- Wednesday, March 10, 2010, 7:33
- Africa, News, Press Release, Software
- 184 views
More than 200 million smartphone users worldwide now have Skype at their fingertips
Skype and Nokia has announced the release of Skype for Symbian, a Skype client for Nokia smartphones based on the Symbian platform, the world’s most popular smartphone platform. Skype for Symbian will allow Nokia smartphone ...
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- Wednesday, October 28, 2009, 12:28
- Featured, Hardware, News, Press Release, Software
- 1,960 views
Espoo, Finland. - Nokia has released a new Nokia N97 software update 2.0 that adds new user experience elements and functionalities to the device. The standard version of the Nokia N97 software update 2.0 is available immediately through the PC on the
Nokia Software Update website, and will be followed by a wide range of country and operator versions over the coming weeks as ...
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- Wednesday, May 27, 2009, 8:49
- Africa, Cote d'Ivoire, Egypt, Featured, Gabon, Kenya, Libya, Mozambique, Namibia, News, Nigeria, Software, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia
- 3,038 views
Newest State of the Mobile Web report profiles aggregate operator data in top 10 countries. Opera today released its newest State of the Mobile Web report. The report provides information on the top global trends affecting the mobile Web.
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- Tuesday, May 26, 2009, 17:39
- News, Software
- 3,681 views
Ovi Store by Nokia is now available globally to an estimated 50 million Nokia device owners across more than 50 Nokia devices including the forthcoming flagship device, the Nokia N97. Customers can visit store.ovi.com through their Nokia device browser to immediately begin downloading, personalizing and making their devices smarter and more fun with applications, games, videos, podcasts, ...
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- Sunday, March 29, 2009, 19:50
- 3.5G/HSDPA, 3G (WCDMA), Africa, EDGE, Feature Article, Featured, GPRS, GSM, Ghana, Hardware, Nigeria, Software, Technology, West Africa
- 5,308 views
This article essentially seeks to review two contrasting Nokia phones, with the view of highlighting the major attributes of both devices respectively.
Many mobile phones attempt to do everything from simple texting, to GPS navigation but these phones are better at some things than the others thus the need to classify them. Before now, I had used an i-mate JAQ3 Windows 5 powered-smartphone for business, along ...
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- Tuesday, March 24, 2009, 3:39
- 3.5G/HSDPA, 3G (WCDMA), Africa, CDMA, EDGE, Feature Article, GPRS, GSM, HSPA, Nigeria, Software, Technology
- 4,614 views
In June 2005, Mobile Africa published an article in which Mr. Tayo Ajakaye raised issues (and some very valid ones too) about the quality of value added services being provided by GSM network operators (see:
Value Added Services: Who Uses Them?
I followed that article ...
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- Wednesday, October 22, 2008, 6:26
- Egypt, Software
- 5,769 views
Opera Software uncovers exponential growth in Africa’s mobile Web usage in its latest State of the Mobile Web report. Published today, this September 2008 study focuses on the African continent, where Web browsing on the mobile phone far exceeds traditional desktop-computer surfing.
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The use of Opera Mini in Africa increased by 180 ...
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- Tuesday, July 22, 2008, 13:39
- Software
- 5,858 views
CardBoardFish, the low-cost SMS specialist, today launched FishText, a mobile application that substantially reduces the cost of national and international ad-free texts from a mobile phone. FishText is Java-based and runs on most handsets. There is also a web-based version at www.FishText.com. Both bypass a mobile operator's network and thus enable ...
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- Saturday, June 28, 2008, 8:06
- Software, South Africa
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Clickatell, leading provider of global mobile messaging, today announced its partnership with Santam, South Africa’s leading short-term insurer, to provide a text-based fraud reporting channel, as well as improved results from Clickatell-powered Santam call center using SMS text alerts for claims processing.
Jerry Chetty, Head of Forensic Services at Santam, says, “The main reason behind this innovative addition ...
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