Access Bank, Nigeria’s leading commercial bank, has partnered with global technology giant, Microsoft to improve security and banking experience for customers in Nigeria and Africa, as both companies accentuated their commitment to providing custom made products and services that addresses pressing challenges in the banking industry in Africa. This was announced at a meeting between […]
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The African Development Bank and a number of partners on Wednesday launched a programme aimed at preparing nine million Africans, including Nigerians, for high paying employment. A statement made available to correspondent in Abuja on Wednesday said the programme, known as Coding for Employment, was launched at the African Innovation Summit in Kigali, Rwanda. It […]
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Microsoft on Thursday reported that its quarterly earnings was lifted on the back of its shift to focusing on computing services hosted in the internet cloud. The US technology giant said it made a profit of $6.5 billion in the recently ended quarter as revenue rose to $23.3 billion. Microsoft shares — which closed the […]
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The company has officially stopped supporting the decade-old Windows Vista operating system, which never had many fans. Out with the old, in with the new. On Tuesday when Microsoft released its Windows 10 Creators Update, it also said goodbye to Windows Vista. The company has officially ended support for the much-maligned operating system, which was […]
Read More Yes, its true that Microsoft is ending support for Windows Vista in a month’s time, on April 11, so anyone who is actually still using the much-maligned operating system will need to finally make the upgrade and say RIP to Vista. Should you continue to use Windows Vista after April 11, you’ll be much more […]
Read More So.cl, the little-known and probably much-forgotten social network project from Microsoft Research’s FUSE Labs division, is closing down. The service was launched in late 2011 as a social community where the objective was “collaborative consumption, not communication.” Initially for students, So.cl opened up to anyone once it had gotten going and subsequently added support for […]
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While Microsoft’s first HoloLens virtual reality headset has been available to buy since last year — as a model principally aimed at developers — the US tech giant could now be working on a more advanced second-generation version that’s more geared up for the consumer market, and which could land in 2019, according to specialist […]
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At a Windows 10 event in New York today, Microsoft unveiled a new version of its standard-issue Paint app. Not only does it look different, but it enables users to work with 3D content, not just things that are in two dimensions. The app will be part of the Windows 10 Creators Update coming next […]
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Microsoft today announced the acquisition of Genee, an artificial-intelligence-powered scheduling service. The company is planning to integrate the intelligence technology into Office 365 and shut down the Genee service on September 1, 2016. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Genee was founded in 2014 to simplify the scheduling and rescheduling of meetings. Booking a […]
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In an effort to make people switch to Microsoft Edge, the company will now pay you to use the browser, which the company claims can last longer than its Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Opera counterparts. Edge can deliver 36-53% more battery life while doing daily tasks, including watching videos on YouTube, browsing internet or […]
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Technology industry giants Apple, Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Facebook and Netflix have published an open letter opposing the draft bill by US Senators Richard Burr and Dianne Feinstein. The Bill, if passed, will make it possible for courts to order smartphone makers to decrypt data on demand. An official draft of the bill was published last […]
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MICROSOFT has officially revealed that it has acquired the popular third-party app Swiftkey. The amount of the deal is not disclosed, but as per a report by Financial Times it amounts to $250 million. The Swiftkey keyboard app was launched in 2008 and is installed on 300 million mobile devices and has support for 89 […]
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