2012 is the year that the electronic communications opt-in vs opt-out debate is going to come to a head, and the fallout is going to have a significant impact on both businesses and consumers. Related telecommunication regulatory decisions are going ...
This was the year of big data. In the last two to three years we have accumulated more data than ever before[1]. This provides both a challenge and an opportunity for companies, and the ones who get it right fastest are going to lead the pack.
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The most significant communication trend to emerge in 2011 was mobility, which is beginning to drive major changes in the way the global economy operates. There are other important developments emerging that demand attention, however my best bet is i...
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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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....
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...
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...
As we've started to see in South Africa and across the rest of the continent, the potential for mobile-enabled healthcare is enormous. Evidence from the GSMA Mobile Health Summit held in Cape Town at the start of June shows that mobile operators are ...
Over the last few years, South African legislation has slowly started catching up with electronic communications, and I had high hopes that the Protection of Personal Information Bill (Popi) would provide the final piece of the puzzle to both protect...
Contemporary wisdom says that the lower the price of a service, the more people will use it. Consumer electronics is a great example of this though the early adopters will pay a premium to be the first to own a new gadget, it is only when the price d...
