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Below is a list of articles of biNu coverage in the media. Click on an article to link to the original story.
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In emerging markets, creative browsers put SMS on notice
January, 2012
There’s already evidence to suggest that the smartphone revolution is taking its toll on text messaging in industrialized markets where services like instant messaging and social networks arguably do a better job of keeping people in touch, but even in emerging markets — places where even 3G data is often nonexistent — the writing may be on the wall. -
Let’s put a smartphone into a feature phone and beat Moore’s Law
December, 2011
I came across another company today that is betting to beat Moore’s law as to what devices will deliver cloud services to the masses first. That company is Binu out of Australia. The idea is to squeeze smartphone like applications that connect to the cloud through java enabled feature phones. The idea is brilliant- it helps deliver cloud service functionalities facebook, twitter and other content including e-books such as Qur’an and Holy Bible bundled via one simple app- they boast 10X the speed and 10X less data -
biNu: Offering the smartphone experience on any phone
October, 2011
Since launching in December, 2010, the Nokia Store has helped drive 16 million biNu mobile app downloads, with over 1.6 million unique visitors per month from 180 countries. The biNu site has also experienced rapid traffic increases, with over 154 million page views per month and a growth rate of over 20 per cent month on month. -
biNu registers rapid growth in Zimbabwe mobile app market
September, 2011
We came to know about biNu some several months ago when we wrote articles about eTXT. There was a lot of mention about it on our Facebook page. Readers compared it to eTXT and later Dasuba. The messaging component of biNu at least. I personally didn’t try biNu until 12 days ago, and what an impression it has left on me! -
Phoning up growth – mybusiness.com.au
February, 2011
Regardless of region, religion or language, the population of the world shares a common thirst for communication and knowledge, and that thirst is increasingly slaked by mobile phones. At least two billion mobiles already populate the planet, or one for every third person… - biNu: Wordnik on almost any mobile phone – Wordnik Blog
October, 2010
For all the Sturm und Drang about smartphones, most people still have what are called ‘feature phones.’ Features phones are simpler than smartphones, but many can still run basic apps. biNu is a company specializing in this enormous if little-heralded market, and they’ve used the Wordnik API to build a dictionary and translation app optimized for basic phones… - biNu targets ageing WAP platform for mobile internet – ComputerWorld
August, 2010
Despite exponential smartphones sales in first world countries, a small startup in Sydney has pinpointed keypad-laden mobile phones with WAP browsers as the key growth area for mobile internet…