Continuing on from Google advancements in Offline Gmail access. Google Sync has recently launched the beta version of Google Sync. Google sync allows one to sync your Google Account address book and calendar with your mobile device.
The service is bidirectional so that one can also sync with your desktop as well. The consequence is that [...]

We posted a story a short while ago on MTN’s Mobile domestic money transfer pilot, and it seems that Mxit have joined the party too.
According to Mxit founder and CEO Herman Heunis, the tie up will make it easier for Mxit users to buy the social networking service’s money credits, called Moola, by [...]

Mobile is big (especially in Africa), the range of services you can access from your cellphone is growing daily. Now even wine enthusiasts can receive recommendations via sms. Hello Vino is a new wine pairing and suggestion tool that can be accessed both via the web and from any mobile device.
The hello Vino tool asks [...]

It seems like something you would find in James Bond Q’s lab, but now finally we too can have a watch that so much more than just a watch.
LG is the first major cell phone manufacturer to launch a Watch Phone. At CES 2008 they displayed a concept watch phone, but claimed they wouldn’t bring [...]

The mobile web was huge this year – the iPhone app store in particular introduced a flurry of new mobile applications. Read Write Web have compiled a post on their Top 10 mobile web products of 2008

We’ve launched our Amorphous Direct division, which is geared at boosting our direct digital marketing offerings.

Spending on the established tactic is still rising.
Marketers’ attitudes about e-mail affect their approach to strategy, judging by a study conducted in August and September 2008 by MarketingSherpa.
Respondents who thought that e-mail was becoming more effective were 50% more likely to increase their budgets annually and be concerned with staying relevant than respondents who thought [...]

This is part 2 of Read Write Web’s focus on Africa, Part 2 is about mobile innovations in Africa. Below are some of the top level stats on mobile from the report.

Those of us who live in Africa are well aware of the dramatic and growth the web and mobile technologies are experiencing. Particularly in SA there is no shortage of tech intellectual capital and the industry is changing and growing at an exciting pace.

Nokia has developed Agenda 2015 (pdf) as a vision of how the physical world will fuse with the digital world seven years from now. It’s a look at how people will be connecting not only with one another, but also with every place and thing in the world, as well as the surprising ways in [...]