Archive | Mobile

26 March 2012 0 Comments

Android 4.0 “dusts” Windows Phone

The Windows Phone Challenge, provocatively dubbed “Smoked by Windows Phone” by Microsoft, appears to have suffered its first defeat at the hands of a competing smartphone this weekend, and Microsoft’s response has reportedly been less than sporting. The “Smoked by Windows Phone” Campaign is Microsoft’s latest advertising war where any customer in the US can [...]

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15 March 2012 0 Comments

[Phone Review]Samsung Galaxy Y Pro Duos, switch off your Blackberry here comes ultimate Android phone for you

Samsung is world’s leading mobile phone company having overtaken Nokia recently. If you are currently using Blackberry phone, I think it’s right time to switch to Android phone that will fit your lifestyle easily. A big plus is that you can use two sims on this phone!   I got my hand on this new [...]

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25 August 2011 0 Comments

[Breaking News] Steve Jobs resigns as CEO of Apple

The iconic figure of Apple as finally called it quite after an interesting times with the company.Tim Cook has been appointed CEO effectively on Steve Jobs recommendation. Steve Jobs along with Steve Wozniak founded Apple in 1976 and took it public in 1980. Apple is currently the biggest company in the world by market capitalization. [...]

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24 August 2011 1 Comment

Mobile Monday Meetup August Edition: Meet the Players

Mobile Monday monthly meetup will hold next monday.  In case you have not registered, click here to get a ticket as it’s fast running out. Theme: Meet The Players Confirmed Companies: Microsoft, MTN & Nokia Venue: TBD Date:  29th August 2011

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15 July 2011 5 Comments

Eskimi.com Mobile Social Network boasts 1.2M Nigerian Users, 50% of total Members

Eskimi.com is a Lithuania-based mobile social network which focuses on mobile flirting announced it has reached a milestone of 2.4 million users global with Nigeria making up 50%. The site founded in March 2010 internationally, in November 2010 a Nigerian version was launched. Some interesting stats were released exclusively to WebTrendsng.com; Nigerian Stats on Eskimi: [...]

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14 July 2011 0 Comments

Unbanked Africa Summit Event Details

  Mobile Money is the next big thing in the world, expert will gather today to discuss the opportunities and everything in-between. The summit is starting this morning at Oriental Hotels, Lekki Lagos. Here is the programme flow, if you still want to attend, not sure if registration is still open to the fee is [...]

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11 July 2011 0 Comments

New Mobile Communities; Localized, Integrated and Engaging

The marriage of network(s) and personal computers (PCs) catalyzed the optimization of the internet as a collaboration and communication tool – beyond its initially planned usage as a global resource sharing super-network. Another technological conjunction is about to re-define new media, particularly in the areas relating to rural – urban communication and product advertising and [...]

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05 July 2011 2 Comments

5 Smartest Nigerian Brands using Social Media

As brands battle the decision whether to go social media, how to engage new media platforms and exploring the new ways to sell their products and engage their rapidly changing consumers. While some are busy considering what to do, some are brilliantly leveraging on social media to meet the rapidly changing consumer behavior to promote [...]

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05 July 2011 2 Comments

Need Funding for Your startup? Meet Nigerian Angel Investors at “Pitch Monday”

I have heard people complain several times that there are no investors in Nigeria, that if ONLY there were, they would be competing with FB and co. This July edition of Mobile Monday, we will have investors in the houe, so you can pitch your app/startups idea/prototype to them. On the 25th of July, it [...]

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01 July 2011 0 Comments

MTN Reverses Bulk SMS Filtering

  We reported recently about the new filter MTN implemented to block SMS originating from alphanumeric senders. The caused brouhaha in the industry, even some advocated for hack against MTN. MTN seem to just realized the impact of their action and as such, rescinded. In case  you are still wondering, this filtering will prevent SMS [...]

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