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South African Internet Service Provider, MWEB, has just announced the launch of Uncapped Hosting at only R19 a month. This market innovation mirrors its uncapped ADSL offering which was launched last year. This is said to be a first for consumers, in what MWEB refers to as its "continuing ...

I love this quote from Debra Ellis of Target Marketing: "Not since the Pony Express have there been so many obstacles to getting mail delivered. Bandits, rugged terrain and wild animals have been replaced with blacklists, spam filters and apathetic recipients."To drive home this fact, a report by ReturnPath ...

Take a look at the amazing chart below. Orange Uganda has seen local traffic jump from 3Mbs to over 30Mbs in just two weeks due to partnering and implementing Google’s Global Cache. One wonders how much business they’re starting to chip away at from their competition.In layman’s terms, it works ...

Web designers have been on the frontlines of the browser-war battlefields for some time now, dodging the shells of legacy browsers exploding all over carefully-crafted pages. Even the design of a simple page would require the designer to have an arsenal of hacks and tricks to ensure cross-browser compatibility.But ...

Recently, I wrote a post about Koos Bekker and MWEB's decisive masterstroke over South African Internet Service Providers (ISPs), and this post is meant as something of a follow up. It's a, "Okay, so you've been played... now what?" piece.When I was growing up, if you wanted supermarket-style shopping, you ...

I had breakfast with internet guru Arthur Goldstuck this morning and, together with Avusa's Colin Daniels, we got into a fascinating debate about the future of the mobile web and internet. Eventually calls will be over the internet as opposed to the traditional cellular networks, and perhaps we may even ...

Arthur Goldstuck's new research at first glance appears to be at odds with the recent statement Nielsen//Netratings issued that internet growth in South Africa is "exploding", based on the local and international growth of the top 30 OPA sites in the country. The Nielsen figures are independent, audited statistics that ...

Online advertising as we know it is crude. But it is entering a new era of sophistication....The internet allows us to target advertising to an unprecedented degree, so why are most banner ads still served on such a hit-and-miss basis?Publishers slap up an insurance ad on a homepage in the ...

Online advertising is not only about clicks, leads and acquisitions… branding is important too....There are a number of competing online advertising models on the net. By far the most dominant one used by online publishers is the Cost-per-Thousand (CPM) model. CPM is the closest online advertising gets to advertising in ...

What is your opinion on the general attitude of the newspaper industry towards the merging of online and print?I think there are sceptics and believers. There will be a measure of merging, but I believe that online and print will also continue to co-exist as distinct products, offering similar or ...