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  • New mobile phone firm launches today 19 Nov 2009 21:53 GMT
    ... Kampala Smiles Communications Uganda Limited, the seventh telecommunications company in Uganda ... General Manager, Mr Carrington Philip, the South African firm with the code 02 targets low income ...

  • Mobile phones tantlize and trouble Africa 18 Nov 2009 14:52 GMT
    ... million, but a quarter is in South Africa," says Mo Ibrahim, the Sudanese businessman who ... helping people to keep in touch, the cell phone has become an essential business tool, says ... small and medium-sized enterprises in Africa, the mobile phone has overtaken the computer as the most ...

  • Mobile phones tantalize and trouble Africa 19 Nov 2009 00:14 GMT
    ... million, but a quarter is in South Africa," says Mo Ibrahim, the Sudanese businessman who ... helping people to keep in touch, the cell phone has become an essential business tool, says ... small and medium-sized enterprises in Africa, the mobile phone has overtaken the computer as the most ...

  • Oberthur Technologies' M-commerce security solution deployed by Zain in Africa and Middle East 17 Nov 2009 10:17 GMT
    ... M-Commerce security solution for 15 sub Saharan African operations of Zain, a telecommunications operator across ... gateway, enables Zain customers to use their mobile phone to securely pay bills and to pay ... Oberthur's solution, over 100 million people in East Africa are expected to benefit from Zap. ...

  • Africa Must Probe the Invented Wheel 18 Nov 2009 03:11 GMT
    ... !" loosely translated to mean "Too much English will not save Africa!" That was 2007. I had made my ... efficient brainwashing machine unlike its sister the cell phone where the content is driven by the ...

  • China's phone firms help Africa go mobile 17 Nov 2009 10:30 GMT
    ... China's phone firms help Africa go mobile By Peter J Brown The ... needed - despite a worldwide surge in cell phone usage, fewer than three out of every ...

  • Can Africa Raise $93 Billion for Roads Annually? 19 Nov 2009 12:21 GMT
    ... Can Africa Raise $93 Billion for Roads Annually? (AllAfrica.com Via ... of her GDP on infrastructure compared to Kenya's 21% and Tanzania's 20%. The report points ... notes that due to regulatory barriers, the mobile phone market has yet to fill its full ...

  • The Kenya you see is not always the one you get 25 Nov 2009 22:21 GMT
    ... 25 2009 at 18:18 NOW THAT THE KENYA DR- aft constitution has been published, the ... chair the National Security Council. Because in Africa, the man who carries the big stick (i.e. controls ... Consumer Insight (CI): We know that the mobile phone Zain is not the biggest in Kenya. ...

  • Battling Malaria in Uganda 18 Nov 2009 13:33 GMT
    ... My mobile phone rang. Another nephew was down with malaria, ... and another chance. Every day, a million Africans are stricken by this horrible disease. The possibility ... ban flowers and foods from Uganda and Kenya – or refuse to buy them – ...

  • Learning to overcome fear in Nairobi, Kenya 18 Nov 2009 07:55 GMT
    ... high school. They need everything, including a mobile phone so that they have a means of ... not do so while talking on a cell phone. I couldn’t help but laugh, but I ... cheap clothes. Picture if you will an African flea market for a million people. I ...

  • BoP mobile life in Kenya 23 Nov 2009 21:36 GMT
    ... for many millions of people living in Kenya at the Base of the Pyramid, living ... yet many of these people understand how mobile phone technology can save them money in their ... providers servicing rural poor communities in Sub-Sahara Africa and South Asia -- explores how people living below ...

  • Kenya Recruits Somali Refugees to Fight Islamists Back Home in Somalia 24 Nov 2009 19:33 GMT
    ... (Hagadera Refugee Camp, Kenya) - For months, 18-year-old Ahmed ... weren't protected by a UN-sponsored force of African Union peacekeepers called AMISOM, which sometimes fires ... until Daud was able to borrow a cell phone to call his father, who hired a ...

  • Egypt and Algeria Bring Soccer War to Sudan 18 Nov 2009 18:16 GMT
    ... Egypt and Algeria Bring Soccer War to Sudan Egyptian soccer ... in next summer's World Cup in South Africa, that at least 15,000 police officers have ... young brother and showing pictures on his cell phone he says his brother died and that ...

