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A recent blog posting by Dr. Bill Maurer on the CGAP website spoke about mobile money’s innovation crisis. The author claims that nothing new has happened in mobile money since Mpesa was launched in Kenya, with the possible exception of the launch of Mkesho this year in Kenya as well.Besides that development, ...

China’s largest online company, Tencent, has bought Beijing-based social networking provider Comsenz from search giant Google and VC firm,Sequoia Capital for $60-million.Comsenz is the developer of Discuz, China’s most-used bulletin board system (BBS), with a reported 80% of Chinese sites running the BBS, and 70%of other BBS systems built on ...

MobileMe, a suite of internet-based services from Apple, has been been available for the last 10 years. But when Apple recently updated their online mail app to very little fanfare, it became clear that many people are missing out on the superb services available from MobileMe.At $99/R850 for single users ...

Location-based services like Google Latitude, Foursquare, Gowalla and, more recently, Facebook Places (currently rolling out gradually to US users) are tremendously useful and fun to use. But they also highlight some pretty serious privacy issues you should be thinking about if you use these or similar location-based services.You need ...

A brand new YouTube Mobile site, built in HTML5 has launched globally, adding support for more devices and promising faster downloads, social connectivity through Facebook, Twitter, and Google Buzz, and incorporating a touch-friendly interface.According to YouTube, the mobile device has become central to the video-sharing site's growth. Its mobile version ...

Have you received an e-mail over the last few months asking you to write a "message in a skottel"? Or encouraging you to ruin someone else’s photo via "photobombing"? If so, then you are aware of the J&B Start a Party campaign, an innovative marketing campaign that has harnessed the ...

On the 10th of July 2008, the mobile phone landscape was altered forever with the launch of Apple's App Store. Hip, funny, useful software applications quickly became one of the prime reasons for choosing a handset and an operating system and a brand new commercial economy was born.Companies gave developers ...

Can one truly have a pocket sized netbook and a phone in one package? Or does one function fall by the wayside in favour of the other? Memeburn took a look at the Nokia N900 to see if it makes the grade as a netbook/phone hybrid.At first glance the N900 ...

Where in the World are you most likely to be hit by a malicious computer attack or virus? According to Internet Security company AVG web surfers in Turkey, Russia, Armenia and Azerbaijan are the most likely to face threats while online.At the other end of the scale, some of the ...

Measuring your brand’s social media equity can be a tricky business. Confronted by the multitude of platforms, buzzwords and measurement tools you might be tempted to simplify both your metrics and your strategies. After all, who’s to say that a follower on Twitter is more or less valuable than a ...