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Some Mobile Industry news from Africa.
Telkom sells stake in Vodacom and will launch it’s own Mobile network?
“Telkom plans to become SA’s fifth cellular provider by the middle of next year, and is preparing to enter into talks with an existing mobile operator to roam on its network.
Speaking after presenting the company’s interim results for [...]
South African E-commerce award winners for 2008 announced
The 2008 South African Ecommerce awards, held yearly by Jump Shopping have just been announced. Having been part of the panel of judges that reviewed the sites, i can say that some of the areas that are lacking amongst South African e-commerce websites are User Experience and Design. Recommendation engines also seem to be seriously [...]
Afrigator Launches Adgator, A blog AD network for Africa
Afrigator, the African blog aggregator that was recently acquired by MIH has launched an Ad network for African blogs. I received an invite this morning, the mail say’s i could earn +- R 267 on one of my blogs.
How does it work?
Right now, you have to register and complete an application which needs to be [...]
Lower Income Customers Turning to the iPhone As an Internet Device
Cellular news reports
while 43 percent of iPhone owners earn in excess of $100,000 annually, the strongest growth in users is coming from those earning less than the median household income,
iPhone adoption since June 2008 rose 48 percent among those earning between $25,000 and $50,000 per year and by 46 percent among [...]
Maxum launches pre-incubation programme
I attended the ideaCamp session yesterday at the Innovation hub where Maxum have relaunched their Pre-incubation offer, the new dates are:
2 February 2009: Deadline for receipt of applications and powerpoint slides to be submitted to Maxum
9 February 2009: Successful applicants invited to prepare presentation for Business Beat Function
16 February 2009: Business Beat function at The [...]
Log your trips & keep track of distances traveled via SMS
TripLog, a South African startup by the guys over at Platform 45, lets you log your daily trips via SMS. This is a simple and practical solution that meets local needs. Something that we discussed at Barcamp Johannesburg, most innovation and web solutions come out of Silicon Valley. This means that the solutions solves problems [...]
9 Million rand in funding available from Safipa
Safipa (South Africa - Finland Knowledge Partnership on ICT) have launched a fund to the value of 9 Million rands and 3 million Euro’s. SAFIPA is a partnership programme between the Ministry for Foreign Affairs for Finland (MFA) and South Africa’s Department of Science and Technology (DST) which operates within the Meraka Institute of the [...]
Using Mobile Technology to fight poverty, Blog Action Day 2008
Today is blog action Day, a day when bloggers around the world focus on a particular topic and write up on it, The topic for 2008 is poverty and I am currently attending MobileActive (My Coverage).
I previously wrote about how mobiles can assist people in poverty
In a study (PDF) by Harvard economist Robert Jensen he [...]
Mobile Active 08, Startup Africa, Open Sessions
Startup Africa, have organised two sessions during the open sessions at Mobile Active 08, the first is complete and the next one is tomorrow.
MobileCamp
MobileCamp is an unconference inspired by Barcamp that we are planning to hold in South Africa, if you would like to be part of the working group, join the MobileCamp Group
Creating Digital [...]
Barcamp Johannesburg 2008
Reminder that Barcamp Johannesburg 2008, will be held tomorrow
I will be attending and you can find my coverage on my twitter stream and here on this blog. Also search twitter for #barcampjozi.
Barcamp Jozie will also be linking up with Barcamp Africa that is being held at GooglePlex on the same day. I will also be [...]
