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Can you hear Google’s Voice?

Posted: 26th August 2010 by Marlon in Innovation, News
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Although we do not have the full functionality in South Africa, I managed to make my first call a few minutes ago. Definitely have to keep an eye out for this especially if Google plans to open up the API for Google Voice.

Below is great advice for Smartphone Application developers. I takes you through planning to deployment and things to consider when developing cutting edge Apps for your target market:
Smartphone App Development
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One of the exciting partnerships for our company MoVigo Technologies is the partnership with a innovative Mobile Company in Finland Pajat who is the creators of a Mobile GeoService application focused on affordable GPS enabled phones. Some of the key features of MGeos are:
* define program specific point-of-interests (POIs), routes [...]

Yesterday was another great day for the RLabs and JamiiX teams as we had a guest appearance on the BBC Digital Planet Show. It was an opportunity to share about the launch of JamiiX in South Africa and Europe as well as discussing the current developments with the Reconstructed Living Lab (RLabs). Thanks to Digital [...]

The second leg of the JamiiX World Tour was Helsinki, Finland where it would be the first time JamiiX will be made available to Europe. JamiiX is a Web 2.0 technology that manages and aggregates conversations via (Mobile) Instant Messengers and Social Networks in a central place. The story of JamiiX is that it is [...]

Below is a mind map of a discussion held at the International School of Digital Transformation in Porto, Portugal thanks to Ricardo Cruz:

Over the past few years we’ve increasingly seen grassroots healthcare services not being accessible especially in developing communities. This is also evident with the service delivery to the large youth market in Southern Africa where in some cases we only have social worker or health care professional for every 40 schools in most parts of [...]

It has been one month since we’ve re-launched our Angel support service a partnership between Reconstructed Living Lab (RLabs) and MXit. Since then the service had over a 100,000 subscribers with just over 47,000 regular subscribers. Organisations who are working with youth should consider the use of Mobile phones as part of their programmes and [...]

Latest research by RLabs and the JamiiX Mobile Drug Counselling support system provided the following evaluation:
- In practical terms, the advisors have the capacity to help more people (n = 27) in a two-hour session than advisors at helplines (n = 4).20 The DAS system aggregates the conversations for the advisors, allowing them to [...]

Today marked the 10th day since we’ve moved our Drug Advice Support (DAS) service over to JamiiX in collaboration with MXit. It was also an opportunity for JamiiX to test out its new Virtual Machines provided by our hosting partner ISLabs. The partnership with ISLabs really brought much better performance to the DAS service therefore [...]