These are dark days for BlackBerry and Research in Motion (RIM). Though the Canadian company’s smartphones continue to sell well in some emerging markets, including SA, consumers at the higher end — they are the more profitable segment for handset
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A David and Goliath-style statistics battle has broken out online, calling into question everything we thought we knew about streaming radio in SA. A technical specialist with a part-time blog has blown the lid off what appears to be the gross inflation of listenership
SA’s Internet economy contributes 2% to SA’s gross domestic product and this figure is rising by about 0,1 percentage points each year, meaning it may reach 2,5% by 2016. The total value of SA’s Internet economy in 2011 was R59bn. This is according to a report titled “Internet Matters
Smartphones and ordinary mobile phones have rapidly swelled the number of Internet users in SA in the past year. Consequently, Internet access is finally reaching the mass market in SA. This is the key finding of the Internet Access in SA 2012 study, conducted by World Wide Worx
South Africans are the most active tweeters on the African continent, producing twice as many tweets as Kenya, the next most active country. According to communications consultancy Portland Communications, more than 5m tweets were sent from SA in the last quarter of 2011. Nigeria, Egypt
The resignations of Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis, co-CEOs of Research in Motion (RIM), are surely intended to restore faith in the BlackBerry brand and to appease shareholders angered by a 75% collapse in the company’s share price in the past year. But analysts doubt whether the resignations are more
President Jacob Zuma’s decision to redeploy communications minister Roy Padayachie and his deputy, Obed Bapela, has drawn mixed reaction from the information and communications technology industry, with one analyst saying he was “stunned” by the move
On Thursday, MultiChoice will launch BoxOffice, a movie rental service on its DStv pay-TV platform. The service takes aim at traditional video stores. It’s the country’s first transactional video-on-demand service — a rival service called VOD:TV
In the early days of mobile technology, the short message service, better known as SMS, became a global phenomenon as consumers, against all predictions, took up the service with vigour. The first SMS
The cellphone habits of South Africans have changed dramatically in the past year on the back of smartphones and mobile Internet’s entry to the mainstream market, World Wide Worx said on Wednesday