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Microsoft sells 10-million Kinect devices
Microsoft said on Wednesday it has sold more than 10-million Kinect motion-sensing game system units worldwide, breaking records.
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Bringing back the cool
Can Microsoft undergo that dramatic a transformation or are old dogs just incapable of learning new tricks?
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Nokia: Going (micro)soft
It might have seemed like a match made in heaven: the world’s greatest software company teaming up with the world’s leading cellphone manufacturer.
Nokia, Microsoft join forces in smartphone war
Nokia and Microsoft teamed up on Friday to build an iPhone killer in a desperate attempt to take on Google and Apple in the smartphone market.
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Microsoft empowerment deal gets the nod
Microsoft’s R472-million black empowerment deal is due to come to fruition after months of delays and discussions with government.
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Arm deal ‘will end Microsoft and Intel’s dominance’
Microsoft’s decision to make its new operating system run on Arm chips will leave it playing catch-up in the growing tablet computer market.
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Tablets on tap at major gadget fest
Tablet computers will lead a host of "smart" gadgets in the Nevada desert this week at the Consumer Electronics Show.
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Software giant gives a big hand
Microsoft opts for broad-based benefit.
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Take Five: Crocs make a comeback
From Crocs making a comeback to the home entertainment centre of the future, Faranaaz rounds up her weekly five items of quirky news.
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Xbox launches Live, Kinect
Microsoft SA launched Xbox Live and Kinect with lots of promises but there are still a few ghosts in the machine.
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DBE’s ICT plans revealed
The DBE is aiming to utilise technology as a developmental tool for teacher education as well as integrating it into the school curriculum.
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SA schools kick off groundbreaking project
Two Western Cape schools have become the first participants in a global project aimed at addressin g pressing environmental issues using technology.
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Teacher geeks to gather in Cape Town
Hundreds of teachers, education leaders and tech experts will gather in Cape Town next week for the finals of the World Innovative Education Forum.
Microsoft unveils new mobile platform
Microsoft unveiled a new mobile phone operating system on Monday as it seeks to regain ground lost to the iPhone and Blackberry.
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Microsoft: Infected computers should be quarantined
Virus-infected computers should be blocked from the internet and kept in quarantine until they are given a "health certificate".
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SA geeks gear up for gaming expo
It’s been eight years since SA’s biggest gaming expo started and rAge — the Really Awesome Gaming Expo — is going from strength to strength.
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Top teacher geeks
Microsoft South Africa’s 2010 Innovative Teachers’ Awards competition is off to a flying start with the first group of winners announced.
Teaching for the future
To equip children for the workplace in the 21st century, conventional teaching must give way to the use of technology.
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Microsoft launches advertising platform in China
Microsoft has launched an advertising platform in China in an attempt to grab market share from rival Google.
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Leaking Windoze
A decade ago a sneak preview of the next version of Microsoft Windows would have been news for weeks — and not just in the tech press.
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The kindness of strangers
Stop a passerby and ask them "what is the internet?" Their answer is guaranteed to focus on technology.
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Kinect unveiled at Microsoft E3 preview
Microsoft has finally unveiled and revealed the real name of its motion sensing video game device, previously known as Project Natal: Kinect.
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Google ‘getting rid of Windows’
Google is reported to be getting rid of desktop PCs running Microsoft Windows across the corporation to eliminate a security risk.
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Microsoft launches R470m empowerment deal
Microsoft is to invest almost half-a-billion rand over the next seven years into the local software industry, the company said on Friday.
Murdoch to limit Google access to News Corp papers
Rupert Murdoch has warned that Google and Microsoft’s access to his newspapers could be limited once he erects a pay wall around his titles’ websites.
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Microsoft Office 2010 a riposte to the mighty Google
The latest version of Office has lots of new bells and whistles — none of which will make either Adobe or Google happy.
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Mac or PC: Which is safer, or more secure?
I don’t think there’s much doubt about whether you’re safer using Windows or Mac OS X: the answer is Mac OS X.
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Web censorship in China? Not a problem, says Gates
Microsoft founder Bill Gates plays down Beijing’s attempts to stifle dissent on the internet as "very limited".
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Microsoft’s Natal game system in stores this year
Microsoft plans to get its Natal body-gesturing gaming system into stores in time for this year’s holiday shopping season.
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Curtain falling on ‘digital decade’
While it got off to a rocky start with the Y2K bug and dotcom bubble, the era dubbed the "Digital Decade" has turned out to be a dizzying period of in
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Chrome OS rival to Microsoft could become our Big Brother
Google has launched its Chrome OS operating system — but it may mean Google controls your netbook as Apple controls your iPhone.
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Will Murdoch’s Bing gamble pay off?
In cosying up to Google’s main competitor, Bing, Rupert Murdoch proves once again that he can’t be dismissed so easily.
