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Technology Relevance and the Yahoo MSN Mashup

February 10th, 2008 · No Comments

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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Tags: Microsoft · Polariod · Web 2.0 · Yahoo

Personal Computing Gets Interesting in 2008

January 3rd, 2008 · No Comments

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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Tags: IPhone · MacOSX · Microsoft · iPod

Kia Spectra to Support Zune 2.0 Player

November 29th, 2007 · No Comments

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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Tags: Microsoft · zune

Microsoft Surface Computer

October 21st, 2007 · 2 Comments

Many true words said in jest…..

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Microsoft OPhone

October 16th, 2007 · 1 Comment

 Microsoft OPhone, the next wave in mobile phones..
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Irrelevant Zune Player

September 10th, 2007 · No Comments

Not being one to bash the steady stream of mediocre late-to-market poorly executed products but the really the Zune characterizes the poor state of Microsoft product management. It is a good example of how when you have some money you can screw it up and when you have a lot of money you can really [...]

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Tags: Microsoft · Uncool · zune

Fake Zune Monkey Dance Ad

August 1st, 2007 · No Comments

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Tags: Microsoft · zune

X Marks The Box

July 15th, 2007 · No Comments

Microsoft’s XBox woes continue this week with further allegations that the failure rate for XBoxes are significantly higher than the competition. While Microsoft is claiming that the industry average is 3-5%, but:
The billion-dollar figure also indicates that Microsoft’s repeated insistence that the failure rate was about average for such hardware — that is, between 3 [...]

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Tags: Microsoft · Xbox

Microsoft Launches MSCoffeeTables

May 30th, 2007 · No Comments

With the failure of the Windows Media Center to make a dent in the next battle ground for home entertainment, the living room, Microsoft has released MS Coffee Table 1.0 or MS Surface.
Microsoft Surface, which has a 76cm (30-inch) display under a hard-plastic tabletop, allows people to touch and move objects on screen for everything [...]

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Tags: Blogroll · Microsoft

Microsoft Bollification of Vista Sales

March 27th, 2007 · No Comments

Microsoft was quick to announce that they had sold 20 Million units of Vista but according to Seattle PI:
Given that the personal-computer market has nearly doubled since Windows XP launched, Windows Vista sales “probably should be more,” said Michael Silver, vice president of research at Gartner, a technology research group. The analyst said 51 million [...]

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Tags: Market Share · Microsoft · Vista