IoE will define industry winners and losers

The Internet of Everything (IoE) has fast become a reality in today’s world and those companies that are slow in realising this and embracing it are destined for failure. Mark Davison reports from Cisco Connect 2014, Sun City.

Facebook bridges the gender divide

Facebook is the first platform in South Africa that has seen exactly equal uptake by males and females. This is one of the findings in the SA Social Media Landscape 2015 report by World Wide Worx and Fuseware. The headline findings, announced in September, had shown...

Wireless in demand, despite fibre rollout

The demand for wireless in high-density fibre areas of South Africa continues unabated. This is according to Brenden Pronk, chief commercial officer of Comsol, who says that, even in the most dense fibre areas, Comsol and its biggest ISP client continue to deploy a...
SA tops in mobile search

SA tops in mobile search

According to new research by private healthcare search engine WhatClinic.com, South Africa leads the way in using mobile devices to search the site.In the past five years, mobile and tablet traffic to the site – which has over 1-million unique visitors every...

Neotel cuts the cost of tech-agnostic broadband

Internet provider Neotel has launched affordable, enhanced high-speed broadband services. They will be available from 10 November 2014 and will offer a consistent user experience and features across a future-proof, technology-agnostic and fixed wireless access network.

Virgin offers free on-net calls

Virgin Mobile South Africa’s (VMSA’s) new product proposition offers free on-net calls to all its contract and prepaid customers. CEO Anton Landman yesterday revealed a new tiered offering, which went live from 1 November 2014. The proposition covers prepaid,...