The battle for the tablet computer market became much more intense on Monday, with Microsoft breaking with its past approaches and announcing it was developing its own line of tablets, to be called Surface. The company offered a preview of a pair of tablets that it intends manufacturing itself
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Having shed its partnership with Ericsson, Japan’s Sony is still trying to find its feet in the Android handset market. Despite marketing capabilities to rival Samsung’s, Sony hasn’t managed to cement itself a place in the smartphone war. The Xperia S looks unlikely to change that. The top-end Xperia is a
Finish mobile device manufacturer Nokia has lost out to Apple in the fight to decide on a new standard for Sim cards. Other competitors included BlackBerry-maker Research in Motion and Google’s recent acquisition, Motorola Mobility. The hope is that smaller Sim cards will allow for better use of
Pitched as an “SA-inspired” tablet, the first generation of Wise Touch Tablets are meant as a budget alternative to high-end tablets. The tablets offer preinstalled localised content and are intended for educational applications. The biggest selling point of the Wise tablet is its price. At R2 100 for the Wi-Fi-only
Internet penetration in SA, the continent’s economic powerhouse, is low compared to other leading economies in Africa due to high broadband cost and a lack of infrastructure, a study said Tuesday. According to the study, commissioned by Google SA, the country had 8,5m Internet users
SA’s Internet economy contributes 2% to SA’s gross domestic product and this figure is rising by about 0,1 percentage points each year, meaning it may reach 2,5% by 2016. The total value of SA’s Internet economy in 2011 was R59bn. This is according to a report titled “Internet Matters
Once a serious rival to search engine Google, Yahoo has slipped in popularity in recent years. Now, it’s launched its own mobile browser, called Axis, in an apparent effort to win back users and remain relevant in the mobile Internet age. Axis is designed for Apple’s iPad and iPhone, with Android and Windows Phone
On Friday, social network Facebook will list on Wall Street in the third largest initial public offering (IPO) in US history and the largest in the technology sector. The initial share price is set at US$38 and, with 421m shares being listed, the move will make
Research in Motion (RIM), maker of BlackBerry smartphones, this week unveiled, at least in early beta, its long anticipated and repeatedly delayed BlackBerry 10 operating system. The Canadian company hopes the redesigned OS will help arrest the decline in BlackBerry’s popularity
Can reality trump art? That was the question hovering over the launch on 24 April, at the Museum of Flight in Seattle, of a plan by a firm called Planetary Resources to mine metals from asteroids and bring them back to Earth. It sounds like the plot of a film by James Cameron — and, appropriately, Cameron is indeed one of the company’s backers. The team