Court postpones nuclear case, state to pay costs

Yesterday (13 December 2016), the Western Cape High Court postponed the challenge by Environmental Justice Groups Earthlife Africa Johannesburg (ELA-JHB) and the Southern African Faith Communities Environment Institute (SAFCEI), to the legality of the...

Mobile operators topped €11bn in 2016 IoT revenue

Mobile operator revenues from the Internet of Things reached €11-billion in 2016, according to new research from Berg Insight. During the year, some of the leading global telecom groups have reported IoT revenues on a regular basis. In Q3-2016, Vodafone and Verizon...

How online retailers can avoid the festive slump

Despite several well-documented mishaps and site breakdowns, Black Friday and Cyber Monday evoked the online shopping boon that local e-tailers were hoping for. For online price comparison site PriceCheck, Black Friday and Cyber Monday accounted for 10% of traffic and...

Did the data lobby influence ICT policy paper?

Consumers want faster data at lower prices, yesterday. This is the sentiment behind the #DataMustFall movement, which is agitating for lower mobile and fixed-line data prices. But is this complaint valid and, if it were, would more government regulation be an...

Local IoT innovator expands to the UK

Pretoria-based IoT.nxt, will open an office in London UK early in 2017, the first international office for the company founded just one year ago. “We have experienced strong growth in the local market in the past year and we are ready to use the London office as...

Africa’s child population boom to drive toy demand

The Middle East and Africa has historically been one of the largest and fastest growing regions in the world in terms of child population, with sales of traditional toys and games rising at a compound annual growth rate of 11% between 2010 and 2015 to reach...