Buea-based African job search engine Njorku rolled out a major update to its platform this week, with an eye toward improving relevance of search results, performance and scalability. Additionally, they have expanded their offerings to include job search in Uganda and Egypt.   The Njorku search engine crawls websites with job and classified listings serving African countries and indexes results based on keyword searches. The search results are available to job seekers in Cameroon, Nigeria, [...]

RIM has just released its financial results for the latest quarter, Q3, which are pretty impressive. However, BlackBerry fans waiting for the upcoming QNX-based handsets will be disappointed as the company has also revealed the release date is now likely to be late 2012.   While there is undoubtedly some good news coming from RIM, with a 24% increase in revenue compared to last quarter, to $5.2 billion, and a 33% rise in the number [...]

Samsung has revealed it’s broken its previous record for mobile phone sales, having sold more than 300 million phones in 2011.   This is pretty impressive, especially when you pause to consider this means an average of almost 820,000 Samsung phones sold per day during 2011 – or 34,000 per hour, 570 a minute, or an average of 9 sales a second!   In addition to high-end devices, its more affordable handsets have contributed to [...]

BuzzCity Predictions for 2012   2011 has certainly been a busy year for the mobile industry and there have been some real changes.  Basedon our experiences of the past year, I wanted to share my top five predictions for 2012…   By Dr KF Lai, co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of BuzzCity.   1. Marketers finally accept fragmentation. 2012 is the year when developers and brands finally give up on trying to target a particular [...]

  Okay, you’ve decided to buy an iPhone but now comes the tricky part – which one to buy?   With three different models available, you need to work out what features you’re after and what price you’re willing to pay, so let’s take a quick look at the iPhone 4S, iPhone 4 and iPhone 3G S in a bid to help you decide.   Apple iPhone 4S The latest iPhone has been snapped up [...]

RIM has been forced to rethink its BBX naming because of a trademark dispute. Revealed via Twitter, the official name of the new OS, expected in the middle of 2012, is BlackBerry 10.     Unveiled back in October, the hoped-for name of BBX was to reflect the fact the next-generation platform is a mix of the BB OS and QNX software that fuels the PlayBook tablet. However, the new OS will now be called [...]

Robert Neuwirth, author of Stealth of Nations: The Global Rise of the Informal Economy, examines how mobile operator MTN is using hawkers and street vendors as distribution agents.   Throngs of okada – unlicensed motorcycle taxis – manoeuvred in and out of the pedestrian flow. Most of the passengers were purchasers. They made their deals and hefted their goods on their shoulders or on their heads. The bikes whizzed past kids selling tiny bags of peanuts, [...]

On the strength of  another mileage in telecommunication operations with the recent launch of Nigeria’s first ever e-site solution, leading operator, Airtel Nigeria has said that its transformation to alternative source of energy will improve quality of service delivery.   Deepak Srivastava, Chief Operating Officer, Airtel Nigeria, who gave this assurance while speaking to journalists after a guided media tour to the company’s e-site at Epe, Lagos  said, “The likelihood of power failure doesn’t exist [...]

Windows Phone fans take note, as two more Nokia Lumia WP devices could be braced for an early 2012 launch.   There’s the Nokia Lumia 900, a high-end handset set to overtake the 800 as the company’s flagship smartphone, and the Nokia Lumia 601, a more budget number.   First up, the Lumia 900, which leaked online following news that a brand new flagship Lumia phone is destined for the States in 2012. And no, [...]

Once upon a time there was only one Samsung smartphone that could honestly claim to be king of its ilk. But now there’s a new phone in town and it means business.   So how will the battle between the Samsung newcomer Galaxy Nexus and the Samsung old favourite Galaxy S II play out?   Well, there’s really only one way to find out – let’s see how these phones compare when they go head-to-head. [...]