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
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Mobile operator MTN has fired a shot at popular chat application WhatsApp. The operator fumed at the popularity of chat over-the-top operators. “You have these players which are getting
Cell C has decided to bring an end to free access to WhatsApp, it said on Thursday. In its place, the mobile operator is adding a R5 WhatsApp bundle to its portfolio of products, providing a month’s access to the
Facebook chose South Africa over Kenya and Nigeria for its first African office because the country has a strong advertising agency ecosystem and the companies it’s worked most closely with to date are
Vodacom raised prices on 1 May in order to be in a position to reduce them in future, its CEO, Shameel Joosub, said on Monday. Speaking to journalists, analysts and investors at the
WhatsApp, the world’s most popular smartphone instant messaging platform, has started rolling out voice dialling in its application (Android users only for now), striking fear into the hearts of mobile
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
Windows, WhatsApp and Netflix top the agenda in this packed episode of TalkCentral. Your hosts Duncan McLeod and Regardt van der Berg unpack the big Microsoft keynote, looking at the Windows 10 announcements and, of course the announcement
A new Sim card for mobile phones is promising its users unlimited access to WhatsApp in 150 countries and across 400 network operators. News of the WhatsApp Sim, called the WhatSim, comes as the instant messaging giant, which is owned
It’s what millions of WhatsApp users have wanted for ages and it’s finally happening. The instant messaging giant, which is owned by Facebook, revealed on Wednesday that it will allow people to send