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Hey All – It’s coming up on Moustache Season again! The annual MOvember campaign is gearing up and we are thrilled to support this fantastically Fun – and – Worthy cause. Check deets below and get your training pants on to Grow a Mo! ABOUT MOVEMBER The idea for Movember was sparked in 2003 over a few beers in Melbourne, Australia. The guys behind it joked about 80’s fashion and decided it was time to bring the moustache back. In order to justify their Mos (Australian slang for moustache), they used their new looks to raise money for prostate cancer …

Launching at this year’s GITEX show – the largest technology and telecom trade show in the Middle East – the first MoMo Dubai event will debut in style at the TiE Entrepreneurs Lounge, Mobile Apps & Content Showcase, Sheikh Saeed Halls, Dubai World Trade Centre at 6pm on October 10, 2011. We invite all stakeholders of the mobile industry to join us at the launch of MoMo in Dubai and to become active members and participants of its future events. MoMo is a not for profit initiative set up for the mobile community by mobile enthusiasts and aims to bring …

Pyramid Research recently highlighted infoDev’s contribution to supporting and promoting mobile innovation in Africa and the Middle East. According to Pyramid Research‘s “Africa & Middle East Telecom Insider” (Vol. 3, No. 7, August 2011), infoDev was named “a standout place for mInnovation to flourish.” Mobile Monday, Tahrir Sqr, and the Nokia “Create for Millions” Contest were also named. Pyramid Research cited infoDev as being “at the forefront of providing the tools that help inspire and advance the field of mobile innovation” and offered the iDisc global network of incubators as an example. The report goes on to observe that, “In sub-Saharan Africa, there are 66 incubators …

Mobile Monday Melbourne is proud to announce that BlackBerry have extended and stepped up their annual sponsorship to our Diamond level, providing Mobile Monday Australia with funds for our national sponsorship and many new initiatives in the months and year ahead. This new Diamond level of sponsorship will cover all 5 Mobile Monday Australia Chapters including Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide & Perth up until end of June 2012. BlackBerry’s national endorsement is a testament to their endeavours to work closely with the local Australian mobile community by partnering with Australia’s leading mobile industry networking event, Mobile Monday. To celebrate our …

Safaricom announced a Kshs 20 million grant to a new research centre at Strathmore University dubbed @iLabAfrica in an event attended by the PS in the Ministry of Information and Communication, Dr. Bitange Ndemo among other notables. The grant is the first part of support to set up and run the centre which will conduct research on telecommunications policy and has a business incubation facility. Thirty five students who demonstrated their applications at the centre have been under the tutelage of instructors from M.I.T (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). This comes after Alex Nyika, a student at Strathmore won the Base …

For developing countries like Ethiopia, mobile phones have been a revolution. No longer do remote villages have to wait years for a telephone wire to reach them. Instead families and friends, clients and customers are connected without the need for costly, cumbersome physical infrastructure. It is conceivable that someday soon every Ethiopian will have a mobile phone improving the quality of their lives by opening up an array of personal and commercial opportunities. Building on these positive developments, the city’s premier technological innovation hub, iceaddis, presents Mobile Monday! WHAT: Mobile Monday – Leading mobile phone technology entrepreneurs and visionaries from …