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Few people remember third place. Whether in sport, science or business, there's little glory attached to the bronze medal. But two multinational giants, BlackBerry and Microsoft, are straining to be the third player in the burgeoning smart phone market.The latest figures from IDC, an industry analyst, show a rapidly expanding global market for this new generation of mobile phones. Over 216-million handsets were shipped during the first three months of 2013, an increase of over 40% compared with the same ...
Microsoft has responded to a cease and desist letter from Google asking it to remove its recently released YouTube app from its app store.In the letter, Google claims that the app allows people to download videos and strips out all the advertising. While that might sound like some people's ideal version of the video-sharing service, it does mean that Google is losing out on revenue that is rightly its.In its response, Microsoft says that it will gladly show ...
Most would think that Bill Gates and Steve Jobs had a bitter relationship until the end. But that just isn't true, as the Microsoft founder tells 60 minutes, during an interview in which he describes his last visit to the late Apple co-founder.Gates grew emotional talking about his last visit with Jobs before his death. According to the personal computing billionaire, the visit ended on a "forward-looking" note."He showed me the boat he was working on, and talked about ...
TV whitespaces are playing an increasingly important role when it comes to providing broadband to emerging market countries. The latest project to use the technology sees Microsoft partner up with the Tanzania Commission for Science and Technology (COSTECH) and UhuruOne to provide wireless broadband access to university students and faculty in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.TV white spaces technology provides wireless broadband by tapping into unused portions of wireless spectrum in the frequency bands generally used for television. Although Africa ...
Microsoft has sold more than 100-million installs for Windows 8 since it became generally available and claims to have over 250-million users on its cloud-based storage service SkyDrive.In an official blog post, the Redmond-based giant's chief marketing officer and chief financial officer Tami Reller confirmed that the OS had reached the 100-million mark, up from 60-million licenses sold by January.Those 40-million extra licenses, she explains, come largely from the PC market, with the "vast majority" shipping on new ...
Four hundred million. Four. Hundred. Million. That's how many active email accounts Microsoft has amassed over on Outlook.com. Really.According to Outlook.com's group program manager Dick Craddock, the company hit the milestone yesterday after it finished moving over all existing Hotmail accounts to its brand new web-based email service. Before you start wondering how on earth Microsoft managed to get all those millions to sign up less than four months after the launch, consider the fact that there were already around ...
Microsoft today announced the preview release of Skype video messaging for Windows 8, which means that anyone using the Metro side of the OS can grab it in the Windows 8 store.Skype Video Messaging lets you record and send a video message to friends and family on Skype anytime, even when they’re unavailable; they can watch your Video Message next time they’re on Skype. Here's an idea of what they'll see if you send them a video message:The ...Look out Gmail, Outlook.com just got a little more interesting. Microsoft has announced that it's baking Skype into the email service.The service is rolling out to UK users first, with the US and Germany set to follow in the coming weeks. The rest of the globe meanwhile will get the roll out "in the coming months".Once you've linked your Outlook.com account with Skype, you'll be prompted to install a plugin on Firefox, Chrome or Internet Explorer to enable ...
A hedge fund executive has revealed that his company owns a US$2-billion stake in Microsoft and that he reckons other investors don't appreciate the value of the tech giant's businesses.Speaking at an investor conference, ValueAct Capital Management LP founder Jeffrey W Ubben disclosed the stake and how much it was worth. While he did not reveal exactly how many shares his company has in Microsoft, their value suggests that it amounts to less than one percent of Microsoft's total ...
In a bid to make Windows 8 more attractive Microsoft is pushing the consumerisation of tech. The company has identified that it needs to widen the ecosystem of computers where any type of product and device can be connected to the internet.At TechEd, the company's Africa leg of its annual developer conference, head of Windows business group Colin Erasmus and Bruce Murphy, product marketing manager for Windows commercial, outlined some of the key trends that are driving tech consumerisation. ...
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