4,000,000 free SIM cards

[Cape Town | ITWeb, 29 May 2003]

Communications minister Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri says the Department of Communications has agreed to a proposal by the cellular phone industry for four million free SIM cards to be distributed to economically disadvantaged people in SA… more

WOW! SIM cards that operate themselves; no cellphone required … view full post

Mobile news

Vodacom launched faster web browsing (GPRS) and multimedia services (MMS) in South Africa last week. Of Vodacom’s 7.2 million subscribers in its home market, more than 200 000 have GPRS-enabled phones, and over 10 000 have MMS phones.

MTN launched it’s GPRS offering in July but will only begin billing this month. View the full … view full post

Code into cash

Turn your code into cash.

The mission, should you choose to accept it, is for you to create the leanest, coolest and most practical application for the new Sony Ericsson P800 Smartphone. This feature rich Symbian OS v7.0 phone, has a large color touch-screen, camera and … view full post

Wireless Camera Phones Will Outsell Digital Still Cameras By 2004

A report from the Strategy Analytics Global Wireless Practice notes that 16 million camera phones will be sold worldwide in 2002, growing strongly to 147 million in 2007. By comparison, although 22 million digital still cameras will be sold worldwide in 2002, their slower growth rate of 34% will result in only 95 million sales in 2007. MMS will fuel … view full post

Interception and Monitoring Bill

Under the current version of our government’s Interception and Monitoring Bill, it will be a criminal offence not to report the loss or theft of a SIM-card or cellular phone smart card to police within 24 hours.

SPs and telephone companies will have to acquire any equipment the government thinks necessary for interception, at their own cost, and establish links to … view full post

Balance is a Beautiful Thing

Balance is a Beautiful Thing

Key features: large color display, ergonomic keypad with four-way scroll, multimedia messaging, user-changeable and downloadable Java™ applications, GPRS, high-speed data, WAP, stereo FM radio, integrated handsfree speaker, tri-band world phone

Wow.