Riding the mobile payment wave

mPowa, the innovative mobile payment company, is positioned to benefit from unprecedented industry growth following a programme of international expansion. According to industry analysts Gartner, mobile payments are poised to become a half-trillion-dollar market...

Using mobile devices for hotel bookings

While mobile device usage is no stranger to the hotel industry, the rate of proliferation in their usage is staggering – and is likely to become the primary way of connecting to hotels in the near future, says Nicolette Kruger, country manager of NFS Technology, the...

BB10 launch to spur app development

App development for BlackBerry smartphones is set to explode with the launch of the new BlackBerry 10 operating system and smartphones and the BlackBerry World app store according to Simon Bestbier of leading mobile development company Realmdigital. “The BlackBerry...

The mobile retail revolution

The 2012 African Mobile Factbook (Blycroft Publishing) revealed a few interesting revelations. Users know that commerce in Africa is steadily becoming dependant on mobile, says Bevan Ducasse, CEO of wiGroup.  Some analysts are even predicting that Africa will become...

HTML5 favoured among developers

Choosing what mobile platforms to support continues to be a vexing problem for developers both big and small. Supporting one platform can be difficult enough, but now developers not only have multiple operating systems to consider, but multiple device types as well....

SMS trends for 2013

2013 will be a pivotal year for the South African SMS industry as the issue of interconnect fees is resolved, and mobile networks charge each other for terminating application-to-person (A2P) SMS messages, doing away with the vagaries of the gentlemen’s agreement...