Jeremy George, Chief Operating Officer, ForgetMeNot Africa, talks about bringing data services such as internet-free Facebook to basic handsets in Africa.
He also explains how ForgetMeNot Africa are working with global handset manufacturers such as Sony Ericsson, to build mobile applications utilising the SMS channel.
Tags: Africa, AfricaCom 2011, applications, ForgetMeNot Africa, Glo Nigeria, handset manufacturers, Jeremy George, mobile, SMS, Sony Ericsson
Yu Kenya using ForgetMeNot Africa’s Message Optimiser (MO) technology is now empowering millions of Facebook users in Kenya, to chat on Facebook, receive news or send updates all using SMS with yu peperusha on ANY mobile phone.
Social networking revolution
Watch the video below which explains how it all works and see how yu is leading this African social networking revolution by providing convenient access on standard mobile phones, without the need for expensive handsets or data plans.
Day 2 at Digital Africa has covered a variety of topics in sunny Kampala today. (more…)
Tags: 8 th Digital Africa Summit, chat to sms, digital, digital africa, digital divide debate, email to sms, internet penetration in Africa, SMS
And over half only make one call a day
Calling - that's so 90s
The UK is falling out of love with calling on your mobile phone, with most preferring to tap out a text instead.
The data, from a survey by comparison site uSwitch of over 12,000 people, showed that over 60 billion texts are being sent per month, with around 67 sent per person on average. (more…)
Tags: SMS
