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• 08.22.10
  The future of social networking – a concept investigation with Augmented Reality Future Trends, Mobile Web, augmented reality | (51)

  Here are some concept designs that myself and ace designer Philip Langley put our heads together to create. It's an investigation into how social networking may work in the future, focusing on mobile and augmented reality (AR). Our investigations were inspired in particular by these brilliant (AR) concept drawings which I often use in presentations I give. There are some crude, but fascinating, implementations around too that inspired us. After some brainstorming and quite a few mockups, we came up with the below. Admittedly AR is the new hype. But you can see how valuable (and scary) this could be when applied ...
• 11.11.09
  The future of us Future Trends, Mobile Web, media launches | (1)

  One of the reasons innovation -- true innovation -- is so difficult to achieve, is that we're trapped by legacy. It's the key criticism of so-called old media companies. They're so culturally and institutionally programmed to work a certain way and protect old assets, that "innovation" in some contexts is merely tantamount to rearranging deck chairs on the titanic. So how is it that a wood pulp and boot manufacturing company dramatically changed their course to become one of the global cellphone giants? At most companies I've worked for, you often hear refrains like: "Ahem -- we shouldn't venture there, let's ...
• 11.03.09
  SA study: More people banking with their mobiles than PCs Mobile Web, ecommerce, online media business | (3)

  According to respected market research organisation World Wide Worx, the number of people banking from their cellphones has exceeded that of people banking from their PCs in South Africa. More than a quarter of bank customers are turning to their cellphones for services ranging from informational transaction types such as balance enquiries to financial transaction types which include account payments. This was one of the key findings from the consumer phase of the research company's Mobility 2009 research project. The study was backed by First National Bank (FNB), leaders in cellphone banking in Africa, and Research In Motion (RIM), the company ...
• 09.03.09
  Mobile strategy for publishers 24.com, Mobile Web | (4)

  Here's an edited presentation I did a while ago on mobile strategy at 20FourLabs.com. If you're not a handset maker, a mobile operator or MXIT, then you face some tough challenges in the mobile web environment. The business environment of the mobile web is dominated by a few proprietary players and is not open season like the desktop web. It means your approach needs to be different and involve heavy business development if you want to see big numbers. The presentation covers the basics, and then looks at the latest bit of buzz: Augmented Reality (AR). It's a technology using your ...
• 07.23.09
  HTC confirms August Android Market launch in SA Mobile Web | (1)

  As predicted by Ron Bach on the 20FourLabs blog, the Android market will soon be launched here. Leaf International Communications, the distributor of HTC in South Africa has confirmed the Android Market, Google’s mobile application directory, will be available to South African users from August 2009. “HTC was the first to launch Android-based handsets in South Africa during May 2009,” says Stephen Strachan, marketing director at Leaf. “At the time, the Android Market was unavailable to local users and, while we have developed a local application portal, it is great that consumer demand has resulted in Google allowing local users to access ...
• 05.11.09
  The future of mobile computing Future Trends, Mobile Web, Social networking, augmented reality | (8)

  I love these images.* It's a tale of what our future may look like. In many respects it's happening now, albeit in a crude form, via apps available for the JesusPhone like Locly, AroundMe and Snaptel. Locly and Aroundme instantly provides your phone with relevant information pertaining to your immediate location, aggregated from sources like flickr, twitter, blogs and wikipedia. Snaptel processes photos taken by your phone of real-world objects such as books, CDs, DVDs (etc) -- and then returns information gleaned from the net, right then and there, allowing you to purchase or do price comparisons based on shops in your ...
• 04.23.09
  News24 iPhone app now live 24.com, Mobile Web | Comments Off

  The News24 iPhone app is now live and ready for download in the iTunes app store. It's a project that has been in development for a while, and driven by Stefano Sessa here at 24.com mobile. Please download it, check it out and tell us what you think.
• 03.16.09
  The mobile trap Mobile Web | (4)

  Much has been written on how big the mobile audience is, and how it offers an opportunity to appeal to a mass audience. Even better, it's an environment where consumers will more readily pay via micro-payments for "Freemium Services". It's a dream come true. Or is it? But here's the challenge: There are, so to speak, a couple of rather large gorillas in the room. They go by the names of the mobile networks and the mobile handset manufacturers. Building your mobile site or service is but 30% of the job done. To really capitalise on the big mobile audiences you, ...
• 02.12.09
  YFM create iPhone app Mobile Web, online media business | (3)

  Just got a release from YFM, a Joburg radio station, that says its "the first radio station in Africa and among the first in the world" to release a custom application for the iPhone. (By "among first in the world" I presume they mean amongst radio stations.) This is due to the influence of its CEO Kathan Pillay, somewhat of a tech freak. He's a recovering journalist who has hacked a Linux kernel and majored in Political Science, Princeton University. I write this under correction, but he was also one of the first people in the world to send information over ...
• 11.19.08
  Mobile surpasses traditional web in South Africa Mobile Web | (22)

  It's what we predicted would happen. In fact it's what we thought had happened sometime ago, but here are some authoritative figures that confirm it. According to a piece in Bizcommunity, Rick Joubert of Vodafone estimates there are now at least 9,5-million mobile wap users (read: mobile web) in the country. These are combined user figures on all the local cellphone networks. In comparison, Online Publisher Association (OPA) statistics of traditional desktop web SA users, puts the local-only usership figure at around 5,7-million users. (Audited Nielsen//Netratings). Arthur Goldstuck's figures on general internet use are also near the OPA estimates, at around ...

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