Open Technologist

Download MXit for Mac and PC – Adium and Pidgin

MXit users can now make use of its services on a Mac and PC. A vast majority of its users make use of the service via mobile phones. MXit Lifestyle have released Adium and Pidgin plugins and can be downloaded. Adium and Pidgin are both multi-platform instant messenger clients. This means that you can chat using other instant messenger services while using MXit at the same time. I have been using the Adium version for the past week and am happy to say it has been working great. The Adium...

MXit Releases App for iPhone – Download

MXit Lifestyle have released an iPhone version of its popular instant messenger application. MXit had previously only been available on Java enabled phones while a PC client is also available. iPhone users who would like to download the app can click here. MXit claims to have a community of over 12 million users, about 17 million log-ons per day and over 250 million messages sent and receive per day. It was recenty revealed that MXit is teaming up with Nokia and the South African...

Symbian and Nokia Go Open Source

In June 2008 Nokia bought out its partners in Symbian (mobile operating system) for $410 million and have decided to forfeit the $300 million in licensing revenue by going open source. Nokia have started the non-profit Symbian Foundation with around 40 companies joining and plan to release Symbian for free in the first half of 2009. According to CEO Nigel Clifford they are hoping that the money that companies would normally spend on licences would now be spent to innovate on Symbian and is...

Tackling Poverty With Open Source Software – Blog Action Day

The theme for Blog Action Day is poverty and the Grameen Foundation is an organisation making use of technology to enable the poor to create a world without poverty. The Mifos Initiative program is using open source software to create a service model that increases access to technology for microfinance institutions, allowing them to reach the worlds poor. Microfinance is a program whereby poor people are granted small loans (less than $200) to start and sustain small business like the Villiage...

Fennec – Firefox Mobile For Windows

Open Source mobile web browser known under the code name "Fennec" from Mozilla will be available for Windows mobile in a couple of weeks. Mozilla developer Mark Finkle revealed that development for Windows Mobile version is heating up and and that a Linux version is in a alpha testing. You can install it on a Nokia N8x0 and assist with testing. There are no plans yet for a Blackberry version and there was work happening porting it to Symbian but there has been no indication on the...

Mippin – News for Your Mobile

A platform allowing a simple and effective way of getting your favourite content on your mobile is Mippin. Mippin brings you the latest news from big publishers to tiny blogs. What I like about Mippin is that it optimises content from websites in a format that is readable on a mobile phone. This means that the pages are not graphically intense and you will not have to download large graphical files and thus use large amounts of data making it more cost effective than visiting a website...