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Last week, All Amber hosted the third Mobile Web East Africa conference in Nairobi. The event, which allows key industry players to share ideas, addressed various issues ranging from the mobile film industry, the work of NGOs in Africa, to startup developers demonstrating their wares.This helped provide greater insight into the mobile market both in East Africa and the rest of the continent; proving that Africa should be considered as one of the most important up-and-coming players in ...
One of Kenya's biggest mobile network operators has announced that it will soon start pushing smartphone adoption in a big way: by phasing out the sale of feature phones.Speaking at the Mobile Web East Africa conference in Nairobi, Nzioka Waita, Director or Corporate Affairs at Safaricom, said that “Safaricom is soon going to stop selling the cheap feature phones in all our retail outlets, as we try to skew the Kenyan market towards smartphones”.He added that as much as the ...
Technology in Africa is on the rise and mobile is leading the charge. The disruptive tech and the makers on the continent are getting global attention.People around the world are talking about the continent's tech potential and development in a big way. One example of this is the Africa Gathering annual conference to be held in London in mid June.The conference, organised last year in collaboration with the Indigo Trust Foundation and Google, aims to give people this year the ...
Kenyan small business directory Mocality is calling it quits after four years of operation, saying "all good things must come to an end". The announcement came via the company's blog and gave very little detail around the shut down.According to the post, the company will be operational for just another two weeks before it all comes to a halt. "All of the Mocality Kenya and Mocality Nigeria operations will be closed on the 28th [of] February 2013," says the post. ...
Were you wondering what Chinese internet giant Baidu was planning to do in 2013? It seems the answer may involve making further inroads into Africa. Baidu is planning on investigating the market through a new deal freshly inked with mobile operator Orange, which will see its browser pre-loaded on Android phones in Africa and the Middle East.According to the Wall Street Journal, the co-branded product won't just be a standard edition of Baidu's fast browser, but one that has ...
In the last couple weeks I’ve had the opportunity to be in Nigeria (Maker Faire Africa), followed by South Africa (AfricaCom). Along with Kenya, these countries represent the biggest technology countries on the continent. They are the regional tech hub cities at this point in Africa.In both places I was struck by how different each country is, and the challenges and opportunities that arise due to the tech community’s connectedness, regulatory stance and local entrepreneurship culture.Some TheoriesSouth Africa has so ...
When the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) released the list of the potential new generic top level domains (gTLDs), it seemed that .app was the one to watch: no less than 13 organisations applied to manage the domain. But .africa is also causing some trouble, as the two organisations that applied for the domain battle it out.The group that manages South Africa's .co.za domain, UniForum SA, which trades as the ZA Central Registry (ZACR), was the only ...
Maybe, just maybe, Google is getting it wrong in Africa. I recently attended a very good session on responsive design by Luisella Mazza, and although I think responsive design is awesome, it's not for Africa. She (and Google) recommended that anyone building for an African audience use responsive design to build their mobile sites.What is responsive design?
A new feature in HTML5 (or rather CSS3) is the ability to add media queries rules. So inside your CSS you can add conditions ...
It seems the mobile money space in Africa just became a little bit more crowded. MTN has partnered with retail chain Pick 'n Pay to offer South African consumers a new mobile bank called Tyme Capital.Tyme (which stands for 'take your money everywhere') is not just a mobile wallet though -- it's a full-scale mobile-only bank that offers most of the services you'd expect from any other banking service. It offers users the ability to send, receive, deposit and ...
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