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Blackberry 10 launch and the future of Blackberry

Blackberry 10 launch and the future of Blackberry

The 30th of January was a big day for the mobile industry. It was the day that Blackberry came out with their new Blackberry 10 platform. This day was widely anticipated by many. Blackberry went all out and produced an amazing event that was broad-casted live in JHB, London, Paris, Dubai, Toronto, and NY via satellite. RIM CEO Thorsten Heins presented the new Blackberry 10 phones to the world and I can only compare Read More

Photo shoot with Trellidor for the new Windows 8 Shout SA app

Photo shoot with Trellidor for the new Windows 8 Shout SA app

I would like to share with you some great and exciting news. On the 27th of November I was part of a promotional shoot for the Windows 8 Shout SA application that Cytrus developed. Some background first, every one in SA knows the Shout brand, which is headed by Danny K and Kabelo. Cytrus first got involved with Shout over a year ago and developed the Android application, which was sponsored by Samsung. Read More

Cytrus attends Softline Pastel “Mobility Business Breakfast with Arthur Goldstuck”

Cytrus attends Softline Pastel “Mobility Business Breakfast with Arthur Goldstuck”

Yesterday I attended the Softline Pastel "Mobility Business Breakfast with Arthur Goldstuck" event. The event started at 7:00am with a breakfast and drinks. At 8:00am we all moved into the conference room for the presentations. Keynote speakers included Steven Cohen, Arthur Goldstuck and Paulo Ferrero. Pastel announced to media and selected guests about the official launch of new services they are now offering their clients. Steven Cohen one of the three original Read More

Cytrus speak at the Tech Demo Africa event

Cytrus speak at the Tech Demo Africa event

Cytrus was recently asked to speak about one of our projects at the Tech Demo Africa event in conjunction with Mobile Monday. The event was held at the Radison Blue in Johannesburg on 17 April 2012. Always interested to showcase our work we jumped at the opportunity - the only problem... which of our many exciting projects should we showcase? We decided to present a project that was relevant to Read More

Cytrus attends the SHOUT 2012 launch

Cytrus attends the SHOUT 2012 launch

Gidon and I had the privilege of attending the SHOUT launch yesterday held at Montecasino to a packed audience that included a number of celebrities.  Gavin Koppel, Chairman of the SHOUT foundation, Danny K and Kabelo had some inspiring words to say about taking up the fight against crime in our country.  George Ferreira, COO and Vice-President of Samsung South Africa presented the launch of the SHOUT mobile application.  The Read More

Car Magazine reveals beta CARmag Android application developed by Cytrus

Car Magazine reveals beta CARmag Android application developed by Cytrus

Last night Cytrus had the privilege of attending the beta launch of the Ramsay Media Car Magazine Mobile Application in association with Samsung Mobile and developed by Cytrus Technology. All the main folks were there, some words were spoken and good times were had by all. The CARmagapp is a state-of-the-art Android application for fans of everything motorcar related and we believe it is going to be a game changer in Read More

Cytrus Announces SA Ubuntu Foundation Sponsorship

Cytrus Announces SA Ubuntu Foundation Sponsorship

Last Friday I had the pleasure of attending the SA Ubuntu Foundation’s latest networking breakfast at the Hilton Hotel in Cape Town, where I had the opportunity to announce the sponsorship of the SA Ubuntu Foundation’s new website. The site was built and designed by our talented team and released at the end of May, and the SA Ubuntu Foundation is already seeing the value. The SA Ubuntu Foundation was established by Read More

Silicon Cape Networking Event #4 – Sponsored by Cell C

Silicon Cape Networking Event #4 – Sponsored by Cell C

I recently attended the latest Silicon Cape networking event, the community-driven initiative that aims to establish Cape Town as the centre for start-ups in Africa. It was the fourth event of its kind, this time sponsored by Cell C and held at La Med in Camps Bay. The sponsorship meant some great freebies for attendees: the first few hundred guests all received a Cell C SIM card and a POKEN – a small Read More

Cytrus impresses at the E-Tourism Africa Summit 2010

Cytrus impresses at the E-Tourism Africa Summit 2010

The third annual E-Tourism Africa Summit is currently underway at the Cape Town International Convention Centre, and this year, Cytrus was fortunate enough to be given a stand at the prestigious online travel expo. Moreover, we were granted the opportunity to speak at the event, alongside renowned online travel experts such as Trip Advisor, Expedia and WAYN.com. The aim of the event, now in its third year, is to bring together Read More