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Apple Vs. Microsoft

Great analysis (yet again) by Horace Dediu of asymco: Comparing top lines: Apple vs. Microsoft: The Mac business generates more Revenue than Windows iOS powered devices generate more revenue than all of Microsoft’s products put together Also, Apple’s growth since 2007 was over 400%. Microsoft, 26%. Stunning. (Via asymco)

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Microsoft Kills the Zune, Nobody Notices

I seriously thought Microsoft killed off the Zune over a year ago. I thought they replaced with with something else like the Kin or Windows Mobile or that tablet they announced last year (and this year, for that matter). The Zune Is Finally Dead – Business Insider via @fromedome

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Hotmail Gets Pushy

Microsoft is adding enabling push notifications to Hotmail through its Excahnge ActiveSync features. Yahoo has had push email for the longest time and Google recently enabled it some months ago. They’re also adding some social networking features, too. Its nice to see Microsoft, um, innovating again. Coming soon to Hotmail, push email for mobile phones [...]

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Cool Data Visualizations

From Google Buzz, founder & CEO of Seesmic, Loic Le Meur, shared a recent Harvard Business Review article discussing the visualization of Twitter’s stream. Its a fascinating read just for the inferences one can get from the data. The article uses different trend analysis projects like Twitter Spectrum, TwitterVenn, and StreamGraphs to highlight comparisons between [...]

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