Operator-billed service revenues across the Africa & Middle East region are expected to rise to more than $107 billion in 2013, according to a new report from Juniper Research.
The report found that growth would be driven by mobile data services, fuelled by the greater availability and wider variety of rich-media content coupled with lower b...
MOSecure has launched mobile marketing solutions with its MAP- Mobile Access Pack. MAP allows advertisers to push bar-coded vouchers and tickets to mobile consumers via SMS.
MOSecure is entering a lucrative market, mobile ad spending will reach $5 billion this year alone, according to eMarketer. A big jump from the nearly $4.1 billion in 200...
Part of its new media initiatives, Aljazeerea launch of an iPhone app is aimed at growing the reach of the English version of the channel, which is mostly banned by US cable operators.
The iPhone app is the English version of the network's content. The default page pulls 9 headlines, and has a topic button that are categorized into: Alja...
Places.ae BlackBerry version allows users to find locations near them by using GPS, making the process of finding locations of restaurants, hotels, shops and so on, more easy and more convenient when on the go.
This move puts places.ae in the LBS (Location Based Services) market, but currently Places.au services are only available in Dubai whi...
weNear a mobile 2.0 location based platform developed by Alexandria, Egypt based eSpace, has launched location based applications competition using the weNear API.
The competition is open to the students of The Computer Science Department at Alexandria University, Egypt.
The final submission date is 31 August 2008 11:59 PM Alexandria ...
Nokia has introduced new Maps 2.0 services in the Arab region as part of Ovi, the company's mobile internet service brand name.
Maps 2.0, the updated version of Nokia Maps has left beta stage and is now ready for consumers to download. Nokia's mapping and navigation solutions give people navigation features, local content and world maps directly o...
I've been privileged to receive an invite to Brightekite privet beta a few days ago, for those who do not know the service it is a location based micro blogging and photo sharing social network, my profile is here.
On BrightKite you can use both the web and mobile to send your status update or photos. From the mobile you have to check in your cu...
It is quite clear to any one that convergence between media and telecom is happening, we can add IT too.
The internet is a telecom medium but it is also a media medium, where a new bread of media company popped up years ago called New Media like yahoo, now the most notable trend is web 2.0: blogs, Wikis, social network, social media, etc. VoIP i...
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