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Ease of Use, Quality, key to mobile business

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Cellphones and other mobile devices don’t have to be cheap, as long as they are easy to use, high-quality and dependable, according to a survey of one thousand small business owners in South Africa.
This is a key finding from the Mobility 2009 research project being conducted by World Wide Worx and backed by First National [...]

Mobility 2009 reveals SA’s cellular gap

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The South African cellular market reached a milestone of 50-milion connections at the end of 2008 – but only 68% of these represented individual users. This is the first key finding from preliminary research conducted by World Wide Worx for its 2009 annual Mobility study, backed by First National Bank (FNB), leaders in cellphone banking [...]

DreamFields, World Wide Worx, e.tv score in Orange Farm

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JOHANNESBURG:- The Dreamfields Project, which has provided more than 650 soccer teams from disadvantaged communities with complete soccer kits, returns to its roots on Wednesday, 27 May.
In partnership with World Wide Worx and e.tv, the Dreamfields Project will host a schools soccer tournament, or DreamEvent, at Orange Farm, where the project first began in 2007. [...]

New cable: 100-fold bandwidth increase

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JOHANNESBURG:- The announcement today of a formal agreement for the construction of the West Africa Cable System (WACS) by all South Africa’s major telecommunications operators sets the scene for total international bandwidth capacity coming into Africa growing more than a hundredfold by the end of 2011.
The Internet Access in South Africa 2008 study, conducted by [...]

DA leads elections race on Internet

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JOHANNESBURG:- An in-depth analysis of the Internet strategy of the main political parties in South Afrca’s 2009 general elections reveals that the Democratic Alliance has a substantial lead in online performance over its rivals. The African National Congress comes in a distant second, narrowly ahead of the Congress of the People. The United Democratic Movement [...]

April Fool hoaxes up by 372.5% on Internet

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A new study reveals that, between 12.01am and 11.59am on April 1 2009, the number of April Fool’s Day hoaxes created by media organisations increased by approximately 372.5% over the same period in 2008. It is expected that the impact on business productivity of these hoaxes will amount to approximately 0.00567% of gross annual turnover. [...]

Internet access to double in next five years

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JOHANNESBURG:- South Africa’s Internet population is expected to grow as much in the next five years as it has in the 15 years since the Internet became commercially available in South Africa.
This is among the startling conclusions contained in the Internet Access in South Africa 2008 report, released today by World Wide Worx. The report [...]

Robust growth for online media

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JOHANNESBURG:- Online advertising in South Africa grew at the fastest rate of all countries in the English-language world in 2008, and is likely to repeat this performance in 2009, according to the Online Media in South Africa 2009 study, conducted by World Wide Worx in collaboration with the Online Publishers Association (OPA).
The findings indicate an [...]

New research releases coming

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World Wide Worx will release a series of new studies in the next few weeks. Please advise us if you want to be kept informed, by e-mailing Arthur Goldstuck.

Internet turnaround has begun in SA

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n the past year, the Internet user base in South Africa has seen its highest rate of growth since 2001, increasing by 12.5% to 4,5-million.
This is the key finding of the Internet Access in South Africa 2008 study, released today by World Wide Worx. The study was backed by Cisco Systems, and the findings released [...]

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