09 March 2010 00:42
JOHANNESBURG - Vodacom this weekend joined MTN in trumpeting its latest price cuts for consumers. It said that its new prepaid tariffs are the lowest in the country. At 2.8c per second, the all-day call rate equates to R1.70 per minute (It also unhelpfully "neglects" to mention in its release that calls to other networks now cost R1.80 per minute).
This of course follows MTN's announcement just last week that call charges on its One Rate PayAsYouGo would drop to "less than 3c per second". At no point in its announcement did it ever detail what "less than" equated to, but helpfully Read post
02 March 2010 12:18
JOHANNESBURG - Video is becoming increasingly important on the internet. You need only look at the wild popularity of YouTube to see that.
But video is almost completely absent from the mobile web, due to problems with delivering it to hundreds of different types of phones with limited processing power and dozens of different operating systems and browsers. And don't mention that huge bandwidth conundrum. Imagine a few hundred users trying to stream full video in the same area at the same time.
Nearly four years ago, this column suggested that Opera Mini provided the best way to surf the internet on your mobile phone (The real internet on your cellphone ... without 3G!).
But, the world...
24 February 2010 10:19
JOHANNESBURG - Throw away your mobile phone charger. Okay, not just yet. Soon, though.
Wireless charging is the next big thing.
By far the most popular stand at last week's Mobile World Congress 2010 (MWC) in Barcelona, Spain was an Israeli technology startup, Powermat.
The stand became so crowded that it was quickly pretty much "closed" to the 49 000 delegates, and visitors had to wait for a Powermat exhibitor to take them on a tour of the stand.

The premise behind Powermat is simple. It provides real-time, wireless charging to all sorts of devices. The most attractive and most useful is no doubt for mobile phones. T...
19 February 2010 11:03
You might want to wait for the new Windows Phone.
16 February 2010 00:44
Operators are crowing about 14.4 Mbps HSDPA, speeds we won’t realistically see for a while.
09 February 2010 00:05
For fairly heavy users, costs are dropping to as low as R14 per GB…
02 February 2010 09:54
Deal to cut rates from next month no longer a real option.
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