Brainstorm Magazine

1. Making dumb phones smart
(October 2008/In-Depth Analysis)

... Mini and then taken a data bundle is still “very small” says Taylor. Vodacom is busy with development in Opera Mini and its VLive portal, which will ask “customers if they’d like to move to a data bundle”. ...

2. Quality Street Becomes Main Street
(Informatica/Bytesize 2007)

... to the other. Data that is held up in long queues or takes the scenic route around a busy network to avoid congestion is one type; on another level, data that arrives quickly has a low-latency. • Jitter: ...

3. A CONTRADICTION IN TERMS?
(Informatica/Effective e-Government 2007)

... on the Internet offering directions to your offices, but when the person visiting your site is a busy working mother looking to download an application form… A reasonable gap? Observers have pointed ...

4. DEDICATED TO DEVELOPING SOLUTIONS
(Informatica/Converging communications 2007)

... to view capacities within the call centre environment and monitor which agents are busy with calls at any given time. This provides CMS with insights into call centre utilisation and allows for adjustments ...

5. INFRASTRUCTURE UPGRADE SHOWS NANDO’S ARE NOT ‘CHICKEN’
(Informatica/Converging communications 2007)

... the IT staff and interpret these themselves. More productive and effective Lamberti says that the implementation has been so successful that IS is now busy deploying a full enterprise customer relationship ...

6. Microsoft-Google Web Apps Showdown
(Informatica/Bytesize 2008)

... and administer other users’ access to a site themselves, without having to burden their busy IT departments. Of course, not “having to burden IT” may seem like code for avoiding IT and corporate control ...

7. Power over Ethernet
(Informatica/Bytesize 2008)

... Such devices also do not go down while Eskom is busy subsidising solar panels. As your small business grows, you can provision a network without being restricted to where your power outlet is. Installation ...

8. Too Busy To Watch The Front Door?
(Informatica/Bytesize 2008)

SOFTWARE Security ISSUES Information security is a top-of mind fear for small to medium-sized business managers the world over – but they don’t have the time or expertise to give it the attention ...

9. Protect Your Stuff For Free
(Informatica/Bytesize 2008)

... mouse. You can even set it to send an SMS if the alarm goes off while you’re busy somewhere else. LaptopLock, meanwhile, can encrypt files, run apps, reveal the IP address of your already stolen computer ...

10. Good reads reviewed
(Mindshift/Summer 2008)

... and its relationship to the environment, economy and society. Challenging us to question our current idolatry of “busyness”, the authors contend that the achievement of sustainability requires us to ...

11. Extracting entrepreneurship
(Mindshift/Winter 2007)

... remain elusive.     CAPTION 1 Unemployed people don’t get benefits in South Africa. Here an elderly gogo sells cloths she and her church friends have made in busy downtown Pretoria. CAPTION ...

12. Flower spotting
(Mindshift/Winter 2007)

We may be so busy looking for beauty that we don’t see it on our doorstep The verges on the main roads, by-ways and high ways are blooming with spring flowers, but many of us are so busy driving to ...

13. State of emergency - a SWOT Analysis of the World
(Mindshift/Autumn 2008)

... A critical problem emerging out of this realisation is that business is too busy going about the business of business to take sufficient notice, let alone action. This brief overview of the state of ...

14. Cabinet’s climate change plan
(Mindshift/Autumn 2008)

The threat of climate change is growing. But don’t panic yet. Cabinet is busy constructing a plan. Here’s a sneak preview of how they are going about it. Constructing a master plan to deal with a problem ...

15. Stupid is as stupid does
(Mindshift/Winter 2006)

... degree from the University of Cape Town. The UCT Graduate School of Business and I are therefore delighted to have had him on board. Going forward, our think tanks will be busy scanning the horizon for ...

16. Giving the users their fix
(Mindshift/Autumn 2006)

... no, when files “disappear” it always turns out they’ve mysteriously decided to move into a subfolder, uninvited and without due notice. This is known to happen on busy days, not because you are distracted ...

17. Philosophy of mind comes to market
(Mindshift/Autumn 2006)

  The abstract musings of contemporary philosophers are closer to boardroom concerns than most hard-headed, hands-on businessmen imagine. Anthony Holiday   Unheard in the busy hum of commerce, ...

18. STUCK IN SECOND GEAR

... critical service providers per centre. • Northern Cape: Northern Cape’s site is busy, but the news section’s most recent input is from 2004; the annual report on offer is the 2001/02 one. • Free State: ...

19. JOINING THE DOTS

... operation without proper governance is like operating a busy airport without air traffic control. Clearly defining EVERYTHING, from responsibilities to strategies and aims is essential. Strike the balance ...

20. CONVERGENCE – TECHIE NAVEL GAZING OR REALLY SPECIAL ?

... problem all the time. While the consultants pontificated, Every Tom, Dick and Harriett was busy streaming YouTube videos and Webcam chats over the Internet. It’s still small potatoes, tipof- the-iceberg ...