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New releases in film, books and music
Unify your home entertainment system
A LT E C H A U T O PA G E C E L L U L A R
N E W S F R O M S O U T H A F R I C A’ S L E A D I N G I N D E P E N D E N T S E R V I C E P R O V I D E R
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BUSINESS ENTERTAINMENT SERVICES GADGETS
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CONNECTEDISSUE
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HOW TECHNOLOGY WILL
INTEGRATE OUR LIVES
IN OUR FUTURE HOMES
BRINGINGTECH HOME
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INTERNET
2.0The future of
the wired world
P L U S | S O U T H A F R I C A N H O M E A U T O M AT I O N / F O O D A N D W I N E I N T H E W E S T E R N C A P E / T H E F U T U R E O F A F R I C A N I N T E R N E T
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MARKETING MANAGER ALTECH AUTOPAGE CELLULAR
WELCOME LETTER
Here at Altech Autopage Cellular, we believe in bringing people closer together.
You can use mobile technology to keep you in touch with your loved ones, but not
only that, to streamline your life into as seamless a process as possible.
It’s incredible what can be done in this modern age to connect all our various
devices. Your phone, your car, your tablet, your laptop, your house: these things
can all already be integrated into a single home. That’s why we thought we’d
take a look at the fully automated home this issue, a home from the future that’s
already here.
We believe in the connected life – come explore how we can help bring you and
your family together with Altech Autopage Cellular.
Zaza
EDITORIAL TEAM
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EDITORJESSICA [email protected]
DESIGN DIRECTORANDREW [email protected]
PRODUCTION DIRECTORMARIANNE [email protected]
SENIOR DESIGNERDAVE [email protected]
JUNIOR DESIGNERTESSA [email protected]
MARKETING MANAGERZANELE [email protected]
WELCOME TO OUR CONNECTED ISSUE!
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contents
The Good Food & Wine
Show in Johannesburg
Integrating your
business technology
WHAT’S ON
BUSINESS
How we will connect in
the near future
TECHNOLOGY
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ISSUE #22 THE CONNECTED ISSUE
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SERVICES
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New releases of the latest
in film, music and books
ENTERTAINMENT
Future houses keep
you connected
COVER STORY
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10PRODUCTS Your phone and your TV team
up for maximum entertainment
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HOME TEC
FROM BIOMETRIC SCANNERS TO HOUSEHOLD ROBOTS, THE FUTURE HOUSE IS COMPLETELY DEPENDENT ON TECHNOLOGY. AS OUR WORLD CONTINUES TO TURN INTO ONE GIANT COMPUTER, YOU CAN BE SURE YOUR HOME WON’T BE AN EXCEPTION. THE JETSONS IS NOW
Microsoft has had a Home of the Future on
its Redmond, Washington campus for a few
years now. There’s a counter that gives recipe
instructions, an LCD in the kitchen that keeps
track of your to-do list and the bedroom walls
are entirely made of screens. In the living room,
you can virtually visit art galleries or stores, using
surface technology on your coffee table. Almost
every surface is a potential touch screen.
House automation isn’t as futuristic as you’d
think. Microsoft’s home-installed screens are
already available to consumers through Microsoft
Surface, a multi-function touchscreen for any
household surface. We already have wireless
appliances. Samsung has a Wi-Fi enabled LCD on
its new refrigerators. You can make grocery lists,
research recipes, maybe even do a bit of online
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grocery shopping. Whirlpool’s Vantage washer
and dryer has an LCD screen and USB port so
you can programme your washer, making it
more energy efficient and convenient. Even
the designer of the iPod has gone into home
innovation: Tony Fadell has made a digital
thermostat, the Nest, with a spinning ring that
changes colour according to temperature.
Homes have already been built that aren’t far
off Microsoft’s abode. Austrian design firm
Najjar & Najjar’s Villa F Vienna incorporates
computer screens into the furniture and
walls. UK company Ideal Standard has built a
prototype digital bathroom, featuring mirrors
that change into screens, digital sensory taps
and smart TVs viewable from the bath.
Biometric security systems can be installed that
scan your fingerprint before they let you in the
house. Robots that clean your carpet or mow
your lawn automatically already exist. Despite
their widespread availability, it will be awhile
before they are cheap enough to be common.
A fully automated house can actually help save
the environment. No one will be leaving the
lights or the heating on, with the house itself
regulating your climate controls. You don’t even
have to have a speciality house built: products
like the GE Nucleus connect your home
electronics wirelessly, controlling the climate
while monitoring your energy consumption.
When Disneyland built the House of the
Future in 1957, it was made of plastic, had
automatically adjusting chairs and featured
unheard of appliances like microwaves. But the
future isn’t about futuristic materials, but about
connections. They never could have predicted
just how connected we’d all become.
