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Love it or hate it, Internet Explorer (IE) has been Microsoft’s window on the Web for almost 20 years. In the rapidly evolving online world, this is a ripe old age – and now Microsoft has decided it is time for IE to hand over the baton. Starting with Windows 10, due for release

You can’t have missed our article on Wednesday morning on government abandoning South Africa’s digital migration project. There’s no way it could have been true – there’s too much riding on a successful migration – but quite a few people were suckered by it

WhatsApp, the world’s most popular smartphone instant messaging platform, has started rolling out voice dialling in its application (Android users only for now), striking fear into the hearts of mobile

Passwords are a pain. I seem to have 100 or more different identities on different websites to manage. Whenever I book a flight or buy a concert ticket, it often means setting up yet another persona and coming up with a password to authenticate it. It’s got so bad I’ve

There are claims that Microsoft is to retire its Internet Explorer (IE) Web browser and replace it with an all-new browser called Spartan with the upcoming release of Windows 10. As of February 2015, IE’s market share slipped to second place with around 17%, while

Billed as the cheapest Windows Phone Lumia device to hit the South African market, Microsoft on Thursday announced it would sell its entry-level Lumia 435 smartphone starting at R1 149. The 435 is the first 400-series Lumia. Low-cost Lumia devices have proved

What’s going on at Microsoft? The company is producing great software – and now hardware – that supports a range of platforms, not just Windows. The latest example of this is the new Office for Mac, which was released in preview form last week. It’s

Mustek has turned in a 26,3% improvement in headline earnings in the six months ended December 2014 on the back of a 24,6% increase in revenue to R2,5bn, from R2bn previously. Basic headline earnings climbed by 28,5%. Growth came

The Hypertext Transfer Protocol, or HTTP, is a key component of the World Wide Web. It is the communications layer through which Web browsers request Web pages from Web servers and with which Web servers respond with the contents of the page. Like much of

Just US$100 buys you a ticket to the virtual reality game. Launched at International CES in Las Vegas, the Zeiss VR One lets you drop any 5-inch smartphone into a tray, slip it into a VR headset, and you’re off into