Up in the Air, the new film from director Jason Reitman, feels at times like an overlong commercial for American Airlines, Hilton Hotels and Hertz Car Rental. Yet it expects to be taken seriously as a study in the loneliness of the long-distance business traveller.
That battle between filthy lucre and artistic pretension is just one [...]
Historically, Taiwan’s HTC has focused its energies on developing Windows Mobile-based smartphones. But in the past year or so, the handset manufacturer has been two-timing Microsoft by making more and more phones that run rival Google’s Android operating system.
The Tattoo, its latest Android offering, is meant as an entry-level touch-screen alternative to more expensive options [...]
Talks aimed at raising an emergency loan to keep JSE-listed Faritec afloat are taking longer than expected, the IT group warned shareholders on Thursday evening.
Faritec is hoping to secure about R60m to implement its “turnaround and growth strategies, normalise trading conditions with trade creditors and ensure adequate working capital to execute its business plan”.
The group [...]
Microsoft’s quarterly net income has jumped 60%, thanks mainly to strong sales of Windows 7, its latest desktop operating system release. Cost cutting also helped boost the profit number after sales rose 14%. The performance narrowly beat analysts expectations of a 59% improvement
The print medium is not going to die and newspapers will continue to be a feature of the media landscape well into the future.
That’s the view of Google executive Santiago de la Mora who believes that just as VHS, and later DVD, didn’t kill cinema, websites and electronic readers won’t stop the printing presses.
However, newspaper [...]
Steve Jobs is known for coming up with revolutionary products that change entire industries. The Apple CEO has at least three such devices under his belt: the original Macintosh, the iPod, and the iPhone. The iPad tablet computer, which he unveiled on Wednesday in San Francisco, is not one of them.
Don’t get me wrong: the [...]
Finally, it’s here. Steve Jobs has showed his hand by introducing the iPad (no, not the iSlate), a tablet computer that the Apple CEO hopes will change the way people read books, play videogames and access the Internet
Microsoft risks ceding the smartphone market. Its apparent decision to delay the release of Windows Mobile 7 could be the final nail in the coffin of its mobile ambitions. Given that computing is going mobile, that’s a big problem for the software maker
Two people were injured in a “massive explosion” in a Yeoville Telkom building on Wednesday morning, according to Johannesburg emergency services.
“It was a massive explosion, within a kilometre radius there are windows that have been blown and vehicles damaged,” said spokesman Percy Morokane. “It shook the whole ground.”
The explosion in the Telkom building happened after [...]
Never in the history of the computer industry has a product launch been this hyped. Not even Apple’s launch of the iPhone in 2007, or Microsoft’s launch of the Windows 95 operating system 15 years ago, garnered as much fevered speculation and anticipation as today’s launch by Apple CEO Steve Jobs of a tablet computer.
For [...]
