Posts Tagged ‘mobile’

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Unpacking the latest SA Smartphone usage statistics

December 15, 2011
By Richard McCormack

A recent Google study on global smart phone usage included local usage here at home and revealed some interesting SA trends. It appears that smartphones are as important to South Africans, “as their wallet and keys.” Google recently announced these new research findings about smartphone users in South Africa which can be accessed on the [...]

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Citizen Journalism is here to stay

November 25, 2011
By Richard McCormack

The recent mobile recorded demise of Gaddafi in Libya highlighted an undeniable fact in modern news media. Namely that citizen journalism, far from being a fad or short term trend, as some media reported a few years ago, is here to stay and is changing the face of news media across the planet.
Footage clearly showed [...]

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It’s time to bring your #MobiBlog to life!

July 26, 2011
By Hollie Hepburn

Give your favourite blog the thumbs up on Nokia’s Ovi Store
Over the past couple of months we’ve asked you to build a mobile app for your blog using Nokia’s Ovi App Wizard. Now it’s time to reveal which blogs took up the challenge, and stand the chance of winning a trip to South by South [...]

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Better health through mobile devices and applications?

May 13, 2011
By Richard McCormack

This might sound like an advertising slogan Ringaz readers but recent medical research has shown that this claim does indeed have some veracity to it.
A recent medical case study published in the medical journal, The Lancet, has revealed a definite positive effect of mobile SMS on patient’s antiretroviral adherence.
Researchers have shown a clear and direct link [...]

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Near Field Communications: When swiping a phone is perfectly OK

May 12, 2011
By Donovan Jackson

Near Field Communications. Sounds all very sci-fi, doesn’t it, but the truth is you’ve probably been using something very similar it for years without knowing what it’s real name is. That’s because those access tokens used to get into the office car park and the access card you swipe to get into the office represent [...]

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