Mobile

A group of grade 11 learners at Sinenjongo High School in Cape Town, South Africa has written four letters to major telecom operators Vodacom, MTN, Cell C and 8ta to address the need for free access to Wikipedia via their mobile phones. This comes after the Wikipedia Zero initiative promoted ...

Yes, the internet is speeding up -- or at least, Google thinks so. The search giant has published a report on the aggregated site speeds gained from consenting Google Analytics users, which shows that despite the fact that webpages have increased in size, they are loading faster -- especially on ...

We know Google's big in mobile. If it wasn't Android probably wouldn't be the most widely distributed smartphone OS on the planet and the internet giant certainly wouldn't have doled out what it did for Motorola's mobile division.We also know that Google's making money from mobile. It wouldn't have ...

The people of Kenya will today start voting in a presidential election. Things have been tense in the lead up to polling day and mobile will play a critical role in both the monitoring and reporting of the situation on the ground.The poll is set up to be ...

Open source geeks of the world rejoice! Ubuntu will soon be available for smartphones courtesy of Canonical, the company founded by entrepreneur and space tourist Mark Shuttleworth, for the promotion and commercial support of free software projects. The OS is designed at challenging iOS and Android's dominance in the space.Ubuntu ...

MEF, a global community for mobile content and commerce, has launched a dedicated African office to help promote mobile growth and showcase innovation on the continent. Headquartered in Johannesburg, the MEF Africa Office, launched in association with mobile operator Vodacom, will reportedly serve as a hub for MEF's African membership. ...

We all know that mobile in Africa is a big deal. It allowed countries to leapfrog some Western technologies and has fostered innovative products like Mpesa. Less well known is the actual number of mobile subscribers. Hint: it's big, and will only get bigger.The number of mobile subscriptions ...

Success in the mobile space is all about “glocalisation”, says Ralph Simon from mobile strategy company Mobilium.Speaking via Skype from Russia at the Tech4Africa conference in Johannesburg, Simon talked about the importance of making content that’s in line with global trends but that is at the same time locally relevant ...

No, I’m not going to talk about MPesa, you can read all about the Kenyan grandfather of mobile money here, here and here. Rather, let’s look at other key mobile money products across the rest of the continent, as well as some up-and-coming, ones-to-watch that will be demo’ing at DEMO ...

It's finally happened, ahead of schedule too. More people in India now access the web via mobile than fixed-line access.The latest data from tech research company StatCounter suggest that 56% of the country's population now accesses the web via mobile, versus 45% who access it via desktop.Source: StatCounter ...