IN SOUTH AFRICA, FULLY AUTOMATED HOUSES ARE ALREADY HERE>
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Civic Automation: Civic Automation can turn
your home into an almost
self-sufficient entity. Lights
turn on when it gets dark, the
heating adjusts to changes
in temperature, and you can
control everything with the
touch of a button.
civicgroup.co.za
Previous spread left to right: Digital surfaces in Villa F Vienna by Najjar & Najjar; the Esquire Ultimate Bachelor Pad, which is so high tech it has its own virtual reality room; a hi-tech bathroom from UK company Ideal Standard.
This spread, clockwise from left: An advanced eco-house from Australian lighting company Xenian; the Nest thermostat by iPod designer Tony Faddell; Ideal Standard’s high-tech concept home; the GE Nucleus interface.
Nuru Intelligent Homes: Nuru offers full home
automation options
including security that
lets you view surveillance,
turn on lights, adjust
temperature and even
irrigation through remote
control on your phone.
www.nuru.co.za
Smart Home Solutions: This company automates
both homes and hotels,
focusing on lighting.
www.smarthomes.co.za>
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ALTECH TECHNOLOGY CONCEPTS’ INCORPORATION INTO ALTECH AUTOPAGE CELLULAR MEANS EVERYTHING YOUR COMPANY NEEDS IS UNDER ONE ROOF
UNIFIED SOLUTIONS
Your business needs to be connected
in more ways than you might realise.
Besides the obvious internet and
telephony connections, there are many
layers to the way that you communicate
and interact with your customers and
other clients.
That’s why we’re always looking at more
ways to keep you connected. Recently,
Altech Autopage Cellular has merged
with it sister company, Altech Technology
Concepts. Altech Technology Concepts is
a specialised provider of communications
services and solutions, providing you with
the services you need whether you are a
small business or corporate enterprise.
The merger will combine the strengths
of both companies, creating an exciting
new portfolio of projects and allowing
our operations to be as streamlined as
possible. The combined company will
be headed by Boyd Chislett, the current
Managing Director at Altech Autopage
Cellular, assisted by Wayne de Nobrega,
the current Chief Executive Officer of
Altech Technology Concepts, as Chief
Innovation and Strategy Officer.
“No longer will customers have to put up with diff erent service providers when they require voice, internet and data solutions,” explains de Nobrega. “And when something goes wrong, they won’t be pushed from pillar to post as one service provider blames the other for a lack of services. Our new company will be their single point of contact for all their services.”
These combined companies can now
offer multiple ways to create the most
connected environment possible for your
business. The GSM solutions provided by
Altech Autopage Cellular will be combined
with the unique bouquet of Internet
access solutions from Altech Technology
Concepts. Their services include: physical
connections, involving creating linked or
wireless infrastructure; internet access,
offering options adapted to physical link
technology; managed network solutions,
where physical links are replaced with
virtual private networks; managed
services, involving cloud application
services; voice solutions, involving
routing calls along a high speed
backbone; and search engine marketing,
provided by Google certified in-house
search engine experts.
The integration of Altech Autopage
Cellular and Altech Technology Concepts
means we can now offer business
customers the most comprehensive
list of services possible, bringing a
full portfolio of modern connectivity
technologies to use at your business’
disposal. Customers no longer have to
look to different service providers for
their voice, data and internet solutions,
but can instead have a single point of
contact. It’s part of our commitment to
keep you connected.
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LG 47LW6510 SMART TV
+ LG OPTIMUS
LG is really pushing their 3D technology, claiming
to offer the most cinematic 3D TV experience out
there. The TV uses a Magic Motion remote, which
lets you control it with gestures. There’s a home
dashboard where you can navigate through apps
and controls. You can also wirelessly stream
content between your TV and phone using the
Smart Share function.
PRODUCTS
THE DAYS OF HAVING A STEREO SYSTEM, DVD PLAYER, CD PLAYER AND CABLE BOX ARE GONE. YOUR REALLY ONLY NEED TWO DEVICES THESE DAYS: A SMART ENTERTAINMENT SYSTEM AND YOUR PHONE. IT’S THE ULTIMATE IN STREAMLINING
SCREEN / 55” DISPLAY / HD 3D LED MOTION RATE / 960HZ
SAMSUNG D8000
RT TV SAMSUNG D8000 SMART TV
+ SAMSUNG GALAXY SII
Samsung’s SmartTV recommends movies, does
web sharing, allows you to upload pictures straight
to your TV and even syncs with your Samsung
Galaxy so you can watch streamed TV. The two
are connected using an app called Smartview.
Everything can be accessed through the TV’s
central Smart Hub, and the interface is controllable
using gesture, your voice, or even face recognition.
