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After a 2 week break, we resumed or weekly Radio Islam Digital Lifestyle Show.

With all the recent price hikes around the country, we had some good news with ADSL capped and uncapped prices dropping across the board.

Being an Afrihost customer, I’v had tremendous savings on all our Adsl accounts.
Read more here and here

New Ipad Pricing
The new iPad (aka iPad 3) was released to the South African market on 27th April. Pricing has been quite competitive with the rest of the world and is available at hundreds of locations countrywide.

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Infographics are awesome!  A quick and easy way to digest and make sense of information, facts and figures.

This Spending Spree Infographic by Intuit  was based on USA consumer statistics,  still we can learn tons from it in South Africa.  Ecommerce is still in early stages here with more and more brick ‘n mortar businesses and niche stores popping up all the time.  It may not be easy for someone to compete with the likes of Kalahari.net or Takealot.com, not unless you have very very deep pockets but  there is a HUGE gap for niche stores, more so for small businesses with an established store and product line.     Your customers might order through your website, or just use it as a reference and choose to visit your store.

Check out the infographic below for more:

click to enlarge

Today’s Radio Islam Digital Lifestyle Show was inspiring, heartwarming and full of interesting facts.

We started of with “What happens in one minute on the internet”
Some figures include:

• 3000 photo’s uploaded
• 100 000 twitter tweets
• 6 million Facebook views
• 2 million searches on Google
• 1.3 million views on YouTube and
• 30 hours of YouTube video is uploaded
• 204 million emails sent
• $83 000 worth of sales on amazon.com

For the full article and infographic, visit

http://memeburn.com/2012/03/a-lot-can-happen-in-an-internet-minute-infographic/

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Many listeners ask us about the topics and websites we speak about on our weekly Digital Lifestyle show on Radio Islam.   I’ve decided to post brief summaries of each weeks show.

This week (sunday 15th April) we spoke on a variety of topics.

ML Sajjaad and I continue our Blackberry vs Android differences (me being a ‘droid fan), this time we spoke about RIM’s early beginnings in the mid 1980′s and their recent decision to refocus onto enterprise and corporate services.  Interesting to note was this (enterprise) made RIM and Blackberry very successful, however during their hey days there was no iPhone or Android to compete with.   Time will tell how this plays out.  Having had the misfortune of using a BlackBerry a few weeks ago, I’m amazed at how their cluttered and awkward user interface has become such a hit in South Africa.

Ainonov Android Tablet
Available for a mere R1500 including delivery to any South African address, this 7″ Android powered tablet brings the latest version of Android (version 4 aka Ice Cream Sandwich) and a variety of features.  Myself and Saaleha are contemplating buying this for our 10 year old niece. Well spec’d and very affordable, this is perfect for parents wanting to give their kids a useful and educational gadget.

Visit the Ainovo website for full details, pictures, specifications and ordering info.
http://www.ainovo.co.za/product.html

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In this last part of my little Magento series, I’m going to list extensions that I currently use along with their costs

Minerva Shipping Extension
http://www.magentocommerce.com/magento-connect/pickup-at-event-multiple-flatrates.html
- FREE – This extension offers your customers the option to collect their order at your store (or other collection points)

Web Forms
http://www.magentocommerce.com/magento-connect/webforms-community-edition.html
- FREE – A nifty form creator complete with Captcha allowing you to build your own contact forms and embed it anywhere on your website.
In my case I had a little Product Enquiry form put into all product pages.

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