MMA announces election of South Africa Local Council Co-Chairmen
Ahmed Ismail Kajee joins Rick Joubert to lead local activity. 22 Dec 2008 05:35
International recognition for SA digital initiatives
South Africa can certainly be proud of its digital developers. Recently, African social media aggregator Afrigator was voted one of the Top 10 International Products for 2008 and received an honourable mention in the Top 10 RSS and Syndication Products of 2008 list by ReadWriteWeb, and Tyler Reed of social and mobile media marketing agency Younique was named as one of mobileYouth's Top 20 Youth Marketing Bloggers. 12 Dec 2008 14:14
seventeen hits over 100,000 subscribers on MXit! - 8 Ink Media
After joining forces with South Africa's leading mobile chat service MXit in June, seventeen magazine has grown its contact base to over 103 159 subscribers. In the past six months subscribers have made 680 000 content downloads including horoscopes, emoticons, wallpapers, skinz and boy advice. 12 Dec 2008 11:40
Vodacom's Grid launches talent content
Vodacom today, Thursday, 11 December 2008, launched gridstar, a mobile talent contest than can be entered by anyone with a cellphone and its location-based social networking service, The Grid. Monthly gridstar winners can win cash, with the grand prize being a professionally produced video to the value of R100 000 to kick-start their entertainment career. 11 Dec 2008 10:39
ICASA ITA for mobile TV provision
The Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (ICASA) is calling for interested individual electronic communications services, broadcasting services and electronic communications network services licensees to apply for frequencies to provide mobile digital video broadcasting services. 10 Dec 2008 11:10
Launching 'thief-proof' POCit money
This is the time of year insurance brokers warn is paradise for thieves: people have received bonuses and are Christmas shopping so are more likely to be carrying cash and cards, making them easy pickings for nimble-fingered pickpockets and armed robbers. 8 Dec 2008 12:30
Starfish Mobile forms strategic partnership with Global Media Alliance - Starfish Mobile
Starfish Mobile International, the largest independent integrated mobile content service provider in Africa has partnered with Global Media Alliance Ghana Ltd (GMA) in order to access the Ghana mobile market with ease. This strategic partnership will lead to the country's local offices being renamed Starfish Mobile Ghana Ltd. 8 Dec 2008 11:06
Morkels reaps benefits from mobisite - Multimedia Solutions
Morkels has found that its use of mobile technology in its marketing campaigns has had a direct impact on its bottom line. 4 Dec 2008 11:28
Magazine cover shot by camera phone
The cover of the latest issue of Vodaworld magazine has been shot using a commercially available camera phone, the Sony Ericsson C905 Cyber-shot. “The resolution of camera phones has reached the level where they're no longer gimmicky; they're real cameras,” says Andrew October, editor of the title. 3 Dec 2008 09:05
Digital navigation on the rise
South Africans are more likely to get completely lost in Johannesburg, than in any other city in the world. That's according to the findings from one of the largest navigation studies to date, conducted by Nokia in 13 countries around the world including South Africa. 3 Dec 2008 08:34
Marketing and engaging consumers through mobile at last 2008 AMASA CT meeting
Chris Rolfe will cover the best methods of marketing and engaging with consumers through the mobile medium on Thursday, 4 December 2008, at the final AMASA Cape Town meeting for the year. 2 Dec 2008 09:01
Zoopy relaunches service and adds TV and mobile offerings - Zoopy
Zoopy, an online and mobile social media community based in South Africa, has unveiled an overhaul of their service, including a new identity, a new website and the introduction of two new services: Zoopy TV and Zoopy Mobile. 1 Dec 2008 12:50
MXit campaign for World Aids Day
Social networking platform MXit is putting its technology to work to help raise HIV/AIDS awareness this World Aids Day, Monday, 1 December 2008. The company has teamed up with South African National AIDS Council (SANAC) to launch a campaign that should simultaneously raise HIV/AIDS awareness amongst a key target group - the youth of South Africa - and raise money for future projects. 1 Dec 2008 08:52
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