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MPesa: What does Kenya’s mobile darling look like five years on?
When MPesa launched five years ago, only the most optimistic would’ve thought that it would turn into the economic force of nature it is today.Today the mobile money service has around 15-million users and about a third of the Kenyan GDP passes through it. Some think that MPesa has disrupted entire economies and others that it is the only real economic disruptor of the 21st-Century.The numbers bear that kind of thought out too. People can deposit money into MPesa ...Indian mobile web set to overtake desktop usage, bucking BRICS trend
Mobile web usage looks set to overtake desktop usage in India by the end of the year.Source: StatCounter Global Stats - Mobile vs. Desktop Market ShareTHe latest numbers fromStatcounter show that online desktop usage is plummeting at almost exactly the same rate as mobile web usage is surging.That large numbers of Indians are using their phones to go online isn’t surprising when you consider the prohibitive cost of broadband, and the relative affordability of phones in ...Mobi.lity — A lifeline for railway commuters
When civil engineer Justin Coetzee took a position as a public transport planner, he decided to leave his car parked at home and started taking the train to work in the morning. His daily route opened his eyes to the inconsistency of railway transport in his hometown of Cape Town, and in South Africa as a whole.The given timetable is unreliable. Commuters do not know when they will get to work or arrive home, nor are they privy to ...Smartphones to grow most in emerging markets, Android will dominate
Whatever opportunities there might still be for people wanting to exploit the feature phone market, smartphones are eventually going to win out.Some 488-million smartphones shipped in 2011, representing a nearly 63% increase from 2010.Sounds like a lot, but it’s less than a third of the 1.7-billion devices that tech research company Ovum reckons will be floating around by 2017. The majority of those phones, it says, will be running Android.Ovum thinks that the biggest growth area for ...Mobile porn subscriptions to be worth $1bn by 2015
As the cast of the musical Avenue Q once sang, “the internet is for porn”. Given that we increasingly use smartphones and tablets online, it’s hardly surprising that mobile adult content revenues are expected to hit US$11-billion by 2015.Yup, that’s right. Our mobile gadgets are set to become just as dirty as our desktop computers.According to tech research company Juniper Research, the massive growth in adult content will largely be down to more people buying smartphones and tablets. ...Mobile sensors to be worth $6bn by 2016 [Report]
Micro Electronic Mechanical Systems (MEMS) are crucial pieces of equipment in our smartphones and tablets. You might take them for granted, or might not even know what they are, but 4-billion are set to be built into our mobile devices by 2016.MEMS include accelerometers, gyroscopes, magnetometers and others such as pressure, humidity, and temperature sensors -- some of which are crucial to the Augmented Reality and Location-based services found in so many of today’s devices.Thing is, those 4-billion ...Are smartphones encouraging self-diagnosis?
I'm going to start this post with a little disclaimer to save my own ass: if you're ill, go see a doctor. Of course, sometimes we all have little aches and pains that we don't want to bother our hard-working GPs with, and the temptation to get on the net and start Googling the answer is just too great. In fact, even when I do plan to a see a doctor, I don't think I've ever not Googled first -- just to ...340m people to transfer money via mobile by 2016
Kenya gave the world hope for the future of mobile money with MPesa. After all, over 20% of the country’s GDP is moved through the service. Replicating that success outside Kenya has, however, been difficult.That may all be about to change though, with the number of people using their mobile phones for person to person (P2P) transfers expected reach 340-million by 2016, up from 84-million last year.According to UK-based tech analysis company Juniper Research, the most likely new ...Top tips for taking your blog mobile
It’s time to take that last step and go mobile. Your competition is already there with nice, neat, accessible and entertaining blogs. Just because you’re online doesn’t mean your readers are compelled to visit you from their smartphones. You have to make it simple and enjoyable for them.Why go mobile?There is a reason people use mobile apps instead of opening clunky browsers on their phones and looking up information as they would on a desktop computer. People turn to mobile ...Mobile and video are where it’s at with online advertising
As media consumption habits change, so must the habits of anyone wanting to be found online change with them. As of 2012, the vast majority of online advertisers in the US are shifting their budgets to mobile and video because this is where most people consume their online media.This is what the US market looks like across the digital landscape for 2012 :According to a study by eMarketer; almost half of all US advertisers (49%) planned on boosting ...
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