Brainstorm Magazine

1. SA is falling behind
(October 2008/Columns)

... African company, launched mobile broadcast television, it did not do so in South Africa. It did so in Ghana, Nigeria, Kenya and Namibia. They are the technology leaders in Africa now. The reason is not ...

2. Real-time all the time
(October 2008/UpFront)

... real-time services to travellers. Travel technology group Amadeus has launched a mobile version of its CheckMyTrip platform that enables travellers to check the most up-to-date travel itineraries via ...

3. Wonky Wireless
(October 2008/TimeOut)

... mobile friend. Its biggest problem is a device called the Mi-Fi, a portable, battery-powered wireless access point with full security and a SIM slot, for the built-in 3G modem. Sorry, Sitecom. Verdict The ...

4. High-flying or grounded?
(October 2008/UpFront)

... Fundamo, a mobile payments service that he co-founded in 1999, exploded from a good idea to a global business in just a few months with the backing of some large investors during the dot-com boom. Hinrichsen ...

5. Mining robots of the future
(October 2008/UpFront)

Deon Sabatta is building a mobile ‘pack mule’ robot that will follow a human target and navigate its way ‘home’. For most of us, the closest we’ve ever gotten to controlling robots is playing ...

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

... adoption downwards. It’s about “changing the thinking of the bottom end” of the market. Uys wants consumers who have never used the mobile internet before to “start using the technology” before aspiring ...

7. Time is money
(October 2008/In-Depth Analysis)

... in the telecommunications industry. On the one hand we have the independent communications authority of South Africa (Icasa) aiming to reduce mobile termination rates (MTRs) in the hopes of bringing down ...

8. Serious fun and games
(October 2008/In-Depth Analysis)

... in 2009, and will grow by a third in 2010. In South Africa, the market is smaller, but growing, especially given the uptake of mobile media. According to the South African Advertising Research Foundation, ...

9. Dumb end-users
(October 2008/Features)

... to download information from various sources and install new and trendy applications onto their PCs. “This, coupled with the need to become more and more mobile, means the usage of computing devices ...

10. Didata comes of age
(October 2008/Cover)

... DoCoMo, and NTT Data – provide, respectively, long-distance and international communications services, mobile telecommunications services and global IT services and solutions. Dimension Data is a global ...

11. New generation communication
(Informatica/Effective e-Government 2009)

... the field of mobile solutions, customer relationship management (CRM), call centre solutions and systems web development, Tsoko Information Technology believes they are well positioned to service the trend ...

12. Government on the go
(Informatica/Effective e-Government 2009)

... mobile solutions for government to bear, but also a proven capability in delivering such solutions in the private and public sectors. “As an organization which works closely with a wide range of South ...

13. MTN and government: a partnership
(Informatica/Effective e-Government 2009)

... in the 15 odd years it has been operating, it has had a number of firsts, starting with the first to launch GPRS and Edge technologies as mobile data enablers. MTN Business has also evolved with the ...

14. Telkom enables modernisation of justice
(Informatica/Effective e-Government 2009)

... sites, including rural infrastructures. • A secure infrastructure, including extended VPN and mobile scenarios. • Well-managed, scalable and extensible, always-available infrastructure. • Support ...

15. Doing the country proud
(Informatica/Effective e-Government 2009)

... will provide the communications component. Telkom provided fixed telephony and data infrastructure across the event’s geographical spread and duration, while MTN brought a mobile component to the network, ...

16. Cutting notebook theft
(Informatica/Effective e-Government 2009)

Using anti-theft technology to stymie criminals With the increase in mobile users across all sectors, the need for better security is a critical element. In the past, organisations were restricted to ...

17. Next-generation services
(Informatica/Effective e-Government 2009)

... centre to support this full complement of services. The Access division delivers network access via mobile or fixed means, including fibre, 3G, WiMax, microwave and satellite offerings. Lazarus says ...

18. SITA drives e-Gov think tank
(Informatica/Effective e-Government 2009)

... SITA wants to turn South Africa into a world leader in m-government – using mobile technologies to promote egovernment. It already has projects under way to converge wireless technologies with e-government ...

19. The network of choice for government
(Informatica/Effective e-Government 2009)

... for the information age through the deployment of converged, Internet, mobile and broadband solutions. Because of ongoing regulatory changes, the market is flooded with ...

20. Telkom's defend and grow strategy
(Informatica/Effective e-Government 2009)

In a dynamic new market order, telkom is faced with more competitive demands and opportunities than ever before. it is responding with a tightly defined growth strategy incorporating voice, fixed-mobile ...