Smartphones, cellphones with large screens and the ability to browse the Web and access e-mail and other online services, have made a “dramatic entry” into corporate SA, far surpassing general consumer use or small business use.
That’s a key finding in a new research study released on Thursday by World Wide Worx. Its “Mobile Corporation in [...]
Electronic book readers, such as Amazon.com’s Kindle and Apple’s upcoming iPad, won’t kill physical book stores. But that doesn’t mean book stores don’t have to adapt to technological change.
That’s the view of Avusa Retail MD Fred Withers, who says Exclusive Books, a subsidiary of media group Avusa, will have a catalogue of about 60 [...]
The number of Internet users in SA is growing strongly for the first time in years, new research from World Wide Worx has shown, as a result of a more liberalised and competitive market.
SA now has more than 5m Internet users, finally breaking through the 10% mark in Internet penetration for the country, says World [...]
Internet retailers appear to be weathering the recession better than their bricks-and-mortar counterparts, with those polled by TechCentral reporting strong growth over last year’s festive season.
Arthur Goldstuck, MD of research firm World Wide Worx, says he expects local e-retailers to benefit from a 20% to 25% increase in online retail sales in SA in 2009 [...]
Newspaper publishers have “completely misunderstood the nature of the crisis facing them”.
That’s the view of technology researcher and author Arthur Goldstuck, MD of World Wide Worx, who says newspapers face the same bleak future as the music industry — many publishers and editors just haven’t figured it out yet.
And News Corp chief Rupert Murdoch’s recent [...]
The number of people banking from their cellphones has exceeded the number banking from their PCs in SA, with more than a quarter of bank customers turning to their cellphones for services ranging from informational transaction types such as balance enquiries to financial transaction types which include account payments.
This is a key finding of the [...]
SA’s cellular market continues to enjoy robust growth, even with market penetration at around 100%, a new survey has found. The preliminary findings of the 2009 annual Mobility study were released on Tuesday.
The study, which was carried out by World Wide Worx, showed it was not only the number of cellular connections that was growing, [...]
