Web browsers Firefox, Opera, Safari and Chrome have all enjoyed a lift after Microsoft agreed to a European Union demand that the company give Windows users a choice of which browser they’d like installed as default. A settlement with the EU
Electronic book readers, such as Amazon.com’s Kindle and Apple’s upcoming iPad, won’t kill physical book stores. But that doesn’t mean book stores don’t have to adapt to technological change.
That’s the view of Avusa Retail MD Fred Withers, who says Exclusive Books, a subsidiary of media group Avusa, will have a catalogue of about 60 [...]
Gartner analyst Will Hahn returns to the show this week, joining Brett Haggard, Duncan McLeod and Simon Dingle for a chat about Telkom’s recent Sat-3 troubles, interconnection, mobile data, Microsoft vs Google vs Apple and much more
The CEO of Kuwait-based pan-African and Middle Eastern mobile group Zain has resigned. “Saad Al Barrak has handed in his resignation to the chairman of the board and the chairman will present the resignation to board members to look into the matter,” Zain, also known as the Mobile Telecommunications Co, said in a statement.
Ahead of last week’s launch of Apple’s iPad tablet computer, some commentators had suggested that the device could save journalism. It won’t do anything of the sort, but the way the event was covered provides insights into the future of journalism.
Last Wednesday evening, a friend and I were glued to a computer screen for two [...]
Steven Ambrose of World Wide Worx Strategy makes his first appearance on the ZA Tech Show this week, joining Brett Haggard, Duncan McLeod and Simon Dingle to discuss the launch of the Apple iPad (and a few other things)
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
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
