It’s time for another update on the mobile applications we’ve been working on at 20fourLabs over the last few months.
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So, as you know, we are in the process of rebranding and personalising our mobile site (m.24.com), and I’ve been doing some research on what handsets are being used on our site.

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20Fourlabs, the innovation and applications division within Cape Town-based 24.com, walked away with the top honours last night in the Nokia Africa Calling All Innovators app competition. Their entry, Afridoctor, won the $85 000 first prize beating 125 other entries from developers all over Africa.

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This morning the MMA SA were kind enough to send us the “latest research data extracted from Amps”.
It makes for very interesting reading!
The growth in the mobile market in South Africa is mind boggling, have a look at these facts and see for yourself…
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It’s been on the cards for a while now, and will take a while to roll out - but we are in the process of re-launching all of our mobile publishing sites, along with adding a nifty personalization layer on top.

What this means is that once you are on the site (m.news24.com) you can, by using a simple log in, choose what content you would like to have displayed on your home page.
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Great news for those working  in the mobile industry in Cape Town. The Cape Town chapter of Mobile Monday - the world’s leading mobile community - launches on Monday the 9th of November and you’re invited!
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I received this press release today (Thanks Olga @ Nokia).
It’s not available in South Africa yet, but will be rolled out locally in due course.

Here’s the press release for you to read, print, use as a blanket or discard.

Nokia Money, a new mobile financial service enables financial management and payments from a mobile phone

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Last week marked the silent launch of our latest product, Flirtaroo.mobi – in short, it’s a mobile dating site. That’s in short.

Why did we choose this? Well we’re into social networks – and dating sites are “monetisable social networks”… ie it allows us to start with a social network that will sustain itself and pay for its way … Continue Reading

Following the recent local launch of Nokia’s Ovi store, an evolving media service that consolidates Nokia’s existing content services into a one-stop-shop for free and paid content, Nokia South Africa has delivered on its promise of bringing local content to users by partnering with News24.com to deliver the first local widget.
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Once phones with MP3 players and cameras were considered high end. Then, not so long ago, phones with GPS and accelerometers were considered to be “smart” phones. Today, these features are increasingly becoming more familiar and a feature that is now creating a lot of buzz in popular high-end mobile handsets is - surprisingly something that has been around for more than 2000 years – the compass.

You see, the magnetometer (more commonly known as the digital compass) in a mobile device not only tells you what direction you’re facing. Combined with your phone’s camera, GPS and accelerometer it suddenly opens up a whole new world to you. Or more accurately – an augmented view of your reality.
According to Wikipedia, Augmented Reality (AR) is a field of computer research which deals with the combination of real-world and computer-generated data (virtual reality), where computer graphics objects are blended into real footage in real time.
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