Own up, if — high up among your cellphone’s utilities — you treasure its status as a fashion accessory.

Developers, NGOs and companies are waking up to the potential of leveraging their service, idea, project or survey through cellphones.

It was not 20 minutes after a bomb blast in Chad and the footage was already being aired on al-Jazeera.

The rude honk of vuvuzelas rang through the halls of the Wanderers Club in Johannesburg as the MobileActive08 conference got under way on Monday.