Growth In Tunisian Mobile And Internet Users

Thursday, September 18th, 2008

Figures recently released by the Ministry of Communication Technologies reveal a significant growth of mobile phone and internet users in Tunisia. In June 2008 the two mobile phone operators (Tunisie Telecom and Tunisiana) had a combined 8.12 million mobile phone subscribers up from 7 million twelve months earlier.
At the same point, there were 2.68 million […]

Info2cell Launches Wide Range Of Ramadan-themed Services

Wednesday, September 10th, 2008

Info2cell.com, the leading mobile application service provider in the Middle East, has announced that it has launched a comprehensive range of new services for its subscribers to commemorate the holy month of Ramadan.
The new services have been active since September 1, 2008, and are part of info2cell.com’s strategy to constantly deliver fresh and innovative services […]

GSMA’s Global Mobile Awards 2009 & Mobile Innovation EMEA Tournament Open For Entry

Friday, September 5th, 2008

The GSMA just announced that entries are invited for the 2009 Global Mobile Awards and the penultimate round of its Mobile Innovation Global Competition, both of which will be presented at the mobile industry’s biggest annual event, the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona on 17 February 2009.
The GSMA’s Global Mobile Awards are a unique platform […]

UAE Has Highest Mobile Penetration In The Arab World

Monday, August 11th, 2008

According to a new study by Kuwaiti-based Inter-Arab Investment Guarantee Corporation (IAIGC), a key Arab League body, the UAE had the highest mobile phone penetration in the Arab world at the end of 2007, with its subscribers far exceeding its population.
Figures showed the number of mobile phone subscribers in the country stood at 7.6 million […]

Javna Launches MobiAd Mobile Advertising Platform

Sunday, August 10th, 2008

Javna, a leading Arab company in the field of mobile software solutions and wireless applications has launched MobiAd, the first mobile ad application that allows users to earn money.
The Amman-based company said the program needs only to be downloaded on users’ cell phones free of charge, to start immediately accumulating points and collecting money. In […]

Info2cell Partners With Future TV To Provide Content To Mobile Phone Users In Saudi Arabia

Friday, August 8th, 2008

Info2cell.com, the leading mobile application service provider in the Middle East, has recently announced the signing of a content license and distribution agreement with Lebanon-based Future TV to provide video and MMS clips of hugely popular TV programmes, ‘Rossoom Mutaharirah’, ‘La Yomal’ and ‘Abou Riad’, to mobile phone users in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia […]

Info2cell Launch SMS and MMS Content Services In Sudan

Saturday, July 19th, 2008

Info2cell.com, the leading mobile application service provider in the Middle East, has launched mobile short message (SMS) and multimedia messaging (MMS) content services in Sudan through a joint venture with ADU Communication Technology, a local telecommunications specialist.
The partnership will see high-quality SMS and MMS content services for the booming domestic mobile telecommunications market in Sudan, […]

Middle East & Africa Mobile Revenues To Hit $107 Billion By 2013

Friday, July 11th, 2008

Operator-billed service revenues across the Africa & Middle East region are expected to rise to more than $107 billion in 2013, according to a new report from Juniper Research.
The report found that growth would be driven by mobile data services, fueled by the greater availability and wider variety of rich-media content coupled with lower browsing […]

Places.ae Dubai Location Based Directory Goes Mobile

Sunday, July 6th, 2008

Places.ae, the Dubai location based directory, previously reviewed here, have taken their service one step further, officially launching the mobile version of their service at http://m.places.ae
The mobile version has been under development and test for a while now, and now that BlackBerry support has been integrated into it, it has been launched officially.
This mobile version […]

weNear Launch Location Based Applications Competition

Tuesday, July 1st, 2008

weNear, a mobile platform for location-based services and applications, developed by Egyptian company eSpace, just launched a location based applications competition today, which is open to students of The Computer Science Department at Alexandria University, Egypt.
The competition consists in building interesting location based applications using the weNear API. It starts today, July 1st, and the […]

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