Well, Safaricom, thanks to M-Pesa, has done it again by scooping the Gold Award on the category Best Mobile Money Services for M-Pesa Money Transfer Service. Makes it the solo African winner. Below are the final winners of the Mobile Content Awards 2009
Winners – Mobile Content Awards 2009
Best Operator
Gold – Orange [...]
This is not the kind of mood one likes to wake up with but I read an article yesterday by Olga Morawczynski (Whose page at CGAP gives a 404 page maybe for a good reason) which she wrote for CGAP trying to tell us what we don’t know about M-Pesa, Kenya’s mobile money transfer. I [...]
I lost my Blackberry the moment I arrived in Tanzania a while ago and when when I went shopping for a phone, I wanted something simple yet a phone that I could get to achieve a few basics like blog, facebook, email, IM and a few things. So I hit downtown Dar es Salaam and [...]
We are all happy when we can get an extra service at no extra cost. Blackberry addicts like me must admit that without the unlimited internet service that comes with it (For a small monthly fee), it would not be as interesting. Am sure at one point or another you have tried to connect your [...]
The war of high end mobile gadgets initially dominated by Apple’s iPhone and RIM’s Blackberry has a new player threatening to take over the market. Motorola has unveiled their first Android based smart phone, The Cliq. This new gadget has a sleek design more resembling the iPhone at a glance but moves slowly to prove [...]
Technology has proven to be leaning towards beauty and love for sleek devices. The iPhone is a good example, sleek and beautiful – and its a toy for men. Now this is heading to even personal reach and soon girls will be demanding diamond rings with blutooth and all the tech talk… BCK has come [...]
Majibu.com is on and its getting into motion with a big bang! We have just announced a Blackberry 8100 give away for 3 Users who will be the first to reach 5000 points on our new question and answer blog. To enroll, you need to be a member by signing up at http://majibu.com/register and its [...]
Majibu, Swahili for answers has unveiled its new question and answer website which starts running today, 17th August 2009. A walk through it shows a lot of adaptation of Yahoo! Answers, probably the most famous question and answer website. This launch narrows the reach for the African, making it easy to find questions and answers [...]
On 08.04.09, In Africa in ICT, by Dr. Charm
A new website offering free SMS within East Africa went live yesterday, or so I seem to think. Rahasms.com to me seems to work like previously running sms websites which somehow shut down at some point. You register, activate account, activate number and there you are, 5 SMS messages to any mobile network in East [...]
On 07.29.09, In E-Commerce, by Dr. Charm
During this time and age, its a pity that huge industry players like paypal and authorize.net still have high restrictions for e-traders and online stores based in African countries. Apart from a few countries, most of Africa is restricted to 2nd class payment processing who look like risky to deal with hence loss of business [...]
