Matthew

Following on the success of Afridoctor winning the Nokia innovations competition, the labrats have done some planning to take the application to the next level.

Below is an edited version (for we cannot reveal all :)) of a powerpoint presentation, by myself and Blueworld’s Bradley Voges, which describes our future strategy. The original idea for Afridoctor came from wizz-kid Werner Erasmus — his idea beating 12 others in an “ideas” competition we had internally in 20FourLabs.
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Afridoctor

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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Ronald

Once you’ve read the article below, make sure you enter the 20fourLabs Nokia Comes With Music competition (see bottom of page) to stand a chance of winning one of two Nokia XpressMusic devices (with unlimited music downloads for 12 months) or Nokia Music Store vouchers to the value of R2,500!

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Bradley Voges

Just four weeks ago 20fourlabs and Blueworld Communities decided to enter into the Nokia Calling All Innovators Africa competition, obviously confident of the talent we have in our stable. This competition calls for innovators around the world to develop an application that can be utilised on a specific range of Nokia phones. The application is to have a specific African focus and make use of key Nokia phone features (maps, location based services, etc). For more information on the competition go to: www.callingallinnovators.com/africa
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Ronald

It’s been over 6 months already since the launch of 20fourLabs so here is an update on the state of our mobile apps:
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Stefano

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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Ronald

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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