World leaders take Twitter seriously

More than three-quarters (77,7%) of world leaders have a Twitter account and two-thirds (68%) have made mutual connections with their peers. This is one of the findings from a Burson-Marsteller study “Twiplomacy”, an annual global study of world leaders on Twitter,...

SA boasts 14m Internet users

The total Internet population in South Africa in 2013 is estimated to be almost 14-million users, or 39% of the adult population. This is according to research by the Digital Media and Marketing Association (DMMA) and Echo Consultancy. The figure was derived from the...

Telkom Business takes aim at SMEs

Telkom Business has launched the Convergence SingleRate contract, offering SMEs an out-of-bundle rate of 79c per minute to all networks, all the time. Jan Pieterse, executive at Telkom Business Product House, says the operator offers true convergence through a...

JCSE teaches students entrepreneurship

The Jo’burg Centre of Software Engineering (JCSE) at Wits University has successfully hosted an entrepreneurship training programme presented by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and funded internationally by Google. Known as “Accelerating IT...

SA market ripe for tablet takeover

As demand for communication mobility continues to grow, tablets are stepping up to the plate as one of the devices of choice. In the 12-month period from June 2012 to May 2013, the volume of tablets entering the South African marketplace more than doubled when...