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/ 13 January 2011
Microsoft’s R472-million black empowerment deal is due to come to fruition after months of delays and discussions with government.
Microsoft’s decision to make its new operating system run on Arm chips will leave it playing catch-up in the growing tablet computer market.
Tablet computers will lead a host of "smart" gadgets in the Nevada desert this week at the Consumer Electronics Show.
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/ 17 November 2010
From Crocs making a comeback to the home entertainment centre of the future, Faranaaz rounds up her weekly five items of quirky news.
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/ 12 November 2010
Microsoft SA launched Xbox Live and Kinect with lots of promises but there are still a few ghosts in the machine.
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/ 1 November 2010
The DBE is aiming to utilise technology as a developmental tool for teacher education as well as integrating it into the school curriculum.
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/ 27 October 2010
Two Western Cape schools have become the first participants in a global project aimed at addressin g pressing environmental issues using technology.
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/ 19 October 2010
Hundreds of teachers, education leaders and tech experts will gather in Cape Town next week for the finals of the World Innovative Education Forum.
Microsoft unveiled a new mobile phone operating system on Monday as it seeks to regain ground lost to the iPhone and Blackberry.
Virus-infected computers should be blocked from the internet and kept in quarantine until they are given a "health certificate".
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/ 30 September 2010
It’s been eight years since SA’s biggest gaming expo started and rAge — the Really Awesome Gaming Expo — is going from strength to strength.
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/ 15 September 2010
Microsoft South Africa’s 2010 Innovative Teachers’ Awards competition is off to a flying start with the first group of winners announced.
To equip children for the workplace in the 21st century, conventional teaching must give way to the use of technology.
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/ 1 September 2010
Microsoft has launched an advertising platform in China in an attempt to grab market share from rival Google.
A decade ago a sneak preview of the next version of Microsoft Windows would have been news for weeks — and not just in the tech press.
Stop a passerby and ask them "what is the internet?" Their answer is guaranteed to focus on technology.
Microsoft has finally unveiled and revealed the real name of its motion sensing video game device, previously known as Project Natal: Kinect.
Google is reported to be getting rid of desktop PCs running Microsoft Windows across the corporation to eliminate a security risk.
Microsoft is to invest almost half-a-billion rand over the next seven years into the local software industry, the company said on Friday.
Rupert Murdoch has warned that Google and Microsoft’s access to his newspapers could be limited once he erects a pay wall around his titles’ websites.
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/ 9 February 2010
The latest version of Office has lots of new bells and whistles — none of which will make either Adobe or Google happy.
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/ 3 February 2010
I don’t think there’s much doubt about whether you’re safer using Windows or Mac OS X: the answer is Mac OS X.
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/ 26 January 2010
Microsoft founder Bill Gates plays down Beijing’s attempts to stifle dissent on the internet as "very limited".
Microsoft plans to get its Natal body-gesturing gaming system into stores in time for this year’s holiday shopping season.
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/ 27 December 2009
While it got off to a rocky start with the Y2K bug and dotcom bubble, the era dubbed the "Digital Decade" has turned out to be a dizzying period of in
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/ 29 November 2009
Google has launched its Chrome OS operating system — but it may mean Google controls your netbook as Apple controls your iPhone.
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/ 25 November 2009
In cosying up to Google’s main competitor, Bing, Rupert Murdoch proves once again that he can’t be dismissed so easily.
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/ 23 November 2009
Microsoft has held talks with News Corp over a possible plan for the software giant to pay the media company to remove its news websites from Google.
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/ 23 October 2009
The first thing you’ll notice about Windows 7 is that it looks like Vista. It also works like Vista, except for a very welcome graphics upgrade.
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/ 18 October 2009
Somewhere in your email inbox last week you may have received from an acquaintance an invitation to a "Windows 7 Launch Party".
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/ 27 September 2009
Bill Gates may have beaten Steve Jobs to combining computer power and paper notebook convenience in a single lightweight device.