Smartphones to outsell everything in 2015

A total of 1,4-billion smartphones will be sold in 2015, with sales topping US$ 300-billion. This will outstrip the sale of all PCs, televisions, tablets and game consoles, says Christopher Riley, CEO of The Notebook Company.Riley says his company is “positively...

Crawdaddys offers free WiFi

The Notebook Company has rolled out free WiFi connections at Crawdaddys in Centurion, Menlyn (Pretoria) and Rustenburg. The company will also be installing WiFi at Tzaneen and at Silver Lakes, which will be opening next year. This comes on the back of the initial...

Apple bites at online retailer

A year after being sued by Apple for using its logo on its Web site, Pretoria online retailer The Notebook Company is again in a legal wrangle with the IT giant over the use of various domain names. The company complied with Apple’s logo demand last year and replaced...

CEO puts own blood on the line

The Notebook Company has recently added consumables to its retail offerings – and its CEO has made a rather unusual commitment to low prices: he says he’ll donate a unit of blood for every case where the company doesn’t save customers money.  Christopher Riley, CEO of...