Samsung lost the number one spot in the global smartphone market in the fourth quarter of 2014, displaced at the top of the pile by Apple, according to new data from Gartner. It’s the first time Samsung has dropped out of the top spot in smartphone sales volumes
The constitutional court on Tuesday reserved judgment in the South African Reserve Bank’s application for leave to appeal a supreme court of appeal judgment in favour of billionaire technology entrepreneur Mark Shuttleworth
A new survey of the technology habits of South Africa’s student community shows that Facebook has become the default social network among students, with 97% of students in tertiary education using the platform. Twitter is second at 67%, followed by
The constitutional court will on Tuesday hear the South African Reserve Bank’s application for leave to appeal a supreme court of appeal judgment in favour of entrepreneur Mark Shuttleworth. Last year, the supreme court ordered that the Reserve Bank repay Shuttleworth
There will be a billion new mobile subscribers by 2020, according to a new research report published on Monday. The GSMA, an industry body representing the world’s mobile operators, said on Monday at the Mobile World Congress in Spain that the number
The power grid will be severely constrained for the rest of the week, parastatal Eskom said on Tuesday. “It is possible that we may go through today [Tuesday] without implementing any load shedding,” spokesman Khulu Phasiwe said. “If any of our
On this week’s ZA Tech Show, the game boys (Deon Du Plessis and Shaun Behnken) join Brett Haggard for a chat about mobile phones, search engines, jetpacks, drones and games (of course). The topics (in order of appearance) on the podcast are the upcoming Samsung Galaxy S6
The market has failed to deliver broadband to all South Africans, hence government’s decision to intervene, naming Telkom as the…
Consumers stand to be the biggest losers during South Africa’s migration to digital terrestrial television (DTT). As the country races to meet an international deadline to switch off analogue TV by 2015, major decisions are being made that will raise costs for consumers and
Vodacom CEO Shameel Joosub has called on telecommunications operators to work more closely together to reduce costs in an environment where input costs continue to rise but where prices for telecoms services continue to decline. Joosub says one
