Just over two months ago I had occasion to visit Nairobi, Kenya for conference event. On the way there from Sydney, I thought how cool would it be to randomly meet a biNu user in Kenya and have the chance to hear their biNu story first hand. Realising it would be unlikely at an industry [...]
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Posted by gour.lentell, October 17th, 2011
This wonderful ad speaks to the biNu in me..
The Steve Jobs of Zimbabwe!
Posted by gour.lentell, October 17th, 2011
Thank you biNu user Munyaradzi in Zimbabwe for sending this feedback email a couple of days ago! “Hie i just want to thank with everywork u are doing as a Zimbabwean i truly proud and inspired to have someone like u who binu co founder u are indeed our own Steve Jobs, keep own improving [...]
Nokia Publisher Successes – biNu: Offering the smartphone experience on any phone
Posted by gour.lentell, October 11th, 2011
Nokia published a success story on biNu last week: “Analysts at Gartner predict that by 2015, more people will access the Internet via feature phones rather than from their personal computers. So why are internet users still relying on the slow, clumsy and expensive browser-based connection of their feature phone to access all their favorite [...]
Amazon Silk and cloud browsers
Posted by gour.lentell, September 30th, 2011
In conjunction with the new Kindle Fire tablet announced yesterday, Amazon also introduced the new Amazon Silk browser. It employs a “split browser” architecture that accelerates the power of the mobile device hardware by using the computing speed and power of the Amazon Web Services Cloud, resulting in a faster web browsing experience. The video [...]
500,000
Posted by gour.lentell, September 21st, 2011
Since launching biNu account registration along with the biNu Messenger service last April, we’ve just passed 500,000 registered account profiles. Last month we had 1.6 million unique users accessing biNu from pretty much every country in the world. The biNu journey is just beginning…
Everything for everyone
Posted by gour.lentell, September 15th, 2011
Sadly Michael S. Hart, the founder and driving force behind Project Gutenberg, died recently. Here’s a great article, The Inventor of the Digital Age, about his life and driving passion to make “everything available to everyone”. We’ve been thinking about Project Gutenberg for some time at biNu but never had the time to really get [...]
Pondering The Blackberry Puzzle
Posted by gour.lentell, August 8th, 2011
Tomi Ahonen wrote an interesting article on his blog pondering the sometime confusion surrounding Blackberry and the up and down fortunes of Blackberry maker RIM. In recent years there have been sudden surges in sales of of Blackberry phones in traditionally lower-key markets for RIM such as South Africa, Indonesia and Venezuela driven largely by [...]
Gour
Posted by gour.lentell, July 13th, 2011
Dave and I co-founded biNu in September 2008 excited about the idea of bringing ultra-fast delivery of web services to ALL mobile phones, not just expensive smart phones. I grew up in Zimbabwe and and have lived in the UK and now Sydney for 20 years. I am so happy and privileged to have experienced [...]
90% of the world does not have a smart phone
Posted by gour.lentell, June 22nd, 2011
At the Nokia Connection 2011 event yesterday in Singapore, Stephen Elop, President and CEO of Nokia, made some interesting comments regarding their Connecting the Next Billion strategy which echo well with biNu’s focus on the mobile mass market. You can watch the video of Stephen and Nokia’s presentation here. “…the reality is that 90% of [...]
“binu gonna b more famous thn google”
Posted by gour.lentell, June 10th, 2011
Nice post on the biNu Facebook page from Saroj Bhatta!
Thanks Saroj :-)
Science, life and biNu
Posted by gour.lentell, May 18th, 2011
Feedback from a biNu mobile user in Bangladesh received a few hours ago:
“Without science,we can’t think our life,like that without binu i can’t think.i love it..”
Here’s what biNu users have to say…
Posted by gour.lentell, May 2nd, 2011
Forget about what we say, here’s a selection of the feedback (word-for-word) we’ve received from biNu mobile users during the past month, all typed in on their mobile phones: Hey binu is Great great great. Because in my hole life i can’t see very good than binu. I want to binu will live infinity time [...]
Amazon EC2 goes down – biNu service outage
Posted by gour.lentell, April 22nd, 2011
biNu’s mobile internet services have been affected by a major outage at Amazon Web Services. Whilst Amazon are working on resolving their problems, we are also working to move biNu’s services to another Amazon data center. We hope to be up and running again as soon as possible.
biNu users growing fast!
Posted by gour.lentell, April 8th, 2011
In December last year we had 319,000 unique users accessing biNu services from their mobile phones. Our month-on-month growth rate since then has been 18% Dec to Jan, 66% Jan to Feb and 72% Feb to Mar! In March we had just over 1m unique users accessing biNu on their mobiles in over 180 countries, [...]
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