For the second year in a row, the national budget has provided few details on a project to connect municipalities to broadband technology. Finance minister Pravin Gordhan delivered the 2016 national budget speech in parliament
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Global smartphone shipments are losing steam, but lower-priced devices and the African market are likely to be engines of growth, says an international research organisation. International Data Corp last week forecast that global smartphone growth
Information and communications technology spending in South Africa is forecast to grow by 2,6% year-on-year to R26,6bn in 2016. This is according to International Data Corp, which says that mobile devices will largely be responsible for growth in this sector
Korean electronics giant Samsung is leaving its smartphone rivals in South Africa in its dust, according to market research. Samsung grew its local smartphone market share to 56,6%, well ahead of Vodacom’s smartphone brands at 7,6% and Huawei (6,9%), according to
PC sales in Africa and the Middle East fell by a massive 25,6% in the second quarter of 2015, the steepest decline ever recorded in the region for a single quarter, International Data Corp said on Monday. Overall PC shipments for the quarter fell to 3,3m
Smartphone shipments to Africa and the Middle East grew by an “unprecedented” 83% in 2014, according to new research from International Data Corp. The data is included in the IDC’s Q4 2014
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PC sales in Africa and the Middle East will decline by 2% in 2014, with sales remaining flat to slightly negative for the next five years, according to new research by International Data Corp. This is despite a positive third quarter in 2014, when the market expanded by 2,1% in volume terms year on year to
South Africa is falling beyond many other markets in Africa, including Kenya, Rwanda and Nigeria, in information and communications technology, a leading research and consulting firm said on Tuesday. The International Data Corp has warned
Online video-on-demand services in South Africa will remain a relatively niche service until the cost of data connectivity falls to levels that are affordable for the mass market. That’s the view of advisory and services firm International Data Corp, which believes that despite