by George Serradinho on August 12, 2008
Digital TV switch-on in sight – but service is not yet ready
THE department of communications has set the date for the digital switch-on of public broadcast television for November 1 this year.
This does not mean, however, that ordinary people, especially the poor, will be able to watch their free-to-air television programmes on a digital signal.
Communications minister Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri said: It’s a major shift, equivalent to the shift from black-and-white to colour tTV.
“It’s been a long .....
by George Serradinho on June 30, 2008
I just got access to a new beta site that is attempting to do for mobile sites for what Feedburner did for RSS feeds. The site is called Mobile Fusion, or MoFuse for short. It only takes a few minutes to setup. Once you login, you create a mobile site, which is done by pointing MoFuse to your site’s RSS feed. I run my RSS feed through FeedBurner, and it had no problem at all .....
by George Serradinho on May 20, 2008
By Sandra Vogel
Design
Despite its ’semi-ruggedised’ classification, the Toughbook CF-52 is a seriously solid-looking notebook. When closed it looks more like a slim briefcase than a portable computer, thanks to its hard outer shell and built-in carrying handle.
The shell comprises a lid section made mostly of magnesium alloy with a black plastic section towards the top that adds visual interest and provides space for the Panasonic branding; the rest of the system is encased in hard .....
by George Serradinho on May 20, 2008
By David Meyer, ZDNet UK
SAP and RIM have announced a “co-innovation” partnership which will see all the enterprise-software company’s applications made natively available on the BlackBerry smartphone.
The companies announced on Friday that the first of SAP’s software to make it onto the BlackBerry will be its customer relationship management (CRM) application, which will be generally available for mobile use within a couple of months.
Salespeople who already employ SAP’s CRM application will then be able to .....
by George Serradinho on May 20, 2008
Dell and Ericsson have teamed up to bring users a new way to stay connected during travel and while away from the office. By utilizing mobile broadband networks, Dell and Ericsson are offering users connection options for their laptop computers. Dell’s next generation laptops will be able to access seamless roaming on tri-band HSPA mobile broadband via Ericsson. All this will start very in the second quarter of this year.
Since HSPA is the most widely .....
by George Serradinho on May 14, 2008
Picture the domestic worker who catches a taxi from her township to the nearest bank or from a rural settlement to the nearest town to check whether her social grant or salary has been paid.
It is a busy Saturday morning, so she queues first for a taxi then again at the bank. Her indirect bank charges are high: she has to pay a fare just to get to the bank.
On the way home in the .....
by George Serradinho on May 13, 2008
The role of an enterprise architect spans both Information Technology (IT) and business. It becomes part of how an organisation makes decisions and investments so that business strategy can be realised.
What is an enterprise architect?
As an enterprise architect, you are able to plug into an organisation at the most strategic level, influence the overall direction of an organisation, and bridge the gap between business and IT.
Enterprise architects provide organisations with competitive advantage; they help slash .....
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