Regional tablet sales take a knock

Sluggish demand from consumers across much of the Middle East and Africa (MEA) saw the region’s tablet market shrink 13,3% year on year in Q2 2016, according to the latest Middle East and Africa Quarterly Tablet Tracker from International Data Corporation (IDC)....

UCT still ranked first in Africa

The University of Cape Town (UCT) continues to rank first in South Africa and on the continent, although this is the second year of a drop in places in the overall Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) Rankings. This downward movement does not, however, mean that the quality of...

ZACR says org.za suspensions can be fixed

South Africa’s ZA Central Registry (ZACR) is tasked with administering second-level domains within the greater .ZA namespace, which includes .org.za. ZACR regularly undertakes technical streamlining as part of its continued and transparent efforts to maintain...

Auto industry looks to customer service

The old adage which says that the “customer is king” is taking on new significance in the 21st century as product-based marketing is being replaced by an information-led market where savvy consumers demand flexible, personalised, customer-centric service....
LTE set to dominate M2M

LTE set to dominate M2M

Forecasts show that cellular machine-to-machine (M2M) connections (not including NB-IoT) will reach 733-million globally by 2021. Ovum’s latest report, “Cellular Machine-to-Machine (M2M) Forecasts: 2016-21” predicts that total cellular M2M service...

SA avoids technical recession

Statistics South Africa (StatsSA) reported yesterday that the South African economy expanded by 3.3% q-o-q and 0.6% y-o-y during the second quarter of 2016. This was slightly better than economists had expected and warded off the fear of a technical recession –...