Portfolio
Payment gateways and bridges
Africa and the world at large is witnessing a revolution in mobile and e-payments. While in the rest of the world e-payments has been the norm for years with people holding multiple credit cards,in Africa, the story is different. Mobile payments have taken root and usage is growing by leaps and bounds, with the likes [...]
Portfolio
Kelelemobile – building on pan-african mobile entertainment content
Choices to suit your lifestyle… KeleleMobile is a mobile infotainment portal where people can indulge their mobile lifestyle, express their likes and dislikes by generating, consuming and sharing content across varied genres. While primarily targeting end users on their mobile phones, KeleleMobile also provides hosted end-to-end sales channel for innovative and fully certified mobile applications and [...]
Portfolio
Sembuse, east africa’s first mobile social network
Sembuse is a mobile application developed in Java that runs on mobile phones. It is a messaging and content platform that allows users to communicated more affordably as well as access varied content items directly on their mobile phones.Users can access and use Sembuse from anywhere in the world. It allows users to communicate cheaply at [...]
Mobile, Portfolio, Web
TumaSMS: affordable, value-adding SMS messaging solutions
TumaSMS is a messaging service that allows registered users to send SMS at affordable rates from their web browser, phone, desktop or enterprise application.TumaSMS enables you, your business, or organisation to deliver messages securely, reliably and instantly to just about anyone you need to reach, wherever they are and whatever device they’re using. Whoever [...]
Portfolio
SMSokoni – a web and sms marketplace for Africa
SMSoko is an SMS/Web based market-place that enables buyers and sellers of ANYTHING to interact and transact. Using your Zunguka account, you can buy and sell anything from your car to your spoons. Vendors of goods and services are allowed to buy and sell unlimited items as long as they are registered Zunguka users. You can [...]
Dev platforms
Java Micro edition: the most ubiquitous application platform for Mobile Devices
Java Platform, Micro Edition, or Java ME, is a Java platform designed for mobile devices and embedded systems. Target devices range from industrial controls to mobile phones and set-top boxes. Java ME was formerly known as Java 2 Platform, Micro Edition (J2ME). Java ME is deployed on billions of devices, supported by leading tool vendors, and [...] Continue Reading
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Dev platforms
Blackberry application development
The mobile movement has only just begun. And Symbiotic Media is riding the crest of mobile application development in Africa. The BlackBerry® development platform has been designed with two key components in mind: connectivity and security. These components are the keystones of the BlackBerry solution’s success and let you provide unique value to both corporate and [...] Continue Reading
Dev platforms
The Symbian platform
The Symbian platform is already a robust, cohesive, well proven high-performance software system, whose scope covers the complete needs of mobile developers – from the metal, via extensive middleware, to applications and User Interfaces. This stable base is an excellent starting point for further improvement and development of innovative solutions for Africa and the world. Close [...] Continue Reading
Dev platforms
Android…mobility gone Google
Android is a complete, open mobile phone software stack from the Open Handset Alliance. Google’s Android platform is all set for an incredible growth in terms of number of users and will become the second most popular mobile operating system in three years down the line, if predictions made by an analyst firm come true. Market [...] Continue Reading
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Services, Web
Customer relationship management solutions (CRM) for SME’s and the Enterprise
Symbiotic deploys and supports SugarCRM for both small and medium sized enterprises and large coporates.Sugar CRM is the world’s leading provider of commercial open source customer relationship management (CRM) software. Founded as an open source project in 2004, SugarCRM applications have been downloaded over five million times and currently serve over 500,000 users in 75 [...] Continue Reading
Services, Web
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and Point of Sale (PoS) solutions
There are numerous proprietary and open source enterprise resource planning platforms and it is confusing for a client, whether an SME or corporate to filter through all these options with their different features and value adds.Our consultancy arm has spent a good amount of time looking at the pros and cons of the different platforms available [...] Continue Reading
Perspectives
Microsoft gets into mobile payments in partnership deal with M-com
Microsoft has joined with payment software vendor M-Com to push a mobile payment system that will be accepted by banks around the world.The two companies have built a software package called BankAnywhere which is based around Windows and Microsoft SQL Server, as well as Internet Information Services (IIS).The software is platform agnostic and will consist [...] Continue Reading
Perspectives
Idd Salim, our CTO talks to the BBC on the opportunity fibre connectivity affords and the real threat of cyber crime
Interview in progress at the BBC studio in Nairobi Continue Reading
Perspectives
Mbugua Njihia, a panelist at the Mobile Web Africa Conference – October 2009
Mobile Web Africa is a technology conference that was held in October 2009 in Sandton, South Africa to discuss the mobile web in Africa, how we can harness the potential of the Internet and applications on mobile devices. Mbugua Njihia our CEO was selected as a panelist and showcased some home grown innovations in the [...] Continue Reading
Services, Web
Social media applications for brands
Exposed to a user-base of over 250 million people, Facebook and other social media applications have become the leading platform for engaging users with branded games and utilities over the social network. A large and growing portion of some of the most valuable demographics are spending more of their time and attention on Facebook and less [...] Continue Reading
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