Social media applications dominate the South African smartphone scene, local research has found. According to data in the new South African Social Media Landscape study by World Wide Worx and Fuseware, chat application WhatsApp is the most dominant application on smartphones
It’s a veritable feast for couch potatoes – or at least those with access to affordable and fast broadband. In the space of just a few months, almost half a dozen new video-on-demand players have been launched in South Africa, promising an alternative to satellite pay
The Altech Node will soon be no more. TechCentral has established that Altron is going to pull the plug on the service after failing to sell the business to a third party. Altron subsidiary Altech launched the Node to great fanfare in 2014
A Standard Bank survey has confirmed what most of us would already have known, or at the very least would have expected — that load shedding is the biggest perceived threat to small and medium enterprises. The SME Survey 2015 has revealed
The February 2013 bail hearing of Paralympian Oscar Pistorius was a defining moment for Twitter in South Africa. The event marked the biggest-ever spike in Twitter traffic in the country as users
Telkom’s plan to cut thousands of jobs could be what the telecommunications company needs to compete more effectively in future, said Arthur Goldstuck, MD of local technology research company
The Democratic Alliance has raised concerns over the lack of transparency over South Africa’s signing of a cybersecurity pact with China. On Monday, telecommunications minister Siyabonga
Falling lower down the World Economic Forum (WEF) global information and communications technology (ICT) rankings is becoming an annual occurrence for South Africa. The WEF this week released
Far from being dead, BlackBerry could be set for something of a resurgence in Africa, with a significant percentage of consumers in five major markets indicating they may favour the brand when it comes time to buy their next phone. Nokia, on the other hand, is
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
