Digital divide, digital dividend, digital yadi-yadah. You would be forgiven if the term “digital dividend” didn’t immediately resonate with you given the proliferation of all things “digital” in recent years. A quick reminder then. The digital dividend refers to the

Retailer Look & Listen has said that from next Tuesday, 12 February, it will no longer offer consumers the option to make purchases of either physical goods or digital downloads from its website, reversing a trend by bricks-and-mortar retailers to online sales. The company

Smartphones offer a potential wealth of data in terms of the location of their users and, given the cost of different devices, their income bracket.
For digital advertisers, this means mobile websites can be monetised more easily by selling highly targeted and hyper-local ads. That’s one

A new Johannesburg-based start-up, MiName, has been established to connect consumers with brands they actually want to hear from, while rewarding them at the same time for accepting to be marketed to. Users decide who can market what to them

Headline earnings per share at technology group Jasco slumped by 26,9% in the six months ended 31 December 2012 due to “adverse market conditions” that “severely impacted” some of its operating businesses. Although group revenue rose

Sidestepping the ZA Tech Show’s service provider’s best efforts to sabotage the new recording time, Brett Haggard and Steven Ambrose get together a day later than planned to discuss 4G/LTE on the iPhone 5, the launch of BlackBerry 10, Microsoft’s 4Afrika campaign

Brett Haggard hosts Ben Kelly and David Greenway in a particularly news analysis-heavy episode of the ZA Tech Show podcast. Among other things, they discuss the most recent earnings announcements, Telkom’s new uncapped broadband prices, Nokia Music+

Vodacom’s revenues in South Africa have come under pressure in the three months ended 31 December 2012, and the operator is blaming increased price competition from rivals, along with other factors, for the muted performance. South Africa is Vodacom’s most

Strong growth in mobile data continues to be the deliverer for Vodacom as the voice revenue shows signs of going into reverse in South Africa’s fast-maturing and increasingly competitive market. For the three months ended 31 December 2012

After significant delays, in part caused by the complexity of managing a project involving three direct competitors, the National Long Distance (NLD) consortium has finally switched on its fibre-optic telecommunications networks between Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal. The