Brainstorm Magazine

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

Online ticketing of air travel will dominate consumer e-commerce for the next five to ten years. Information technology spend in the travel and aviation sector is increasingly focused on delivering ...

2. Too much to do…
(October 2008/UpFront)

... Mullins, a director at Acceleration, his single biggest challenge is a shortage of strategic and technical skills that online marketing companies and their clients who advertise can tap into. In other ...

3. Editor's Note
(October 2008/Editors Note)

... consider the world to be connected, electronic, online, real-time, we are the very privileged few. South Africa has the largest gap between rich and poor in the world, I am told. This does not bode well ...

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

... June, Mark Taylor, managing executive for terminals, online and financial services at Vodacom, asked pointedly: “How do we move the market to the bottom of the pyramid?” It’s a question on the minds ...

5. Silent crimes
(October 2008/In-Depth Analysis)

... on a PC means criminals can record the websites you visit or do business on, the credit card details that you enter, and your online banking information, the ramifications for companies are even more damaging. ...

6. From takeovers to takeout
(October 2008/In-Depth Analysis)

... more freewheeling, IT was less reliable and far less was expected of it. Now people expect the systems to be constantly available so they can bank online at 02h00 in the morning or upload YouTube videos ...

7. CIVETS are the new BRIC
(October 2008/In-Depth Analysis)

... and India, and has been a key driver of another Asian Tiger, South Korea. Naspers, one of South Africa’s top ten companies, according to Forbes, is a major global player in online media. Naspers uses ...

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

... advertisers in the United States have drawn inspiration from one of the fastest-growing online segments: gaming – and South African advertising agencies are following suit.   It’s easy to see ...

9. Shooting the moon
(October 2008/In-Depth Analysis)

... into the desktop environment, a ripping set of online services and a growing userbase on both servers and desktops, Ubuntu Linux has come a long way in six years. Shuttleworth sees it going much further, ...

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

... or Jamaican or Italian, but it’s best they start learning now,” he says. “What we have to realise is that if we are providing online services to clients, we have to educate them,” comments Moodley. “At ...

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

... solution that can be used by anyone from government to listed businesses, right through to online businesses, groups and endusers. Easy to implement through a Web- based system, the technology offers cross-carrier ...

12. Cleaning up the e-waste
(Informatica/Effective e-Government 2009)

... responsible manner. “Customers will submit requests online for the hardware to be picked up. The requests are processed by a contact centre and then sent to an approved logistics service provider. The ...

13. Linking great minds
(Informatica/Effective e-Government 2009)

... provision to Telkom in July 2009. The network will ultimately allow the research community to engage in meaningful online collaboration (networked research) and link them to international bandwidth, explains ...

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

... excluding only Northern Africa. • The first acquisition outside South Africa was Africa Online, an Internet service provider operating in nine African countries: Cote d’Ivoire, Ghana, Kenya, Namibia, ...

15. SITA: A decade of existence
(Informatica/Effective e-Government 2009)

... which provides comprehensive information about government services. Noting that a citizen-centric approach to service delivery is essential, e-government must move beyond online information to fully ...

16. 10 Ways to Keep Your Online Visitors Coming (Back)
(Informatica/Bytesize 2007)

COMMUNICATIONS - WEB SOLUTIONS Words: Carel Alberts COMMON SENSE About Us: Include a brief descriptive blurb on the home page or provide an obvious About Us link and page describing your Web site ...

17. Building your Online Home
(Informatica/Bytesize 2007)

COMMUNICATIONS - WEB SOLUTIONS Words: Carel Alberts INSIGHT Hans Wencke, managing director of specialist Web hosting company Hetzner, offers the following advice: - Plan: You will naturally want ...

18. HSDPA and 3G
(Informatica/Bytesize 2007)

... charges are based on the amount of data you download and move around, as opposed to how long you spend online. Some providers, such as MTN, allow users to avail of prepaid access, which could be very handy ...

19. VOIP for SMEs – Where is the ROI?
(Informatica/Bytesize 2007)

... telephone calls – it can now become one of the most powerful systems in your business. – Ben Maddison, business development: Workonline Communications  ...

20. Look Before You Leap
(Informatica/Bytesize 2007)

... bad move at all, but you need to remember that everything you do online is vulnerable to exploitation, and if you don’t adequately monitor end-user use, you could find that employees are exposing your ...