Johannesburg

Hey Jo’burg! It’s time for our next Mobile Monday Event – This time at the Protea Fire and Ice in Melrose Arch! Microsoft’s acquisition of Nokia’s Devices and Services business has completed, and Microsoft is focused on bringing exciting devices, and apps, to South Africa and the rest of the world. Windows Phone is doing incredibly well locally, and there is much excitement around the new Nokia X platform which has launched elsewhere in the world – providing a huge global market for apps. At our next Mobile Monday Jo’burg event, Microsoft will be showing the latest devices, running hands …

Hey Joburg! We hope you are all surviving winter and now that we’ve passed the halfway mark towards spring, it’s time to turn up the heat! We’re excited to announce that we will finally be hosting a Mobile Payments themed Mobile Monday event. We have been working behind the scenes to get the “big guns” out to keynote this event, the wait is over. We are proud to announce that we have secured VeriFone as headline sponsor for this event. VeriFone is the global leader in secure electronic payment solutions. Since 1981, VeriFone has designed and marketed system solutions that …

Hey Joburg! Okay so we know this is last minute ( .com ) and we know it’s cold and we know you all just want to stay at home BUT here at Mobile Monday South Africa we say get up, get going and join us for Mobile Monday Joburg – Screw it lets do it @ JoziHub on the 24th June ( yes that’s this Monday! ) We know it is short notice but we really want to get the community together as it is long overdue and we want to kick off next week with a bang because it …

Welcome to 2013! This will surely be another year of innovation in the mobile industry, so to celebrate and showcase what is to come we have lined up some innovative mobile companies/services/products which will be showcased for you at our event on the 18th February at 6PM! Register Here We are lucky enough to have as our keynote speaker Yolande van Wyk the CEO of eWallet Solutions at FNB, she is at the forefront of innovative mobile solutions and a self-confessed technophile and geek! We will have other speakers and start-up/SME companies showcasing ( showing off ) their innovative mobile …

Joburg are you ready to experience what is set to become the future of marketing, driving, paying, gaming, shopping and everything else in your world? Of course we are talking about Augmented Reality ( for proof of this just Google “augmented reality future of everything” ) Mobile Monday on the 3rd September will be themed “Augmented Reality – Taking Mobile to a Whole new Level” and we will be showcasing how AR is taking over the way you experience reality in your daily lives. For this event we have the only company that could do this subject justice, Qualcomm, the …

WOW, do we have something special and exciting for you this month, our next event on the 25th June will focus on “Mobile in the Enterprise” and we have brought together 3 powerhouses in the mobile enterprise space covering all aspects including devices, security, device management, app management, mobile integration into the business and of course the all important CLOUD! Our generous sponsors are: – Samsung, the leader in mobile phone sales in the world, enough said! – Magic Software , a global provider of mobile and cloud-enabled application and business integration platforms with over 25 years of experience, thousands of …

Following on from our hugely succesful event earlier this year, we are holding our annual startup pitch event, you may remember our event last year that was massive and proved to everyone that mobile innovation is alive and kicking in Joburg. This year we are kicking it into overdrive and we have an awesome sponsor, Rorotika Technologies, who will help showcase some amazing mobile innovations with the theme “Changing the World through Innovation”. After the sponsor’s welcome and presentation, by Rorotika CEO, Frans Joubert, there will be an opportunity for a number of pre-selected mobile innovators to present their “elevator …

Welcome to 2012! From the team at MOMO Joburg we wish you all the best for the year ahead! To get the year off to a rocking start, please join us for the first MOMO Joburg of the year, “Mobile Applications and the Developer Community in South Africa”. With smartphone penetration in South Africa at 16% and rising, apps are going to be a critical tool for us in the way we use our mobile devices  sponsored by Vodacom Digital Media, who is advancing the Mobile apps and the developer community in South Africa. After the sponsor’s welcome, we’ll have …

 Wow can you believe that there are only a few shopping days until Christmas! To celebrate the end of the year, MOMO Joburg is hosting a HUGE end year event to end off the mobile year in style! Our sponsor is 8ta and they are helping us put on quite a show with the help from their friends at Samsung — Yes there will be some handsets given away, so bring your business cards for the draw! Speakers, theme and more information will be released in the coming weeks so please keep your eyes on your Inbox, our Twitter account …

We are excited to announce that MOMO Joburg will be officially supporting MOvember, a very worthy cause in which MO bro’s ( guys ) grow a moustache through the month of November to create awareness of Prostate and Testicular Cancer and to encourage donations to the official MOvember association which helps with cancer research and more!

Today we are launching our campaign for this cause, we encourage you all to register on our MOvember community page here ( http://mobro.co/MOMOJoburg ) and post photos and donate what you can afford!

We will be having a competition at our huge end of your event on the 21st and prizes will be given away to those who have grown the best MO from now until the 21st, so everyone get growing ( or going ); and for all the ladies, get creative there is no reason you cant win best MO ( we will have a ladies prize too )

You can get more information about MOvember on the Mobile Monday global page here.