New music streaming service Mziiki, which is focused on providing access to African artists, is set to launch in South Africa early next year after already having debuted in 12 other markets on the continent. Focused on providing music fans with access to both independent musicians and those
Author: Regardt van der Berg
Affordable smartphones are starting to transform the landscape in Africa, getting millions of people across the continent online for the first time, but prices need to fall further and content and applications need to be tailored for local communities and languages, experts said this week
Kenya has become the third African country after Zambia and Tanzania to get the Facebook-led Internet.org application, giving Airtel customers in that country zero-rated access to a range of services, including Facebook, Wikipedia, Daily Nation, SuperSport and BBC News. Speaking at the opening keynote
Facebook and other so-called over-the-top service providers cannot put propositions on the table that are not profitable for mobile operators and doing so would be “contrary to our goal”. That’s the view of Chris Daniels, who heads Internet.org, the Facebook-led initiative to bring affordable Internet
If your business does not have a solid online presence, you will lose out to your competitors when potential customers cannot find your services online. Fortunately, building a simple website to give your business a voice is not
Johannesburg has placed 29th out of 40 cities in a new ranking on ICT maturity. The report, by Ericsson, has placed Cairo, Egypt in 35th place, while Lagos, Nigeria is in 38th position. Ericsson’s latest Networked Society City Index ranks the 40 cities’ ICT maturity in terms of the leverage they get from technology
Sony certainly churns out its smartphones at a rate of knots. It feels like just the other day that it released the Xperia Z2, and now the new Z3 and Z3 Compact are already on sale. The Compact is a smaller, 4,6-inch version of the flagship
The content that will fill the airwaves after the digital terrestrial television (DTT) switch-on next year will be critical to the success of South Africa’s digital migration project and there are valuable lessons the country can learn from other
South Africa’s digital terrestrial television migration project is in a dire state and if the country fails to switch off its analogue signals after the mid-June 2015 cut-off date, it may be obliged to do so if analogue signals interfere with
MTN announced a new low-cost tablet and an update to its Steppa smartphone on Wednesday morning. It hopes the new offerings will entice first time smartphone and tablet users, and those on a shoestring budget. “Access to