The world’s biggest technology company, Apple, has quietly established a South African office and now appears set to grow its presence in the local market. It’s the first time the company has had
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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
Nokia, Motorola, Sony Ericsson and BlackBerry were all victims of disruption. During the 1990s and 2000s, they shepherded the cellphone during its period of take-off into ubiquity. Then in the last five years, they all lost their leadership positions and are now on the
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
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
BlackBerry, once the must-have device for the sweaty palms of executives and wannabe executives everywhere, has seen its global share of the smartphone market fall to below 1%. So would you still buy this unpopular phone? If you live in parts of Africa, India or Indonesia
Former Samsung South Africa mobile communications head Craige Fleischer has been named as chief sales and marketing officer at Neotel. He joined the telecommunications operator last week. Fleischer, who took
Korea’s Samsung Electronics is not buying Canada’s BlackBerry, the two companies said overnight, denying a Reuters report that an acquisition was on the cards. The newswire quoted an unnamed source as saying that Samsung had recently offered
Who would have thought that one of the most interesting smartphones to be launched in 2014 would come from BlackBerry, Canadian smartphone manufacturer that many people had until recently written off as dead? The BlackBerry Passport is the
Samsung warned this week that its earnings in its most recent financial quarter were likely to have tumbled by as much as 26,5% – the third straight quarter of decline – in part because of a glut of unsold smartphones and growing competition from Chinese manufacturers. These must be troubling times for the