E-commerce lags in SA, says ISP

All indicators reflect that e-commerce in SA is still in its infancy compared to the rest of the world. This is according to Dieter Febel, MD of the ISP SA Gateway, who adds: “Frankly, compared to the rest of the world, we are not even close. Research shows that there...
Dino sheds light on Gondwana

Dino sheds light on Gondwana

South African and Argentinian palaeontologists have discovered a new early dinosaur from South Africa. The specimen was found in the late 1930s in the Zastron area of South Africa, about 30km from the Lesotho border. For a long time the remains of the dinosaur just languished on the shelves in the collections at the Evolutionary Science Institute (ESI) (then the Bernard Price Institute) in Johannesburg. A few years ago it was studied and considered to represent the remains of another South Africa dinosaur, Aardonyx.

SA set for massive IP growth rates

South Africa will have about 27-million Internet users by 2019, up from 15-million in 2014. At the same time, South African IP traffic will grow six-fold by 2019, a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 44%, according to the 10th annual Cisco Visual Networking Index...

Lifestyle leads interest in connected homes

Most people have a strong interest in the idea of a truly connected home, with health and wellness being among the areas of greatest interest. This is one of the findings from an Ericsson ConsumerLab study, Connected Homes, which examined attitudes to connected homes,...

C-suite must lead customer engagement

C-suite-led customer experience (CX) initiatives can increase revenues and customer satisfaction while reducing costs. Genesys has released a global study conducted by the Economist Intelligence Unit with 516 senior level executives in 21 countries to explore the...

Telkom debuts flexible Voice bundles

Telkom has introduced a range of mobile voice bundles aimed at offering customers greater flexibility in managing their fluctuating business and personal voice usage demands without incurring the higher cost of out-of-bundle voice minute usage. Now, once customers have depleted their available voice allocation, they can purchase voice bundles at an in-bundle rate instead of having to go out-of-bundle at a higher rate. This flexibility allows customers to better manage their spending and offers more value for voice calling.