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Mobile web exploding, but mobile sales lagging… for now

By Rob Dickens
Posted 15 February, 2011
Filed under Ecommerce, Mobile

It's no secret that the world has suddenly woken up to the mobile web explosion. Exponential statistics abound and atmospheric graphs shoot up and away from the X and Y axes as the growth is unprecedented in technological history. The internet will very soon be in the hands of practically ...

Tags: Ecommerce, m-commerce, mobile banking, wantitall.co.za, Windows Phone 7, World Wide Worx
SA study: More people banking with their mobiles than PCs

By Matthew Buckland: Publisher
Posted 3 November, 2009
Filed under Ecommerce, Mobile

According to respected market research organisation World Wide Worx, the number of people banking from their cellphones has exceeded that of people banking from their PCs in South Africa. More than a quarter of bank customers are turning to their cellphones for services ranging from informational transaction types such as ...

Tags: cellphone banking, Ecommerce, m-commerce, mcommerce, Mobile Web