With its tapered sides, polycarbonate-clad unibody design and 4,3-inch, 1 280×720-pixel display, the HTC 8X certainly looks the part. As HTC’s new flagship Windows Phone device and one of the first handsets powered by Windows Phone 8
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Two of SA’s big banks have committed themselves to developing mobile banking apps for Microsoft’s Windows Phone smartphone platform. It’s important for platform developers to attract local banks to their operating systems given demand from
After a period of “consolidation” at its local office, Taiwanese handset manufacturer HTC is promising a renewed assault on the South African market by increasing its profile in the country and introducing new Windows Phone 8 and Android 4.1 smartphones. “We’ve had a period
Microsoft’s full Xbox Music service will be launched in SA within the next eight weeks, according to the company’s SA MD, Mteto Nyati. The software giant had been expected to launch Xbox Music – which offers consumers both streaming music and music downloads – in SA on Friday to
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has a great deal riding on Windows 8. Since he took the helm 13 years ago from his friend Bill Gates, the company’s share price has gone nowhere. The software giant is far from sinking, but it’s slowly taking on water. Windows 8 will be a key product in plugging the hole. But
Hundreds of millions of people around the world are intimately familiar with it. It’s been a cornerstone of Microsoft’s operating-system software since then-CEO Bill Gates unveiled Windows 95 more than 17 years ago. Yet, this Friday, when the US software giant releases Windows 8 to the general
The fourth-generation long-term evolution (4G/LTE) version of Nokia’s new flagship handset, the Lumia 920, will go on sale in November, the Finnish handset manufacturer said in a statement on Tuesday. The Lumia 920 is Nokia’s new flagship device powered by
The year 1975 was a bumper one for the personal computer. Nearly 50 000 of them were sold, hatching an entirely new market. Just a year or two earlier, only giant corporations could afford computers. Jump forward to 2012: between July and September 87m new PCs were shipped and more than
What the heck is going on? Microsoft, famous for developing products for its platforms only, has suddenly become a leading advocate of openness. Office, its productivity suite, for example, will be available early next year for Apple’s iPad and for devices powered by Google’s Android operating
Microsoft is planning to expand its Zune Pass music offering to more countries ahead of the launch of the company’s upcoming Spotify-like Xbox Music service. Industry sources have told TechCentral that SA is one of the markets in line to get the music subscription service. According to US reports