More than four years after the first mobile-TV service was introduced, only 3,2m users worldwide are paying to receive broadcasts to their handsets, according to research by international analyst firm Juniper Research. This is probably bad news for pay-TV incumbent MultiChoice and cellphone operator Vodacom, both of which have recently introduced mobile-TV products.
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The use of mobile Internet services in SA has “exploded”, though less than half of urban cellphone users who have…
“Bill shock” is a growing problem for SA travellers. They go overseas, and, before they know it, they’ve run up a bill of thousands of rand without even making a phone call. The problem is, as with roaming voice charges, the mobile operators impose exorbitant fees for roaming data – in some cases, more than R100 000/GB. And with smartphones, which are constantly polling the network looking for updates to e-mail and other services, consumers can quickly run up monster-sized
New research suggests the number of South Africans using the Internet via broadband connections has leapt 50% in the past…
Smartphones, cellphones with large screens and the ability to browse the Web and access e-mail and other online services, have…
Electronic book readers, such as Amazon.com’s Kindle and Apple’s upcoming iPad, won’t kill physical book stores. But that doesn’t mean…
The number of Internet users in SA is growing strongly for the first time in years, new research from World…
Internet retailers appear to be weathering the recession better than their bricks-and-mortar counterparts, with those polled by TechCentral reporting strong…
Newspaper publishers have “completely misunderstood the nature of the crisis facing them”. That’s the view of technology researcher and author…
The number of people banking from their cellphones has exceeded the number banking from their PCs in SA, with more…