Brainstorm Magazine

1. Wireless warrior

Henk Kleynhans` dream is to blanket Africa with the cheapest, fastest and most stable internet access possible.

2. Getting a grip

Managing thousands of PCs spread over hundreds of kilometres isn`t easy, so Cape Town City Council brings in the big guns.

3. Finding value under every leaf

Autumn Leaf has joined an exclusive club, but this is secondary to its record as a community business.

4. Everything as a service

Fujitsu Siemens Computers has a new "Dynamic Infrastructures" offering that comprises new products, services and solutions. But why is this important?

5. East versus West

The world`s eyes have turned to developing economies in the face of saturated developed markets.

6. BreakinG THE speed barrier

Luzuko Maduna lives, works and talks at breakneck speed, and was quick to realise his dream of working for himself.

7. The Italian job

 The over-riding challenge for motor manufacturers today is to improve their speed and flexibility worldwide. And this doesn`t refer to the vehicles they produce, but rather to the overall manufacturing ...

8. Cyber crime dons suit and tie

Cyber crime is a business - and a profitable one too. Like any legitimate business, it prospers when it`s organised, has a pool of expertise it can draw from and forms successful partnerships from anywhere ...

9. Information as a weapon

What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas, goes the saying. IBM will hope that`s not true for the more than 7 000 customers and partners it invited to the Strip to hear the latest on the company`s information ...

10. From soft touch to touchstone.

The Shuttleworth Foundation has realised that throwing money at a problem doesn`t make it go away The material comfort that comes with accumulating wealth makes it easy to set up some kind of philanthropic ...

11. Taking over the world

A local remote mail archiving and backup solution goes global, in a really big way.

12. Hear them roar

The Lions Rugby website has become a popular interactive community of online fans.

13. Googleocracy

Google harvests information and tracks human behaviour at a ferocious pace. But growth may become its Achilles heel.

14. Making banking sexy (again)

Remember when banking was cool? It`s time to spice things up again.

15. Under attack - and no one to tell

A recent study has found South African companies to be disillusioned when it comes to tackling computer crime.

16. Skills gap wider than we thought?

It`s generally believed that South African businesses need more ICT skills than are currently available. The blame is placed at the global skills shortage and brain drain, affirmative action that has excluded ...

17. Phoenix rising

When traditional telco giants ruled the contact centre world, not many companies would run a software-based open-standard communications system on a Windows platform. The next thing we heard, the traditional ...

18. Gated communities on fibre diet

Broadband-wired gated communities in affluent urban areas will spend R1.3 billion by 2012. The industry is banking on the Joneses to shame the Smiths into making it happen.

19. Develop skills, create opportunities

Cisco South Africa has met its local investment obligations and is aiming to stimulate economic growth in the country.

20. Cometh the revolution

Building on last year`s `The Consumerisation of IT` theme, Gartner this year selected the `Transformation of Technology` for the Gartner Symposium, held in Cape Town recently. Gartner says technologies ...