In August last year Google announced the opening of their new office’s in South Africa. This move was celebrated as a positive sign for South Africa and Africa in terms of connectivity and the effects on small business development and ultimately job creation. With over 30 million mobile users in South Africa, many predicted that [...]

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Most of the Internet giant, Google’s revenue is derived from programs such as AdWords, their flagship pay-per-click advertising product. An AdWords advert allows an advertiser to secure valuable rankings on Google search pages. Advertisers specify the amount they wish to bid for keywords, bid rankings depend on the popularity or demand placed on a particular [...]

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It is reported that investor Carl Icahn said on Monday that he is sueing Motorola to force it to hand over documents related to its mobile devices business, and he urged investors to elect his own set of candidates to the Motorola board. “Over the past 12 months, the statements and prophecies of Motorola’s management [...]

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Google yesterday unveiled plans for a new family of wireless devices that will operate on soon-to-be-vacant television frequencies, and sought to lessen fears that this might impede TV broadcasts or wireless microphones. In comments filed with the Federal Communications Commission, Google sketched plans for low-power devices that use local wireless frequencies to access the “white [...]

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Many new mobile phones will be equipped with GPS receiver chips as the popularity of satellite navigation devices gets more widespread. A billion chips a year are expected to be shipped to mobile manufacturers within the next five years, and the more that are shipped, so selling prices will continue to fall. The average price [...]

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Even though it has plans to release a competing technology, Microsoft has agreed to license Adobe’s Flash Lite technology for its Windows Mobile operating system and browser. The two companies are expected to announce today that Microsoft has signed a license to use Flash Lite and Reader LE in future Windows Mobile handsets as plug-ins [...]

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Yahoo took advantage of the CeBIT conference in Hamburg, Germany to announce the forthcoming launch of onePlace, a content management solution developed as part of the company’s growing mobile services. The platform works on a system of bookmarking, allowing users to categorize their favorite content and then view it with ease on their mobile device. [...]

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Google Gears is starting to make real sense. Sure, it’s handy to be able to launch your web application when you don’t have Internet connectivity, but how often does that happen? Your mobile is probably offline most of the time, anyway. Google Gears now work on Windows Mobile 5 or 6 devices – enabling you [...]

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Users of the Opera Mini or Opera Mobile web browsers will see Google take Yahoo’s place as the default search on March 1st. People devoted to Yahoo’s oneSearch will need to go an extra step to reach it from their handsets after Saturday. Opera announced a change to their browsers’ default search, making Google the [...]

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