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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.

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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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ENTERTAINMENT

Future houses keep

you connected

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Smart Home Solutions: This company automates

both homes and hotels,

focusing on lighting.

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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

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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.

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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.

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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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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.

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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

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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.

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CINEMATIC

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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.

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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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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

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