The headlines from Nokia World in London have centred around two things: Its new smartphones running Windows Phone (the new Nokia Lumia 800 and Nokia Lumia 710), and a persistent message around "connecting the next billion".While its marketing message has the convenience of a Really Big Number, connecting a healthy ...

Sony has announced that it will buy out Erricsson's 50% stake in Sony Erricsson and turn it into a subsidiary by January 2012.In an official press release, Sony said that Ericsson will receive US$1.5-billion for its stake in Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications. The transaction will most likely be completed by ...

As the co-founder of SOFTtribe limited, one of the leading software houses in West Africa, Herman Chinery-Hesse has been described by the BBC as "Africa's Bill Gates". Chinery-Hesse is known for designing software that is "tropically tolerant" in that it takes into consideration Africa's specific environmental, political and societal challenges.In ...

Writing the subject line is often the last and most hurried step before sending an email, when it should actually be the other way around. These are very much a mission-critical element of your communications strategy that you shouldn't leave until deadlines are looming. In fact, those first few characters ...

As one of the youngest and most influential marketing strategists in the world, Josh Spear owns Undercurrent, a New York-based consultancy that applies a digital worldview to the challenges and ambitions of complex corporate organisations.Nominated as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum, Spear serves on the ...

In business white space is defined as a place, "...where rules are vague, authority is fuzzy, budgets are non existent, and strategy is unclear..." It's the space between the organisational chart, where the real innovation happens.It's also a great definition for what we see in Africa, and it's one ...

BlackBerry manufacturer RIM has decided to delay the release of an update to its PlayBook OS until further notice.In a blog post, senior VP of the PlayBook tablets, David Smith said:As much as we'd love to have it in your hands today, we've made the difficult decision to wait ...

No longer the forgotten step-child of South African internet activity, a study by Fuseware and World Wide Worx has found that along with e-mail, news, and banking, South Africans have now also embraced social media as a core pillar of their internet activity.The study, titled South African Social Media Landscape ...

Finnish communications giant Nokia has unveiled what it calls the "first real" Windows phone. The Lumia 800, it says, is designed entirely around the Windows Phone operating system.Addressing the audience at Nokia World 2011, currently underway in London, Nokia’s Kevin Shields called the phone "a beauty on the outside ...

While much of the attention from the opening keynote at Nokia World 2011 was focussed on the Lumia 800, the Finnish communications giant also announced that it intends targeting the "next billion" internet users.Nokia CEO, Stephen Elop said he believed that "for many people, their mobile phone will be ...