Don’t look now, but Microsoft has started doing some pretty nifty stuff. It kicked off its 2014 Build Developer Conference in San Francisco this week with a bang, with newly appointed CEO Satya Nadella taking the wraps off a range of new products and services that look … cool. There were a slew of announcements
Have you ever thought about what it would be like to speak to your car, to ask it to navigate you to a point of interest without knowing the address, or asking for restaurants by cuisine type that are closest to your current location? How about just telling your vehicle “I’m hungry”, and it bringing up a list of restaurants
The personal computer business is in a poor state worldwide, and the Africa and Middle East region has not been shielded from the slump. The latest data from research firm International Data Corp (IDC) shows the PC shipments in the Middle East, Africa and Turkey declined by 14,3% year on year during the fourth quarter of 2014, to 4,5m
The mobile operators are fighting the wrong war, and they’re squaring up to the wrong enemy. They should be fundamentally revising their business models to prepare for Google, Facebook and Microsoft, which are taking aim directly at their voice business. Let us take a step back. For well over a decade, South
Microsoft will launch its much anticipated next-generation videogame and entertainment console, the Xbox One, in South Africa in September, distributor Westcon-Comztek has announced. The launch comes almost a year after Sony introduced its next-generation
Microsoft has stepped up its fight against software piracy in South Africa, working with the Hawks to execute raids in recent weeks on the premises of various resellers suspected of selling counterfeit and unlicensed products. In the most recent enforcement actions, about 100 counterfeit disks containing Microsoft
Microsoft’s board of directors has named Satya Nadella, an internal candidate as its third CEO, replacing Steve Ballmer, who has been in the job since January 2000. The announcement follows an extensive search, both within and outside Microsoft, for a suitable replacement for Ballmer, who announced his
Today is a very humbling day for me. It reminds me of my very first day at Microsoft, 22 years ago. Like you, I had a choice about where to come to work. I came here because I believed Microsoft was the best company in the world. I saw then how clearly we empower people to do magical things
Microsoft South Africa MD Mteto Nyati and former Google sub-Saharan Africa boss Stafford Masie have been appointed to the board of JSE-listed education and recruitment company AdvTech. Nyati, who previously worked at IBM South Africa, and Masie, who is spearheading
Another year is behind us, and 2013 was another important one in South Africa’s technology industry. We know what our favourite stories were in 2013, but which articles did you, TechCentral’s readers, click on the most. These are the pieces, in ascending order from 10 to one, that generated the most
