CTI offers free tablets for students

CTI Education Group will become the first higher education institution in South Africa to offer its students tablet computers loaded with prescribed textbooks, at no extra cost. More than 2 000 who will start their degree studies at CTI in January will receive the new...

Record global sales for tablets

Worldwide tablet shipments outpaced predictions, reaching a record total of 52,5-million units worldwide in the fourth quarter of 2012, according to preliminary data from the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Tablet Tracker. The tablet market...

Esquire launches new Geeko tablets

Digital and lifestyle distributor, Esquire Technologies – the 2012 African distributor of the Year – has announced that it is to launch the Geeko Junior and Geeko Premium tablets.  This is according to Asgar Mahomed, MD of Esquire Technologies, who says the...
Festive tablet sales surge

Festive tablet sales surge

A post-festive season sales report by online retailer kalahari.com reveals that tablets were the second most purchased electronic devices on the site. While the e-tailer’s pre-festive season shopping survey predicted the Apple iPad and Samsung Galaxy tablets as the...

Tablet sales pull ahead of notebooks

It is expected that more than 240-million tablet PCs will be shipped during 2013, effortlessly surpassing the 207-million notebook PCs projected to ship during the year. This is according to Christopher Riley, MD of The Notebook Company. “We are also witnessing this...