With the market changing so fast, what smartphone should you get next? It’s an increasingly complex question, writes ARTHUR GOLDSTUCK as he lays out the landscape for your future options.
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HP surrenders in PC, phone, tablet war
A series of recent announcements from HP represented the company’s surrender in the war for the most hotly contested segments of the market, writes ARTHUR GOLDSTUCK.
Social media use in journalism still evolving, as new award shows
The Vodacom Journalist of the Year Awards is among the most prestigious and richest in the country. The awards, now celebrating its 10th year, rewards outstanding reporting and excellence in journalism, with the overall winner walking away with R125 000 in prize money.
The Vodacom awards have various categories by media such as print, radio, television and by niches such as sport, financial/economic reporting, consumer journalism etc.
Data dreams come true
The last two weeks saw massive price cuts in mobile broadband data charges – but a few nightmares still lurk in our broadband bills, writes ARTHUR GOLDSTUCK .
Why RICA can’t work
Tens of millions of South Africans registered their SIM cards before the RICA deadline to help fight crime. But the system is fatally flawed, writes ARTHUR GOLDSTUCK.
New gadgets don’t kill old media
South Africa cleaned up the awards at the Cannes advertising festival last month, but it failed miserably in the digital category. There are lessons to be learned, writes Arthur Goldstuck.
SA races for RICA deadline; 3.6m still outside net
Around 3.6-million South African mobile accounts have not yet been registered as the RICA deadline arrives. ARTHUR GOLDSTUCK sums up the state of play.
App where we belong
With 500 000 apps in the Apple App Store, 250 000 in the Android Market, and the rest in the tens of thousands, how do you choose from among so many apps? Does size count? Does popularity count? ARTHUR GOLDSTUCK sums up the state of play, and a few of his favourite apps.
[Netprophet 2011] African ecommerce market has a long way to go
A billion Africans and 50 million bank accounts. In South Africa, credit cards are used by only 16.5% of the population (2008). No African country comes close to 1% of total retail spend spent online – the magic figure which constitutes the tipping point for digital retail growth (in SA, ecommerce has a 0.4% share of the retail market, while in countries such as Egypt and Nigeria, the figure stands at 0.01%). No wonder, then, that the ecommerce market in Africa hasn’t bloomed.
Looking at these numbers, many international ecommerce plays have shifted investment in the African market 5-10 years down the line. But where others fear to tread Oliver Rippel, CEO ecommerce Africa & Middle East at MIH, sees opportunity and first-mover advantage.
For youth market mobile access to information and communication is the answer
Mobility no longer simply refers to motion, it has also come to describe the untethered use of technology on devices like smart phones, both of which seems to have come together in a perfect storm to enable the revolutions currently sweeping the Middle East and North Africa. Setting these revolutions in motion, is the youth, who organise and spread their message using social networks primarily accessed through mobile devices. These platforms are not only changing how young consumers engage with politics but also with commerce and one another.