Microsoft has announced its intention to hire more autistic people – not as a charitable enterprise but because, as corporate vice-president Mary Ellen Smith says: “People with autism bring strengths that we need at Microsoft.” Employing autistic people makes good business
As Samsung begins the first weekend of sales in South Africa of its new flagship smartphones, the Galaxy S6 and the curved-screen Galaxy S6 edge, rivals Apple and HTC are upping their game in the
Mozilla is best known for its popular Firefox Web browser. But for the past four years, the company has been working on a smartphone and tablet platform called Firefox OS. The fruits of that labour have now arrived in South Africa, via MTN and phone maker Alcatel
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
