January 2012 – a new year bringing millions of new biNu users and very strong growth in sessions and page views! Monthly page views saw an 11-fold increase over the year, from 29m to 341m. Monthly user sessions grew from 1.3m a year ago to 15.7m, and unique monthly users rocketed from 370k last year [...]
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Facebook Messenger (Chat) now on biNu
Posted by tim.wightman, February 4th, 2012
With the popularity of instant messaging exploding across the mobile world, especially in emerging markets, we are pleased to be able to offer unlimited access to Facebook Messenger on our platform. The Messaging interface can be accessed via the main Facebook app or directly from the biNu home screen. We intend to add other messaging [...]
biNu Exceeds 2 Million Downloads per Month on GetJar
Posted by tim.wightman, December 1st, 2011
Sydney, Australia (PRWEB) November 30, 2011 From zero to 15 million downloads in less than a year on GetJar, biNu exceeds all growth expectations. biNu, suppliers of software that dramatically improves the usability, performance and social connectivity of mass-market feature phones, today announced they had surpassed two million downloads per month on GetJar the world’s [...]
Gour Lentell Video Interview from AfricaCom 2011 in South Africa
Posted by mark.shoebridge, November 25th, 2011
Earlier this month Gour and I attended AfricaComm in Cape Town, South Africa. AfricaCom is designed to be all things mobile in Africa. And it was! The conference was a mass of people from all over Africa. There were presentations from telecom companies, local industry leaders, and global software companies like Google and Facebook. [...]
Growing knowledge
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 [...]
biNu books – Hundreds of books now available on your mobile phone via Project Gutenburg
Posted by mark.shoebridge, October 13th, 2011
We have released our first version of biNu books for mobile phone users. Today over 300 books are available via Project Gutenburg, but in the near future the entire library will be available and all for free. Project Gutenburg http://www.gutenbergnews.org was conceived by Michael Hart who recently passed away. Hart’s vision was to make “everything available [...]
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 [...]
biNu’s new Smart look for non-Smart phones
Posted by tim.wightman, October 7th, 2011
biNu has always had a large catalog of apps that are accessible from every installed app – but for some of our users it hasn’t been obvious how to find them. biNu v3.2.1 changes all that with a new icon-based home screen that will be familiar to smart phone users. Not only does this provide [...]
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 [...]
Translate your messages! आसान
Posted by tim.wightman, August 26th, 2011
Upgrades to the biNu Messenger app and Google Translate mean that you can now translate messages in your inbox to any language. If you wish to translate an outgoing message, enter your text in the Google Translate app, choose translation language and then use the ‘Send’ option in the menu. This will take you to [...]
Rebranding: biNu Messenger
Posted by tim.wightman, August 10th, 2011
Today we renamed our messaging product to “biNu Messenger”, to reflect the broader nature of communication modes we now support. What started out as a purely SMS product, is now a truly unified messaging platform, allowing users in 208 countries to send messages via SMS, chat (biNu to biNu) or email on almost any mobile [...]
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 [...]
Introducing biNu Credits
Posted by tim.wightman, August 8th, 2011
From today, biNu users can buy Credits from our new website at https://credits.binu.com. This means that registered biNu Messenger users can purchase additional credits to send more SMS in addition to their free daily quota. The binu Credits system also allows users to transfer credits to other users, from within the biNu application. This opens [...]
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