Next year will be a decisive one for Microsoft as it readies new products to fend off challengers in the consumer technology market. Its upcoming touch and tablet-friendly operating system, Windows 8, will be an important part of its plan to win back the hearts and minds of
Walter Isaacson centres Steve Jobs: The Exclusive Biography on a single idea: that Jobs was an artist working at the intersection of the liberal arts and the technology industry. Jobs emerges from the pages of the enthralling biography as a figure who would be as at
As a result of expanding mobile network coverage, the biggest challenge facing SA as it tries to get more people online is the affordability of connectivity and devices, not network speeds. That’s the view of Independent Communications Authority of SA
There are plenty of reasons why Steve Jobs is one of the most recognised personalities in business. But chief among them is the fact that he’s credited with having saved Apple and then turning it into the most valuable technology company in the
He was once one of Bill Gates’s top lieutenants at Microsoft and was closely involved in the development of the client-server model of computing. Now Zimbabwean-born and SA-educated Paul Maritz, CEO of US cloud computing specialist VMware, says
[Best of the Web — 20 January 2010] Bill Gates joins Twitter: Within hours of joining Twitter, former Microsoft CEO…
The man who founded Microsoft with Bill Gates has cancer. Paul Allen, America’s 17th-richest man according to Forbes magazine, has…
Conspicuous for its consumer ethic, the computer industry has always embraced the belief that “more is best” — more machines,…
