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2001 days ago Ramon Thomas

Mobile porn market set to explode

This is not surprising news for me because my associate, Arthur Goldstuck, has made a similar prediction back in Feb 2005. This website is not about morality but it is about reality. And all you have to do in South Africa is look at the explicit adverts on late night TV, especially eTV and you will know what I'm talking about. Porn on cellphones is available already and as this news report says it is going to explode in the next few years. Well what can we do about this? Do we continue to act like hopeless people while Read More →

Success 8

2001 days ago Ramon Thomas

Toast to Toastmasters

Tonight I won two awards at my local Toastmasters meeting. Toastmasters International is a non-profit organisation that helps individuals improve their public speakings. My club is has meetings twice a month at Old Ed's (next to the Virgin Active) in Houghton, Johannesburg. And tonight I did my 3rd speech. The basic Communications & Leadership program has 10 speeches that teach you the fundamentals of public speaking. I was hoping by now to be on my 5th speech but frequent travels had forced me to postpone some of my speeches. Anyway I'm going to kill those remaining ones as quickly as Read More →

Broadband 13

2002 days ago The Webmaster

Broadband: The premise of a social web

As you may have written down in you diary that a major event to attend in November was the 2006 MyADSL Broadband Conference held at Vodaworld, Midrand, South Africa. That was one of the many ICT related forum focusing directly on widening digital access to communities and the information poor. In this article i am going to explore four major components with regard to broadband. These include a definition and little background on broadband, the meaning of broadband access, broadband access and the idea of the Internet, Policy and Regulations: a regulatory dilemma and Broadband challenges for the information poor. Read More →

Broadband 13

2005 days ago The Webmaster

Yellow Broadband

Do you still remember that MTN was the first in South Africa to bring you EDGE (or Enhanced Data for GSM Evolution), a 3G technology that delivers broadband data speeds to mobile devices. Do you recall that MTN EDGE is five times faster than conventional GPRS. Antone who heard of EDGE technology was very excited by then, but the only thing is that without an EDGE enabled cellphone one need GPRS + (General Packet Radio Services). MTN’s HSDPA offering took third place with 81% and its third generation (3G) service scored 65% , a worry some fact Read More →

Broadband 13

2005 days ago The Webmaster

Neotel's Broadband Future

A lot has been said and debated at different ICT industry forums about Neotel's dream work and missions. But there has'nt been as yet more rigorous and easy to measure development, people begin to question the telecs 's ability to win over Telkom. On paper, Neotel (the word NEO in Pedi means to give (or gift)-can it then mean 'to give telecommunications'- the question is at what cost and how much quality broadband can we expect? On cost, expect very 'affordable', and as for quality time will tell. The problem, it seems, lies on expertise to Read More →

Broadband 13

2005 days ago The Webmaster

Open Access Networks:A success story

The idea behind Broadband is mainly to open doors for inclusive access- where anyone can play on a fair and none discriminatory, while promoting ensure fair trade. Open Access Networks is one of the few community driven success story. An attempt to 'level the playing field' and stimulated competition as a means to promote greater creativity and innovation. Open Access has played a greater role towards participatory democracy or what those Roelf Diedericks Technical Director at Neology called “networking democracy”. Critiques will agree as well that apart from these good philosophies, such plans will promote new entrants of smaller Read More →

Broadband 13

2005 days ago The Webmaster

The future of MyWireless: 'No to one size fits all'

Sentech 's Portfolio Manager for Broadband Products Winston Smith cheered the crowd as usual with his jokes. Sentech's MyWireless portable broadband technology complies with international standards to provide a telecommunications platform for connecting to the Internet and other communications networks securely and at high-speed. Regulated frequencies and a worldwide standard is used. By virtue of Sentech's multimedia licence and initially using a high powered radio based network in the major metropolis of Johannesburg, Midrand, Pretoria, Durban and Cape Town, Sentech now offers Internet-connectivity solutions to suit every pocket - from home users, through SOHO and small-to-medium enterprises . International roaming Read More →

Broadband 13

2005 days ago The Webmaster

Winners: 2006 Broadband

The MyADSL 2006 Awards went to: Journalist of the Year, Overall Winner – Duncan McLeod Journalist of the Year, Newspaper – Lloyd Gedye Journalist of the Year, Online – Dave Glazier ADSL ISP of the Year-Web Africa Broadband Provider of the Year-iBurst 33.6k Modem Award for 2006-Telkom Read More →

Broadband 13

2005 days ago The Webmaster

Yebo Broadband:'great performance and excellent mobility'

Vodacom as a co-sponsor of 2006 MyADSL broadband conference, Vodacome has every reason to celebrate. In 2006 Vodacom continued not only to be 'South Africa's leading cellular network' but also a key advocate of mobile broadband. Chris Ross the Managing Executive of Products and Services at Vodacom strategically analysed Vodacom's broadband technologies such as HSDPA, 3G and others. Speaking in an audience that among them were MTN , Vodacom's competitor, his presentation was far more strategic than anything. Vodacome 's broadband connectivity is rated the best , on average Vodacom has 84 % on HSDPA compared with its rival Read More →

Media 26

2005 days ago Ramon Thomas

Classified Advertising in South Africa

Robert X Cringely is a journalist, author and online industry commentator that I have been reading since I first discovered him in Computing SA back in 1993-1995. Anyway his insights are very accurate and the trends he spots turn out to be important in most cases. This week he wrote in his weekly column on PBS about the impact Craigslist is having on America newspaper business. For those in the newspaper business this is another reason to sit up and pay attention to the online reality. In South Africa simply because we have such a small internet population newspaper's Read More →

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Monthly archive November, 2006

Mobile porn market set to explode

Toast to Toastmasters

Broadband: The premise of a social web

Yellow Broadband

Neotel's Broadband Future

Open Access Networks:A success story

The future of MyWireless: 'No to one size fits all'

Winners: 2006 Broadband

Yebo Broadband:'great performance and excellent mobility'

Classified Advertising in South Africa

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