Jan 30, 2013
Research in Motion (RIM) has launched its new BlackBerry 10 smartphone, the long-awaited device that it is hoped will rescue the company from declining global sales. At a simultaneous launch in New York, London, Paris, Dubai, Toronto and Johannesburg, RIM (now...
Jan 30, 2013
Accenture has launched South Africa’s first Innovation Index, to promote business growth and development of new, sustainable enterprises that would in turn spur job creation. The global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company aims to use the...
Jan 29, 2013
More than 30 government agencies from 23 countries requested user information from Twitter during 2012 – and the social media company complied with most of them. During the year, Twitter received 1 858 requests for information, with the bulk of these – 1...
Jan 28, 2013
A group of Internet users has launched a landmark privacy case against Google for undermining the security settings on Apple’s Safari browser, in order to track online usage covertly. In the first case of its kind in the UK, a number of people with concerns...
Jan 25, 2013
A post-festive season sales report by online retailer kalahari.com reveals that tablets were the second most purchased electronic devices on the site. While the e-tailer’s pre-festive season shopping survey predicted the Apple iPad and Samsung Galaxy tablets as the...
Jan 24, 2013
Businesses that capitalise on major changes in consumer behaviour can generate significant growth over the next few years, according to a new report from Accenture. The report, entitled Energising Global Growth: Understanding the Changing Consumer, concludes that...
