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Idea of the Week: Open Vs. Closed
On The Business Pages this week, Tim Wu has a story about the open-versus-closed debate in the technology industry.
Microsoft’s vision for coming years leaping through Technology. What a nice graphic design and intercations!
Is The Future This See-Through 3D Desktop?
Much as the industry is constantly evolving in terms of faster computers and ever more ingenious and polished operating systems, the very basic interaction between man and machine has remained pretty constant over the last decades. You still have a flat screen projecting flat images at a user sitting in front of it. Sure, some of these images may depict a three dimensional object, but the images themselves are still 2D. A project by Jinha Lee and Cati Boulanger, former intern and researcher respectively, at Microsoft Applied Sciences would change all that.
Microsoft Sketches Its Vision for the Near Future
Microsoft has laid out its vision for the next few years, and it’s a visual feast for techies and futurists.
The dialogue-less video follows a woman taking a business trip, her daughter doing homework and a man in Hong Kong taking the subway to work all against the backdrop of a pulsing electronica soundtrack.
Orgcharts by Manuel Cornet
(via swissmiss)
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How Companies Bypass High Income-Tax Rates in the US and UK
via Kurt White
Visualized: US smartphone market share, by manufacturer and platform
They say a picture is worth a thousand words — but in this case, a picture is worth tens of billions of dollars in market share. Nielsen has broken down its US smartphone market share stats between November and January in two dimensions — by market share and by platform — and stuffed all that data into a single block of mesmerizing color. It’s interesting to see the Apple and RIM juggernauts flanked by two imposing, red slivers of HTC, isn’t it?
