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Last week, FNB launched its new banking app for Android, iOS, Windows 8 and BlackBerry tablets. With its tablet and smartphone app, as well as its new dotFNB stores, FNB is now in the enviable position of launching itself as a "lifestyle banking" experience, if it wants to.The app is fairly unique in South Africa (according to FNB anyway), as it lets non-FNB customers create a banking account in “minutes”. FNB stated that it has over 450 000 active ...
The PC market is in dire shape. It's been falling for some time now, we all know that. But the first quarter of 2013 has been particularly bad.According to tech research company IDC, PC sales fell 14% in the first few months of this year. That's almost twice as big a decline as IDC had predicted and marked the worst quarter since IDC began tracking the PC market quarterly in 1994.iChartsIt's also the fourth consecutive quarter that the ...
Look, we all know that the PC market isn't in the healthiest place at the moment. And while tablets and smartphones may never completely kill off the PC, they're not about to let it make a comeback.The latest research from tech research company Gartner suggests that they PC market will decline 7.6% this year. This is not a temporary trend induced by a more austere economic environment, it is a reflection of a long-term change in user behavior. And ...
The question here is not whether owners of tablets are more likely to have a paid for television subscription, but rather how many of those tablet owners are ready and willing to include their tablets to their subscription service? In other words how many tablet owners really want "TV Anywhere"?Across the world there are Pay TV channels who have pushed their development might behind the tablet or smartphone with the opinion that users will want to consume their TV on ...
Tablets use is set to rapidly escalate in emerging markets as their hunger for smart connected devices continues to grow.According to tech research company IDC, the smart connected device volume in emerging markets grew by 41.3% in 2012 with the tablet volume growing by 111.3% and smartphone volume by 69.7% year on year. Desktop and portable PC shipments meanwhile shrank by 3.8% and 0.8% respectively.The upward growth of tablets and smartphones in emerging markets is likely being driven ...
If you're a serious fan of the conventional PC, avert your eyes now because we're about to lay down a harsh truth. The desktop PC is dying.Sure it's a long, slow death and one that's been coming for a while now, but it's definitely happening. Story after story over the past few months has shown a steady decline in PC sales around the globe.The latest research from tech research company Gartner suggests that decline is only speeding up. ...
What you use your tablet may well depend on its size. People are much more likely to share via email on a 10 inch device than a smaller tablet for instance.According to data by tablet publishing and ad provider Onswipe, around 49% of sharing on 10-inch tablets is done via email, compared to 30% on smaller tablets. Social sharing on seven-inch tablets is also much higher on smaller tablets, particularly on Facebook and Twitter.Interestingly email sharing on smaller ...
We seriously love our smartphones and tablets. So much so that we’ll see a larger install base of smartphones and tablets than PCs by around halfway through next year.For now tablets and smartphones aren't likely to replace desktop computers entirely, but the fact that 821-million of them will have been sold by the end of this year is as strong an indication as any that we're moving toward the post PC era. Or at the very least, a ...
When it comes to tablets, the iPad has ruled the roost pretty much from the moment Steve Jobs first unveiled it back in 2010. For a lot of people, iPad equals tablet. For the most part, that's still the case, but its competitors are starting to make inroads.The latest research from tech analysis company IDC suggests that the iPad, in its various incarnations, can now lay claim to 50.4% of the global tablet market, down from 59.7% at the ...
While Apple fans lined up in Asia to get their hands on the iPad mini that went on sale today, the crowds queuing were considerably smaller than for the launch of the iPhone 5 and previous iPads, according to TechRadar. Outside of Apple's premier store in Tokyo only about 300 people turned up, and even in tech mad Singapore only 20 people spent the night, compared to about 1500 when the iPhone 4S was launched.There have been many reasons given ...
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