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Pieter Streicher
The latest South African crime statistics for 2010/2011 could probably best be summarised as “improving, but could do better”. While there have been reductions in the murder and attempted murder rate, assault, robbery and attacks on policemen -- ... |
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Views: 227 | 3 Comments » | posted on Monday, October 31st, 2011 | Tags: BulkSMS.com, Crime, Dr Pieter Streicher, SMS
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Rob Lith
Before Voice over IP (VoIP), life was pretty black and white. You had your office jockeys and your road warriors.
Office jockeys operated PCs, desk phones and faxes. Their jobs started and ended when they entered and left the premises. You could ge... |
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Views: 313 | 9 Comments » | posted on Thursday, October 13th, 2011 | Tags: applications, broadband access, collaboration, converged communications, IP, iPad, iPhone, mobility, smartphone, tablet, telecommunications, UC, unified communications, VoIP
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Wesley Lynch
While mobile payments have met with astounding successes in other parts of Africa, adoption has been far more modest in South Africa.
The main reason for this is our severe banking laws, which further entrench banks in the payments industry while... |
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Views: 240 | 5 Comments » | posted on Tuesday, September 20th, 2011 | Tags: cellphone banking, M Pesa, mobile payments
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Pieter Streicher
SMS has shown its ability to act as a catalyst for social change time and time again. From farming, to healthcare, to education and banking, the ease with which information can be accessed and shared via SMS has levelled the playing fields for margin... |
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Views: 156 | 1 Comment » | posted on Monday, September 19th, 2011 | Tags: BulkSMS.com, Pieter Streicher, recruitment, SMS, text
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Pieter Streicher
While a cat has nine lives, it seems that SMS has an infinite number of lives. So while the rise in mobile instant messaging (MIM) has been heralded as its end, a closer look shows that this rather increases SMS’s value in the corporate space.
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Views: 295 | 2 Comments » | posted on Thursday, September 8th, 2011 | Tags: BulkSMS.com, Dr Pieter Streicher, instant messaging, MIM, mobile, SMS
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Pieter Streicher
The Protection of Personal Information (POPI) Bill is at serious risk of being watered down to such an extent that it is rendered ineffective and meaningless when it comes to preventing consumers from receiving email and SMS spam.
The Bill, which ... |
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Views: 307 | 6 Comments » | posted on Monday, August 29th, 2011 | Tags: CPA, Dr Pieter Streicher, POPI, Protection of Information Bill
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Andy Hadfield
You're going to hear a lot of talk about "ecosystems" as Windows Phone 7 (Microsoft's new SmartPhone Operating System) starts to gain momentum. An ecosystem is a pretty critical element of the modern technology landscape, worth getting to grips with.... |
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Views: 2341 | 6 Comments » | posted on Wednesday, August 24th, 2011 | Tags: gadget review, Microsoft, mobile, Mobile phone, operating system, product review, Samsung, Samsung Omnia, Wndows Phone 7
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Pieter Streicher
It seems a bit crazy to call a technology that is coming up for its twentieth birthday a "veteran". But if you consider the massive explosion of digital communications technology over the past few years, you start to realise just how long SMS has bee... |
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Views: 157 | 1 Comment » | posted on Wednesday, August 3rd, 2011 | Tags: BulkSMS.com, Dr Pieter Streicher, mobile, smartphone, SMS
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Andy Hadfield
Ok, I'll admit it. I'm biased against the current crop of Nokia smartphones. I just think they're crap -- and maybe that's because I'm a "power user" (although sometimes I think my levels of frustration exceed the everyday consumer). Or maybe it's ju... |
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Views: 136 | 10 Comments » | posted on Tuesday, July 26th, 2011 | Tags: App Store, mobile, Mobile phone, Nokia, Nokia E7, review, smartphone, Symbian
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Eugene Chetty
Blackberry, or officially RIM, has been on a rather downward spiral since the rapid growth of Android and the steady market share of iOS. You have to still consider that they are a good manufacturer and in many ways could actually leap back from the ... |
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Views: 65 | 4 Comments » | posted on Wednesday, July 20th, 2011 | Tags: Android, Blackberry, Nokia, smartphone
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