CONNECTION ADDICTION
SCREEN / 47” DISPLAY / HD 3D LED MOTION RATE / 200HZ
LG 47LW6510
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SONY BRAVIA HX929
SMART TV + SONY XPERIASony has a whole host of boggling
innovations they are using to offer
superior picture quality, from super-
fast processors to high refresh
rates to keep your whole experience
high definition. It also provides the
usual internet streaming video
and widgets functionality. Sync
everything across all your devices
in your home, including your phone.
You can use it as a remote with the
Media Remote app, which turns it
into a second screen.
PRODUCTS
LED
IA
SCREEN / 65” DISPLAY / HD 3D LED MOTION RATE / 100HZ
SONY BRAVIA
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APPLE TV + IPHONE
Apple TV is not an actual TV, but rather a
multimedia receiver: basically a little box that
serves as a TV connection. Connect using Airplay,
which allows you to wirelessly stream anything
from your phone or tablet straight through your
TV. With the usual Apple ease of use, everything
is accessible through iTunes or iCloud with the
simple click of a sleek remote. However, you
can’t directly browse the web or read email, and
you can’t watch free-to-air TV, meaning you’re
basically stuck in Apple entertainment land,
though there’s always streaming.
ay
is accessible through iTunes or iCloud with the
simple click of a sleek remote. However, you
can’t directly browse the web or read email and
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PROCESSOR / APPLE SINGLE CORE A5 CHIPTV COMPATIBILITY / 1080P OR 720PVIDEO FORMATS / HD, MPEG-4, M-JPEG
APPLE TV
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XBOX (BY MICROSOFT) + NOKIA LUMIA MICROSOFT WINDOWS PHONEIt may not be a TV, but the Xbox has a lot of the
same functions. The Microsoft Windows Nokia
Lumia offers a companion app that lets you
control Xbox; whichever TV you attach to it is up
to you. It functions much like a SmartTV: first,
there’s the Xbox Live service, which has over 35
million subscribers, and the streaming services
available on it. Then there’s Kinect, which
integrates with Microsoft’s Bing search engine,
letting you give voice commands to your Xbox.
You can simply say the name of a movie, and it
will play. Even better, your Nokia Lumia phone
can become a remote control.
PROCESSOR / INTEL PENTIUM III 733MHZMEMORY / 8GBRAM / 64 MB
XBOX
ven betteer, your Nokia Lumia phone
e a remoote control.
NTEL PENTIUMM III 733MHZB
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HTML 5 IS LOOMING, ALMOST ALL THE INTERNET ADDRESSES IN THE WORLD HAVE BEEN USED UP, LTE WILL SOON BE THE NEW BROADBAND AND NEW WAYS OF APPROACHING COMPUTER LANGUAGE ARE HERE. WELCOME TO THE NEW WORLD OF THE FUTURE INTERNET
The internet is quite possibly the most
influential technology to have been
invented in the 20th Century. Our world has
fundamentally changed because of it: we
function in a way today that our grandparents
couldn’t have even comprehended. But as
technology zooms ahead, when it comes to
hardware, the intangible world of the net is
also heading into a brave new world.
First, there’s HTML 5. For the not particularly
tech-minded, a new version of HTML
basically means that the scattered world
of web viewing technologies will become a
bit more streamlined, reducing crashes and
dependency on technologies like Flash.
3G will not be around forever either – LTE is
its successor, which is capable of download
speeds of around 100Mbps. 4G will happen
eventually too, which will offer download
speeds of up to 5Gbps.
Then, there’s the actual second Internet. It’s
quite a sci-fi problem: the internet is actually
running out of room. It is governed by Internet
Protocol version 4, which uses 32-bit numbers
THE
MATRIX IS HERE
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to identify computers – an
IP address. The thing is,
there are only so many
numbers available, and
they’ve almost all been
used. A newer version,
IPv6, has already been
available for some time,
but the problem is that
not all network devices
can use IPv6. So a major
overhaul is due.
Voice recognition will
continue to become
more important for
internet use. Eventually
all internet commands
might be run this way.
And, as the world
becomes increasingly
connected, the ultimate
goal will be to make
everything recognisable
through a common data
language. That means
even your things, from
your washing machine to
your car, will be connected
with a common language,
making your world
completely seamless.
The future of SA Internet
South Africa is different from much of the
rest of the world in that it has a very low
household internet penetration rate. This
creates an interesting opportunity for
mobile internet, however. South Africa is
also drastically behind when it comes to
bandwidth – most South Africans don’t
have connections that allow them to use
the internet to its full potential. At the
end of the day, we need more bandwidth:
hopefully cable development can catch up.
