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Tag Archives: microsoft
Microsoft Partners with Nokia to Put Office on Mobiles
Microsoft and Nokia announced an alliance yesterday to bring Microsoft’s Office Mobile to Nokia’s Symbian devices. The Microsoft website states that the following features will ...
Big Bing Theory
“But It’s Not Google” is the cheeky acronym some in the tech community have given to Microsoft’s new search engine, Bing. Microsoft has spent $80 ...
Microsoft Validates Ushahidi, Invalidates Vine
A million monkeys banging on a typewriter will inevitably string a few phrases together, two of those monkeys will likely type the same phrase as ...
Where are the African Designers? [Part 2]
A few months a go I wrote a post that questioned where the art movement of Africa existed and who was leading it. I ...
Microsoft Fights Dirty to Win African Contracts
Hiring the relatives of government officials, offering kickbacks of up to $400,000, locking small nations into multi-year contracts. No this isn't a tale of the Mafia, it's the story of Microsoft's sales team in Africa...
‘Global’ Web Services Failing the World Market
This list rounds-up several web applications that claim to serve a ‘world-wide’ audience but who’ve fallen short on delivering to people outside of the U.S. ...
This Week in Appfrica [Sept 20 - 27 2008]
“This Week in Appfrica” is a weekly digest highlighting articles and stories from the previous week.
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Microsoft Targets South African Piracy
When it comes to piracy, Africa is an especially tricky market. Most companies will state that markets in Africa are simply ‘too small’ to worry ...
Bill Gates’ Tech Support Request
This email from Bill Gates, circa 2003, raises some real questions. 1) If Gates is this much of a hard ass on usability, why does ...
Unicorns Happen: Apple Tablet, Zune Phone