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Skillpod Media grows presence on Apple iOS and Android App stores

November 1st, 2011 | admin

SkillPod Media, although a relatively new player in the world of mobile apps and, more specifically, mobile game apps, is making headway in this congested market. The first of their apps were launched at the end of June 2011 and are currently published across Apple iTunes, Android Market, Amazon App Store, SlideMe.org, LG World and a host of other app stores across the globe. To date, 11 mobile games have been developed for Android and Apple iOS, all of which have been approved and are for sale across the various app stores.

Tags: Amazon App Store, Android, Apple, configure, games, iOS, LG World, mobile, mobile apps, SkillPod Media, SlideMe.org, Social Gaming Solution
Posted in Media, News from the Group, Offical Press Releases

Integrat Continues to Serve on WASPA Management Committee

March 15th, 2011 | admin

Convergence Partners investee company Integrat continues its strategic role in the industry via the election of its Operations Director, Dieter van Rooyen, to the WASPA management committee for the 2011/12 term. WASPA is the Wireless Application Service Providers Association, a self-regulating body that governs mobile telecommunications value added services.
Integrat has been a member of WASPA since its inception in 2004 and has served on the management committee for two terms, says Norman Parkin, Integrat CEO, who has stepped down from the WASPA management committee.

Tags: aggregator, Code of Conduct, Compliance, Consumer Protection Act, Dieter van Rooyen, Integrat, management commeetee, mobile, Norman Parkin, Telecommunications, WASPA, Wireless Application Service
Posted in Media, News from the Group

Convergence Partners exhibiting at AfricaCom on 10 and 11 November 2010

September 23rd, 2010 | admin

Convergence Partners, together with investees Seacom, Integrat, SkillPod, Comsol, Inala, Bloodhound, Convergence Wireless Networks, New Dawn and Convergence Border Management Solutions will be exhibiting at Africa Com 2010 at the International Convention Centre in Cape Town on the 10th and 11th of November 2010. We will also be profiling the Convergence Partners Foundation and the great work it has done in 2010. AfricaCom is the largest Pan-African industry event in Africa, with more than 4000 attendees from more than 200 operator companies across Africa.

Tags: 2010, AfricaCom, African, Andile Ngcaba, Cape Town, conference streams, exhibition, fixed, industry, ISP’s, Keynote Session, mobile, operator, Pan-African, satellite, stand, Telecommunications, telecoms, visionary, WiMAX
Posted in Media, News from the Group

New Dawn profiled in Communications Africa Magazine

August 11th, 2010 | admin

In the latest edition of Communications Africa Magazine, the technical and commercial benefits of geostationary communications satellites are assessed, contrasting them to both the failed high profile experimental satellite technologies of the previous decade, as well as to other communications technologies in Africa, notably fibre, as it arrives on the continent’s shores in abundance. In particular profiling the New Dawn satellite.

Integrat launches innovative myTXT Mobile product – a free desktop bulk messaging application ideal for marketing campaigns

June 10th, 2010 | admin

Integrat has launched myTXT Mobile product – a free desktop bulk messaging application ideal for marketing campaigns. myTXT allows a user to send single messages or bulk SMSes to your group of contacts that you import from Microsoft Outlook.

Tags: application, bulk messaging, Corrie Henn, desktop, Integrat, mobile, myTXT, SMS
Posted in Media, News from the Group

Andile’s thoughts from Mobile World Congress (“MWC”) 2010 in Barcelona: 10 key trends and developments

February 24th, 2010 | admin

Having attended the Mobile World Congress, the largest global telecoms conference (attended by 49,000 visitors from 200 countries) in Barcelona this year, the following 10 key trends and developments came to the fore.