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Microsoft has removed the “Start” menu button from its upcoming Windows 8 operating system, according to a consumer preview released earlier this week. The Start button. which made its debut in the Windows 95 version of the operating system, sits on the far left side

Microsoft’s upcoming software for Windows Phone, dubbed “Apollo”, will offer integration with Skype and Windows 8, according to internal video uncovered by Pocketnow. The Windows Phone OS will have a make-or-break year in 2012, and it’s already off to a good start by being featured in Nokia’s anticipated Lumia

Some would look at Google’s recent PR flub over privacy policies and settings as a bit of a fiasco. Microsoft, of course, sees it as an opportunity. This week, the software company is placing a series of advertisements in newspapers across the US to remind consumers that it

The raging controversy around new personal financial management website 22seven and the reaction from local banks form the cornerstone of this week’s episode of the TalkCentral podcast, hosted by TechCentral editor Duncan McLeod and senior journalist Craig Wilson. We ask whether 22seven

Nokia has launched its Lumia range of smartphones, its first phones powered by Microsoft’s Windows Phone platform, in the SA market. The Lumia devices represent Nokia’s concerted effort to claim back lost market share lost to Apple’s iPhone and devices

Your crew this week consists of Andy Hadfield, Brett Haggard and Simon Dingle. They discuss Alan Knott-Craig taking the reins at Cell C, Jeffrey Hedberg leaving Altech, BlackBerry’s CEO shuffle, Microsoft’s renaissance post Gates, CEO Twitter rockstars and social networking in 2012, and much more

Mobile operators need to find ways of boosting revenues and sustaining or growing profits by selling applications or other value-added products and services that can make up for the growing deficit between profit margins on data and those from traditional voice calls. This is the view of Fernando Usera

Local Nokia fans won’t have to wait much longer to get their hands on the Finnish company’s flagship Windows Phone device. The Lumia 800 will go on sale in SA on 7 February, according to a post on Nokia’s Facebook page. Though Nokia is yet to reveal local pricing for the Lumia 800 and on which

TechCentral’s Duncan McLeod and Talk Radio 702’s Aki Anastasiou bring you a special report from the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. We talk about the biggest news coming out of this week’s CES event, including the latest in television

It’s become a rite of passage for the world’s biggest technology companies. As soon as you’ve fought your way to the top and become the darling of both stock markets and customers, regulators begin to cry “monopoly”. It happened to IBM in the 1960s