Microsoft has announced a series of brand-new enhancements to its App Hub developer portal as part of the highly anticipated ‘Mango’ release. Windows Phone 7 developers can now publish their apps to consumers in 19 new countries, including South Africa. In addition to the 16 countries where Marketplace is already supported, developers can now broaden [...]

Microsoft yesterday evening previewed the next major release of Windows Phone, code name “Mango,” through a series of media events around the world. “Mango” will deliver more than 500 new features to push the boundaries of the smartphone experience around communications, apps and the Internet.  The Mango release will be available for free to Windows [...]

Nokia (NYSE: NOK) and Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) today announced the signing of a definitive agreement on a partnership that will result in a new global mobile ecosystem, utilizing the very complementary assets of both companies. Completed ahead of schedule, the definitive agreement is consistent with the joint announcement made on February 11. In addition to [...]

In a world-first, a study testing the benefits of integrating interactive hands-free gaming systems into primary school classrooms is being conducted in South Africa. The game-changing study – a brain-child of Microsoft’s – is being run in the remote district of Vryheid in rural KwaZulu-Natal, at a small school that services sub-economic elementary learners. To reach Lakeside Park Primary, [...]

As of 1 December 2010, Nokia has launched MSupport, a customer support service dedicated to operators and corporate customers.  The service will focus on support around Nokia’s full range of Series 60 smartphones and business focused solutions and applications such as Mail for Exchange, Microsoft Lync and IBM Lotus Notes Traveller. “More operators and corporate [...]

Many of the world’s 6 000 languages are absent from the public arena, and 50 percent are in danger of disappearing altogether. As the world observes International Mother Language Day today, we are also celebrating it in our “Rainbow Nation”, where10 million citizens speak isiZulu as their first-language, 8 million isiXhosa, 4 million Sesotho sa Leboa [...]

Valentine’s Day falls on a dreary Monday this year.  But that doesn’t mean that things won’t get steamy, as many amorous South Africans will be spicing up their day at work with saucy emails to their other half, according to a Microsoft Hotmail survey released today. Research polling done on MSN by Microsoft suggests that [...]

Many children between the ages of 14 and 18 are engaging in risky behaviour online – and while parents say they are aware of the dangers, many are doing nothing to protect their children, according to the results of a recent survey. The MSN survey, run by Microsoft as part of Safer Internet Day on [...]

Pirated computer software is currently costing legal resellers and the local computer industry millions of rands a month through lost revenues – and leaving thousands of unsuspecting computer owners up the creek without support. Microsoft South Africa’s Charl Everton says her company alone is currently busy investigating more than 60 computer dealers suspected of selling [...]

Microsoft is muscling into the business communications space with the launch this week of Lync, a new piece of communications software that it says will ultimately replace corporate phone systems. The software combines voice calling, instant messaging, video conferencing and Web conferencing in a single package – and Microsoft founder Bill Gates has hailed it [...]