Mobile

How does Facebook remain relevant in a mobile world?

I noticed something over the weekend. I can’t recall the last time I visited Facebook.com on my laptop. Even though I sit at a…

Smartwatches set to lose out to tablets, fitness bands this festive season [Gartner]

If you’re the kind of person who regularly gets gadgets come Christmas time, then you might be expecting Santa to drop a smartwatch in…

13 great examples of mobile innovation [Meffys]

The next time you’re at a tech conference and someone tells you that mobile is the next big thing, you should probably stand up…

Is mCommerce the secret sauce for chat apps?

With the massive uptake in chat apps, there has been increasing news on how these services are monetizing their audiences – and who will…

3 important mobile strategies for African retailers

Mobile marketing is near the top of everyone’s priority list right now, says wiGroup CEO, Bevan Ducasse. But knowing you should be doing something…

The state of mobile: data subscriptions, smartphone ownership exploding

Most of us take our mobile phones for granted. They’re so much a part of our daily lives that we can’t imagine what the…

4 major components to finding success in a digital world: mobile [part one]

It’s a fair statement to make that we are not living in the digital revolution. We are living and breathing the history that many…

Video Review: Blackberry Playbook

The Playbook is many things to many people: an iPad competitor; a desperate attempt at relevancy; a RIM fanboy’s wet dream; just another tablet….

Broadband for the people — The next generation of mobile data access

Qualcomm is one of those companies that you’ve heard of, but that few people outside of the telecommunications industry know a huge amount about….

The incredible rise of Android apps

Probably the most significant development in smartphone technology, apart from the technology itself, is the rise of mobile applications. In fact, the International Data…

RIM’s week from hell — A sign of things to come?

The first quarter of Research in Motion (RIM)’s fiscal 2012 year results released last Friday, made it plain to see that the company is…

BlackBerry delivers touch screen phone (just add phone)

BlackBerry users are a special lot. They even have their own religious rite. The BlackBerry Prayer Pose: standing in solemn and lonesome splendour, head…

Mobile may help heal Africa

With the world’s highest rates of HIV and TB, health care provision has to be at the top of most African countries’ agendas —…

The small screen that killed the traditional advertising model

Vodacom mobile media executive, Jason Probert, believes that traditional advertising is in “steep decline”. He cites a key event in 2009 where internet advertising…

The power of mobile

If anyone needed to be reminded about the power of mobile as a medium, we were given a wake-up call by US-based digital marketing…

Q&A with Joseph Jaffe: ‘Mobile is the one device to rule them all’

In the world of marketing Joseph Jaffe is a well-known name. Jaffe is the founder of Crayon, a strategic consultancy firm that was acquired…

SA mobile ad revenue to reach a billion rands by 2012

Predictions from upcoming Mobile Mindblast conference suggest that mobile ad revenues in South Africa totalled approximately R500-million in the last year. Year-on-year growth trends…

Reports: Google to announce smartphones will replace credit cards

If one thought that Google would take a minute’s rest after yet another highly successful I/O conference earlier this month where a slew of…

Mobile web content in East Africa [Report]

Vodafone recently concluded a policy paper on “Broadband in Emerging Markets”, also titled “Making Broadband Accessible for All“. The position and reason for this…

Iraq to bring banks to the masses — by mobile

When one thinks of Iraq, the last thing on one’s mind is innovation in the tech sphere, however that is just what is happening….

Nokia ditches Ovi label

Four years ago, in what was widely seen as a ill-conceived move, Finnish mobile giant, Nokia, announced the launch of Ovi. Finally, after sticking…

BlackBerry PlayBooks recalled over ‘integral issue’

After a long wait, and less than a month into it being available to the public, Research In Motion’s (RIM) much awaited, slated but…

Why it’s a good time to be developing mobile apps in Africa

The African mobile developer community should be smiling right now, what with being ideally placed to take advantage of a number of factors that…

Maziv’s Fibre Push Brings Rural South Africa Closer to True High-Speed Internet

Innovate47 Launches Global Food & Agri Accelerator to Back Climate-Smart Startups

Simbi Wabote’s 10-Year Roadmap: How Nigeria Achieved 54% Local Content Growth

Records Tumble In Best Year Yet For South Africa’s Hedge Fund Industry

Acer Unleashes Beastly New Predator BiFrost and Nitro GPUs with AMD Radeon RX 9000 Series

Philips Evnia Drops Jaw-Dropping QD OLED Monitors: 240Hz, Ambiglow, and All the Good Stuff

Omoda C5 X review

TDK enhances IMUs for extreme temps

Data centres and defence are reviving diesel