Mobile

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…

Know me, be me: why your smartphone will soon be smarter than you

You’ve probably already noticed the change. Perhaps your favourite travel app scans your emails for your flight details and monitors if there’s a delay…

With Android KitKat, Google knows everything you do… and that’s scary

Android KitKat (4.4) is all about “connecting the next billion users”. That’s a lofty ideal from Google, and the fact that the new version…

Vodacom results show big data growth, 6.6m smartphones in SA

The mobile networks don’t have things as easy as they once did, particularly in emerging market countries like South Africa. As fixed line internet…

Looks like Lenovo really did want to buy BlackBerry

Looking back at BlackBerry’s rapid descent into ignominy, there are plenty of could have beens. The biggest of all them all — interest in…

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…

Q&A: John Waibochi on mobile and Nokia’s future in Africa

Kenyan innovator, John Waibochi, is best known for his Nokia million dollar award at the international Nokia World and Developer Summit in London in…

Q&A: Jon Gosier on crowdsourcing and the ‘Silicon Valley of Africa’

Jon Gosier is one of the most impressive figures from the African technology scene to make it internationally. He is a TedX senior fellow,…

Apple responds: ‘We are not tracking your location’

There has been plenty of buzz about the iPhone and its operating system, iOS 4, and how it has been secretly tracking the locations…

African developers to compete on innovative Android mobile apps

Every day more than 300 000 Android devices are activated globally. A growing number of these mobile device activations are in markets across Africa,…

Partnerships in the Spotlight as Everlytic Celebrates 15 Years

Opera Mini Helps South Africans Stay on Top of Every Game

High End Devices Unlock Superior Mobile Experiences in South Africa

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