Mobile

YouTube introduces video offline playback for Android

Google has introduced offline video playback for YouTube mobile users. This feature is only available on Android devices in India, Indonesia and the Philippines…

Google mobile results are now 100-150 milliseconds faster on Chrome for Android

Google search results are getting faster than you can say ‘Google it’. According to IIya Grigorik, a developer advocate at Google, when you tap…

Thumbtom is an app that pays you to look at advertisements

Currently trending on South Africa’s Google Play store is Thumbtom — an app that pushes ads to your smartphone’s lockscreen in return for vouchers…

MHealth has plenty of work to do when it comes to security

According to the World Health Organisation, Sub Saharan Africa is home to 12% of the world’s population yet shoulders the burden of 26% of…

Mobile search could overtake desktop as soon as next year…in ad dollars that is

Stop for a moment and think about how many searches you do on a mobile device, as opposed to a desktop. Now think about…

Mozilla Firefox might be coming to an iPhone near you

It looks like Mozilla is planning on bringing its Firefox web browser to iOS. If current mobile and browser stats are anything to go…

Apple patents an iPhone drop mechanism that alters device angle in freefall

We’ve all experience it: that horrifying moment when you drop your smartphone, wondering whether your screen is about to be smashed to pieces. That…

Muted opening day for iPad mini sales in Asia: small device, smaller queues

While Apple fans lined up in Asia to get their hands on the iPad mini that went on sale today, the crowds queuing were…

Can Mozilla really disrupt mobile like it did the web? [Tech4Africa]

Look at the figures. Android and Apple are completely dominating the smartphone space. Despite the best efforts of its competitors, no seems able to…

Ralph Simon: mobile success lies in being ‘Glocally’ relevant [Tech4Africa]

Success in the mobile space is all about “glocalisation”, says Ralph Simon from mobile strategy company Mobilium. Speaking via Skype from Russia at the…

Are smartphones turning people into workaholics?

Research in Britain has found that our all-encompassing magical devices are “doing us in” by adding an average of two hours work per day….

Apple reclaims the term ‘app store’, this time from Amazon

Apple seems to think that it can claim a chunk of the English language as its own: specifically, the name for its “pioneering” App…

Android or iOS? Facebook ads can now target specific mobile devices

Developers and advertisers that use power edition and the Facebook Ads API now have the ability to choose which mobile platform their ads appear…

Google Play Music gets serious: adds more songs, primes for European launch

Despite the fact that the press launch was cancelled due to hurricane Sandy, Google still débuted its new Nexus phone, larger tablet and an…

Smartphones dominate Indian web use, tablets on the rise

Smartphones are clearly gaining serious traction in India. People in that country now spend far more time online using their smartphones than desktops or…

Phone tech to enable rural Nigerians to surf the web in local languages

A phone technology called InternetSpeech could allow more than 100 000 illiterate farmers and traders residing in Nigeria’s rural areas to browse the web…

Samsung still king of smartphones, Nokia falls out of top 5

No matter how many times you see research showing just how far Nokia has fallen, it’s still jarring. Once the world’s largest mobile phone…

Android user? Your apps could be your weakest security link

According to the BBC, thousands of apps in the Play Store have failed in implementing standard scrambling systems, thus failing to protect bank accounts…

Android tablets increase in global sales… but it’s not what it seems

Apple iOS tablet sales are still on top in the world, but recent figures show that Android has made a considerable increase in sales….

iOS is the king of mobile advertising, Android worse than BlackBerry

If you want your mobile ads to pack real punch then they’d better be on iOS. And while Android might be installed on more…

Music service rara.com launches new apps, enters 7 new countries

UK-based music streaming service rara.com has announced that it has expanded to reach 27 countries worldwide — including South Africa, Brazil, Mexico, Hong Kong,…

What people really want from mobile money services in emerging markets

No bank account? That’s becoming less of a problem thanks to the proliferation of mobile money services which let you send cash and pay…

What are we doing to protect kids from the dangers of smartphones?

We live in a time when many four-year olds are able to pick up an iPad and operate it better than most adults, where…

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