It's World Consumer Rights Day on 15 March and South Africa's Internet Service Providers' Association (ISPA) is reminding the country's voice and data users of their new rights under the pro-consumer amendments to the End-User and Subscriber Service Charter (EUSSC)...

After analysing data from more than 10-billion bulk emails from 2020 to 2022, the Everlytic Email Marketing Benchmark Report 2022 has discovered seismic shifts in user behaviour and engagement as the world returned to normal post-Covid. Unpacking insights, trends,...

From 30 August to 8 September 2019 the Fak'ugesi African Digital Innovation Festival will return to Johannesburg to explore and celebrate technology and creativity by Africans for Africa. This year, the 2019 Fak'ugesi Festival has also partnered with the City of...

The annual iWeek Internet industry conference and exhibition kicked off yesterday (26 August) live at Joburg's landmark Indaba Hotel and Conference Centre and via streaming video in Soweto. iWeek represents an opportunity for the Internet Service Providers'...

A new World Economic Forum initiative, the Africa Growth Platform, has been launched with the goal of helping Africa's community of start-up enterprises grow and compete in international markets. The Africa Growth Platform will do this in three ways. First, it will...

Port requests can be rejected, says ICTGlobe.com, while offering consumers advice for ensuring their number porting requests are always actioned by their telecoms providers. The independent telco explains that South Africa launched number portability in 2006 with the...

A new wave of low-code app platforms is leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) to increase efficiency and automate workflow controls, making this form of app development an important component in the application modernisation toolbox. Charlotte Dunlap, application...

Automation may cause job cuts, but it also has the power to level the playing field if women can transition to the new workplace it will bring. Based on a report by the McKinsey Global Institute that looks at workplace transitions in the age of automation, technology...

Wearable technology products will be worth over $50-billion in 2019, according to a new report from IDTechEx. In fact, the total market size has doubled in size since 2014, placing wearables as one of the most consistently successful markets around consumer...

The 5G era is set to drive the next wave of growth in video streaming, with 78% of US consumers indicating they will expand this activity as they adopt the next-generation wireless standard in smartphones and home-networking solutions, according to a survey conducted...