx in Mountain View, California. It made it’s mark in the software industry with it’s friendly personal accounting tools such as Quicken and TurboTax and it’s small business software Quickbooks. With revenues of over $2 Billion, Intuit is the leader in the personal finance and [...]

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In our ongoing series on technology that has gone the way of the dinosaur, this week Polaroid announced the demise of the instant camera with the closure of the manufacturing:
Yesterday, the company behind the iconic instant camera announced it was to stop making the film used by Polaroid enthusiasts, because there is no longer a [...]

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The big numbers story this January is that General Motors has held on to it’s spot as number one car manufacturer in the US over Toyota who has beaten Ford for the first time:
Toyota sold 48,226 more cars and trucks than Ford, according to sales figures released today. Toyota’s sales were up 3 percent for [...]

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Kia have announced the 2008 Kia Spectra. It includes AM/FM CD player, 15″ steel wheels, 4 wheel disc brakes and auxiliary audio input jack for your zune…

If you like the Kia Spectra, you will love the new Zen-killer Zune 2.0 (catch a social). With exciting features like it plays music and photos and video (sometimes), [...]

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Many true words said in jest…..

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