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Tweet Through garbled SMS and MMS messages, it seems that we won a Bronze and a Gold Loerie this evening, for Peugeot 107 in the mobile category and for Peugeot 107 again in the Mixed Media category. I’m sure once the hangovers have cleared tomorrow I’ll get more detail and a clearer picture.

Tweet Insure by phone. An interesting article over at insurance news portal announces that Metropolitan Life have launched a new product called Cover2go – simply SMS them a number to have R10 deducted from your airtime and be covered against accidental death for the next 6 days for R60,000. It’s been launched as a trial in the taxi ranks in [...]

Tweet An update on that whole US presidential race going online that I mentioned before – well the latest is that there will be a Republican vs Democrat debate online. Users will be able to post questions and have them answered in real time. It will be interesting to see how well something like this holds up as I’m sure [...]

Tweet The AtPlay update from 20th April: So apparently the iPhone will be launched at the end of June and Cingular (official carrier for iPhone in the US) have requested 1 million iPhones for the launch. And that’s just to cover the people that have already signed up. Over 6.5 million Nintendo Wii’s have been sold worldwide, and you may [...]

Tweet This was the first AtPlay update that went out on the 12th of April, as mentioned in the previous post. The Numbers Game China Mobile (the worlds largest mobile operator) announced that they now have 301 million subscribers. That’s more than the entire population of the United States. Apple has sold 100 million iPods. In five and a half [...]

Tweet This morning I had a whole blog post planned around more Google goodness, but then our Nintendo Wii arrived. After much scurrying about to find a UK to SA plug convertor, we managed to set it up just in time for the afternoon meetings. By the time we got back to the office the girls had mastered Wii Bowling, [...]