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The child of a Zambian father and a Scottish mother, Sandé is a talented vocalist with a silky, soulful voice and a mixed pop aesthetic reminiscent of Adele or Lana Del Ray. She rose to fame by singing with rapper Chipmunk, and now her music has already won at the Brits Critic’s Choice awards. She has also opened for both Coldplay and Alicia Keys. Our Version of Events is an engaging, beautiful, debut. It won’t be long before she’s a household name.
Eminent Conservationist Lawrence Anthony recently passed away, leaving behind an incredible legacy. He founded The Earth Organisation, famously saved Baghdad’s zoo animals and wrote several books, including The Elephant Whisperer. The Last Rhinos is the incredible story of his personal mission to save the Congo’s northern white rhinos, which he embarks on after an orphaned rhino at the Thula Thula game reserve is murdered.
LISTEN UP
EMELI SANDEREADABLE
THE LAST RHINOS
All the latest in the cinema, in your earphones or on your bookshelf
ENTERTAINMENT
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CINEMATIC
CORIOLANUSTV LAND
ROBOGEDDON
It seems we never get bored of Roman historic epics or redoing Shakespearian dramas, and this slightly less famous of the bard’s plays gets a colourful relook in a contemporary setting. Ralph Fiennes is the title character, a fearsome and greedy general whose lust for power sees him sacrifice the interests of his people, and subsequently, his leadership is questioned. He is taken on by his sworn enemy, Tullus Aufidius, played by Gerard Butler, in this nail-biting epic.
James Cameron, the famed director of Titanic and Avatar, is set to direct a new TV show in partnership with Reality TV show creator Mark Burnett for The Discovery Channel called Robogeddon. The basic premise is robot fights – contestants will build robots meant to fight to the death. It’s a slightly unsophisticated choice for the famous director, but should be interesting nonetheless.
ENTERTAINMENT
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DISCOVERING SAVINGS
Altech Autopage Cellular wants to ensure that
you stay at the top of your game by staying
healthy and saving money at the same time.
Our customers who are members of Discovery
Health’s Vitality programme, which rewards
those who practice a healthy lifestyle, and
are holders of a Discovery Card, a credit card
for members of Discovery Health Vitality, can
If you don’t have a Discovery Card and want to sign up, you can do so easily if you’re already a Discovery Vitality member. Call 0860 11 2273 or email [email protected]. Also, you can get in contact with Altech Autopage Cellular directly on 0861 23 24 24.
receive savings when they sign up with Altech
Autopage Cellular. Just use your Discovery Card
to process your payments with a debit order,
and you can save up to 20% on your subscription,
depending on what level of Vitality member you
are, and how many years you’ve been on the
programme. It’s a simple and healthy way to stay
in touch and save money.
Discovery Card holders get up to 20% cash back at Altech Auopage Cellular when they sign up for a new contract with us
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what’s on
WESTERN CAPE
KWAZULU NATAL
EVENT: GOOD FOOD & WINE SHOWLOCATION: FORESHORE, CAPE TOWNDATE: 24 – 27 MAY 2012
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ALL THE HOTTEST EVENTS THIS MONTH
South Africa regularly tops lists
of most popular places to visit,
so it would make sense that the
country hosts one of the top
tourism industry events in Africa.
Indaba is South Africa’s event for
everything and anything tourism
related. If you want to know
about game lodges, tours, or
hotels, this is the place to go.
South Africa’s most glamorous food event comes to Cape Town this year
with the usual super line-up of celebrity chefs and food world luminaries,
including Heston Blumenthal, James Martin and The Cake Boss. No less than
nine state-of-the-art kitchen theatres will be showcasing the culinary arts:
there will be book signings, kitchen equipment and a great selection of organic
produce. The show moves to Durban in August and Joburg in September.
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May is the month of bridal fairs
and Port Elizabeth boasts its own,
put on by the Herald newspaper.
Soon-to-be brides can peruse
over 120 stands showcasing the
latest in bridal trends, featuring
everything they might need, from
bouquets to beauty treatments.
One lucky bride will even win a
paid-for dream wedding.
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While Joburg might not be as
famous as the Western Cape for
its wine, it certainly has its fair
share of connoisseurs. The annual
Johannesburg Wine Show is a big
event for wine makers. This three-
day wine show features tastings
and exhibition and is a great
chance to get some good deals on
the country’s top wines.
EVENT: INDABALOCATION: DURBAN DATE: 12 - 15 MAY 2012
EVENT: BRIDAL FAIRLOCATION: PORT ELIZABETHDATE: 26 - 27 MAY 2012
EVENT: JOBURG WINE SHOWLOCATION: RANDBURGDATE: 4 - 6 MAY 2012
WHAT’S ON
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