by Arthur Goldstuck | Nov 15, 2011 | Internet Research, News, Strategy research
Large organisations in South Africa are increasingly adopting cloud computing as they realise it doesn’t always pay to own their own information technology systems. The concept of accessing processing power, data storage facilities or software on tap has been around...
by Arthur Goldstuck | Oct 26, 2011 | Internet Research, News, Strategy research
South Africans have embraced social media as a core pillar of Internet activity in this country, along with e-mail, news and banking. MXit and Facebook lead the way in user numbers, while Twitter has seen the most dramatic growth in social networking in the past year,...
by Arthur Goldstuck | Mar 17, 2009 | Internet Research, News
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...
by Arthur Goldstuck | May 14, 2008 | Internet Research
Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), which allows Internet users to make phone calls to each other at no cost, is finally taking off among South African businesses, four years after it became legal to use it outside company networks. This is the key finding of the...
by Arthur Goldstuck | Mar 4, 2008 | Internet Research, Mobile telecommunications research
Delays in the award of licenses for providing the new WiMAX high-speed wireless broadband service to businesses and consumers and the limited roll-out of services that have been licensed has resulted in dampening of its potential impact. This is the core conclusion of...
by Arthur Goldstuck | Dec 8, 2007 | Internet Research
8 December 2007:- Online retailers will have generated around R200-million by the time stores close for Christmas this year. And the most popular item on sale on the Internet? Satellite navigation systems for cars. Research conducted separately by leading independent...