Local mobile operator Cell C has announced the start of a new campaign and competition aimed at the customers who have shown large amounts of support for the company. The initiative is called Believe and no, it’s not affiliated with a certain Canadian pop singer. Part of the campaign is a series of new television, radio and print ads. The TV commercial, which is central to the Believe campaign, features former Miss South Africas Bokang Montjane and Melinda Bam, along with celebrity presenter Jeanie D. The three women will be acting as brand ambassadors for the mobile operator. Cell C CEO Jose…
Author: Brett Venter
South African mobile operator Telkom Mobile has introduced a new promotional contract off which they are billing as the country’s “only Completely Unlimited package”. Called, oddly enough, Completely Unlimited, those on Telkom Mobile’s contract will be able to make unlimited calls to all networks including fixed line numbers (international, premium and VIOP excluded), send unlimited SMSes and will have access to unlimited data. If you think that this sort of promotion, which runs for an unspecified time, is going to be a little pricey then you’d be correct. Telkom has set a base price for the contract at R1,200 per…
Could we be on the way to the advent of the laser rifle? British company TWI may have taken a step in that direction by repurposing an automated 5kW laser cutter by adding a grip to the tool and handing it to a human operator. The operator is protected by a collection of inner and outer garb but the real highlight is seeing someone slicing through metal by hand. If it were the Stuff team, there would be interesting shapes being sliced into steel before any actual work got done. TWI’s innovation is intended for nuclear decommissioning but surely someone…
An Alcatel smartphone is something of a rarity at the Stuff offices but while the recently-arrived OneTouch Star wasn’t able to set the staffers abuzz it also isn’t something that can be written off as a bad investment. It just depends on who is doing the investing. The OneTouch Star comes across as a beginner’s smartphone, a device that will be overlooked by anyone who has previously had their hands on some top-flight Android hardware. Once you’ve experienced a full-featured Android OS, there isn’t any going back. Just sideways, to either iOS, BlackBerry 10 or Windows Phone 8. But, there…