IoE will define industry winners and losers

Mark Davison reports from Cisco Connect 2014, Sun City – 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. This was the stark message from...

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

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. Sunil Joshi, MD and CEO of Neotel, comments: “Customers in South Africa want a service and generally do not care about the underlying technology. In response to that feedback,...