Cell C recently rebranded and rethink its strategy in the South Africa mobile space and made it clear that they are ready to take on the bigger cellphone operators MTN and Vodacom. With the relaunch of Cell C’s branding the company also announced that they will be launching a brand new 4G network capable of [...]
Yesterday I was lucky enough to have had a hands-on session with the all new Nokia N8. I must say that I was really impressed with the device and consider the Nokia N8 as the next level in multimedia smartphones. For those of you interested in whats going on under the hood of the Nokia [...]
Google will today be launching a brand new tool called App Inventor that will enable just about anybody to create apps for Android phones. App Inventor enables you to create games, draw funny pictures and even make use of the phone’s sensors to move a ball through a maze based on tilting the phone. The [...]
Mobile and apps are today what the dot-com bubble was back in the late 90′s, and it comes to no surprise that Google knows this and that’s why they are now introducing apps in its search results. Normally when you are looking for a certain app to do something you would like, you set out [...]
Just yesterday I told you about Facebook’s new mobile site, Facebook Zero, that allows users to browse Facebook from their mobile phone without being charge for the data they use. In my post I speculated that MTN may be the first operator to offer this service in South Africa and guess what? This morning upon [...]
In a continent like Africa most of the people use their mobile phones to access the internet, but one problem most of us face is the expensive data charges that goes along with that. Enter Facebook Zero, Facebook Zero is a new mobile site like m.facebook.com with all the same key features but more optimised [...]
Vodacom and RLabs have teamed up to bring you the “Community Information Challenge 2010″. Many people in local communities have mobile phones and use them for voice and text. However, the use of mobile Internet is growing fast and can be used to enhance local communities. The mobile Internet can be used to share many [...]
The Android based HTC Hero has won the prestigious award of Best Mobile Handset. HTC just announced that its HTC Hero was awarded the prize of the best mobile handset at the 15th Annual Mobile Awards. “A remarkable 500 entries from across the global mobile ecosystem were submitted this year, all of an extremely high [...]
Recently I started working on my own project called TweSMS, the ideas was spawned by Rafiq Phillips after there was a demand for twitter users outside the US to receive their tweets via SMS. After I started working on TweSMS I eventually saw the great potential there still is in the mobile market, especially in [...]
I few weeks ago I started on a project called TweSMS, a twitter SMS notification system for people that does not have coverage with twitter’s own SMS notification system. The project was inspired by Rafiq Phillips from Web AddiCT(s); and soon after that I started coding on basic functionality. Today I am proud to say [...]
