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MobiBlitz will be using the approaching Computer Faire to show two different ways that engineering can be used to attain users via their ever-present cellphones. The exhibition will take topographic point at Sandton Convention Centre, Johannesburg, 20 - 23 May 2008.

MobiBlitz co-founder Farhad Omar explicates that visitants will be encouraged to switch over on their phones' Bluetooth capableness when they get at the convention centre. While they're at the show, they will have messages on their telephones relating to products, services or particular offerings at Computer Faire. These messages will be "pushed" to visitors' telephones via Bluetooth, which is the short-range radio frequence networking engineering that lets devices to pass on within limited areas. They will associate specifically to Computer Faire and will assist to maximise visitors' experience at the show.

"These messages will only be received on the visitors' cellphones while they're actually visiting Computer Faire," Omar explains.

The engineering is similar to what retailers, promenade directors or sporting event organizers might utilize to go through on information or particular trades to shoppers or audiences while they are at the specific venue. In improver to the "pushed" messages, visitants will be able to utilize their cellphones to entree information about Computer Faire. This volition include flooring plans, news and selling information.

"All the information on the Computer Faire land land site will be housed on the Mobizone mobile site," states Omar. "Visitors will be able to utilize their mobile telephones to make anything they can make on the Internet - expression for information, program their visit or registry as a visitor, either before the event or once they're there."

Users accessing the Mobizone at Computer Faire will be able to make so via the Bluetooth network. Once they go forth the show, they will still be able to entree the content via GPRS.

There's one large difference between the manner users traditionally download content via GPRS and the manner they entree it on Mobizone, though - on Mobizone it's liberate and reportedly superfast.

Omar explicates that GPRS usually costs about R2.00 per MB of downloaded content. With Mobizone, however, users browsing the content without actually downloading it, so there is no cost involved.

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The Mobizone portal already gives users speedy and easy entree to news, weather condition and horoscopes, among other content, which users can access freely on the cellphones. As the engineering goes more than pervasive, the company will add other services and applications.

Omar believes South Africa is ready to begin addressing the cellphone marketplace in a meaningful way, and offers like Mobizone are positioned to do an impact in this new environment.

MobiBlitz was founded by Stan Katz and Omar in 2005.