  • Oberthur Technologies Helps Zain Break New Ground in the Field of Mobile Commerce 17 Nov 2009 07:30 GMT
    ... security solution for Zain's 15 sub Saharan African operations. Zain's Mobile Commerce solution, Zap, is ... which enables Zain customers to use their mobile phone to securely pay bills and to pay ... their bank accounts. Over 100 million people inEast Africa can now benefit from Zap. The service ...

  • Zain Voted Most Respected Local Firm 24 Nov 2009 14:14 GMT
    ... — Zain Tanzania has been voted "2009 Most Respected Company" in the country by East Africa's top CEOs. The mobile phone giant was unveiled as the winner at a gala dinner held at a Nairobi ...

  • Safaricom Scoops Top Award Yet Again 23 Nov 2009 08:56 GMT
    ... during the 2009 CEO's Most Respected Company (East Africa) awards, which were dominated by mobile telephone ... winner, to second place ahead of pan-African mobile phone operator, MTN, during the awards, whose theme ...

  • Essar Lowers Cross Network Tariff, Buys Into Firm 17 Nov 2009 22:54 GMT
    ... in these countries. Essar chief executive officer East Africa Srinivasa Iyengar said subscribers will now have ... cut cost. Roaming is the ability of mobile phone subscribers to use their mobile phones when ...

  • Mobile phones aid family planning 26 Nov 2009 05:12 GMT
    ... dramatic rate with the number of global cellphone subscribers in 2006 being estimated at 2.5 billion ... growth in Asia, the Middle East and Africa." Cantor, who was attending the International Conference ... communication. One World's Mobile4Good in Kenya uses mobile phone technology to inform subscribers about opportunities for free ...

  • Way 2 Impolite! [column] 20 Nov 2009 11:56 GMT
    ... Kampala — Wainaina denies leading African lit renaissance but offers tips on how ... on how it can succeed - via mobile phone Binyavanga Wainaina is a literary legend in ... location or economic status. Wainaina suggests the cell phone: ...

  • NuMobile, Inc. to Present Kaizen Communications Acquisition Strategy and Potential Contribution to $ 17 Nov 2009 11:15 GMT
    ... solutions for the global mobile computing and smartphone market. NuMobile has previously announced two acquisitions ... the US alone. CTIA further cites that cell phone penetration in the US has now exceeded ... large part by the growing number of mobile phone sales into emerging economies that currently do ...

  • Orange Wins 20 Nov 2009 11:55 GMT
    ... that allow easy internet access from a mobile phone or computer, in all areas where Orange ... Agency of the year 2009 in the Africa Investor Investment and Business Leader Awards 2009. The ... of baked clay building products in the East African region, won the 17th Uganda International Trade ...

  • Stocks That Stand Out For Nov. 18th, 2009 Are MRNJ, BLVI, LFBG, HLXW, NUBL 19 Nov 2009 09:56 GMT
    ... in the Mediterranean Sea between Italy and Africa. Installed in September on the Pembroke Primary ... solutions for the global mobile computing and smartphone market. NuMobile began its roll-up strategy earlier ... large part by the growing number of mobile phone sales into emerging economies that currently do ...

  • NuMobile, Inc. Announces 3rd Quarter Update Webcast in Conjunction With Current Financial Report Reflecting Recent Acqui 25 Nov 2009 00:11 GMT
    ... solutions for the global mobile computing and smartphone market. NuMobile began its roll-up strategy earlier ... large part by the growing number of mobile phone sales into emerging economies that currently do ... emerging economies of Latin America and East Africa. NuMobile is a SEC fully-reporting public company ...

  • NuMobile, Inc. Announces 3rd Quarter Update Webcast in Conjunction With Current Financial Report Ref 25 Nov 2009 00:14 GMT
    ... solutions for the global mobile computing and smartphone market. NuMobile began its roll-up strategy earlier ... large part by the growing number of mobile phone sales into emerging economies that currently do ... emerging economies of Latin America and East Africa. NuMobile is a SEC fully-reporting public company ...

  • www.standoutstocks.com: Stocks That Stand Out For Nov. 25th, 2009 Are JNTX, KATX, RFMD, NUBL, HRRN 25 Nov 2009 17:22 GMT
    ... solutions for the global mobile computing and smartphone market. NuMobile began its roll-up strategy earlier ... large part by the growing number of mobile phone sales into emerging economies that currently do ... emerging economies of Latin America and East Africa. NuMobile is a SEC fully-reporting public company ...


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