Browsing: George Ferreira

For the first time, more smartphones are being sold in South Africa than feature phones, new research shows. Samsung Africa vice-president and chief operating officer George Ferreira, quoting GfK market research, says 51% of mobile phones sold in South Africa in March 2014 were smartphones, with the rest made up of feature

MultiChoice and Samsung Electronics intend launching the pay-television operator’s DStv BoxOffice movie rental service on Samsung Smart TVs in about a month from now, TechCentral can reveal. “We have Smart Hub already on our TVs, but it’s limited,” says Samsung Africa vice-president and chief operating officer George Ferreira

Is Samsung Electronics planning to pour billions of rand into a new manufacturing facility north of Durban? The company’s Africa vice-president and chief operating officer, George Ferreira, let slip at Sentech’s Connected TV Summit in Sandton last week that the company intends opening a television

BlackBerry maker Research in Motion (RIM) is losing its second regional director in four months to rival Samsung Electronics. Craige Fleisher, RIM’s regional director for Southern Africa, will be joining Samsung Electronics Africa on 1 October, TechCentral has