fringsters listen up

This is your opportunity to shine and show us just how much you love football, your mobile phone and fring. In exchange we will give 3 fringsters shiny new Nokia N97 mini handsets courtesy of our freinds over at Nokia and Ovi Store. *

To this affect we have just lauched the fring football contest on our facebook. We now invite you to upload your fring-a-fied football pictures to our wall and get your friends to “like” them. The picture with the most “likes” wins.

We have made it easier for those who are not at the soccer to enter using cut and paste graphics as per the sample below. However we encourage those of you lucky enough to be at the football to us your imagination, creativity and send us some way cool fring-a-fied football images.

As they say in the movies, may the best fring-a-fied picture win

1. Download this image

2. Using some nifty computer software paste the hardhat above over your other image. As per the sample below. If you havn’t got such software get your friends to help you.

3. Upload your fring-a-fied picture to this facebook wall.

4. Get your friends, family and co-workers to upload their own pics and “like” your pictures.

5. To get extra coverage and more brownie points link to them from your facebook, twitter and other social spaces.

6. Thats it. Now sit back and watch as the “likes” roll in and you may just be the next winner.

To see what others are uploading click here. We look forward to seeing all your fring-a-fied images soon.

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As we get closer to the quarter finals of the Fifa World Cup Soccer and things start to heat up here in South Africa, We thought it good to remind everyone that fring is the only low cost mobile way to send home some exclusive soccer video action to friends and family.

So if you are in South Africa for the 2010 World Cup Soccer, why not share the love by live streaming your soccer experiance to those back home who are not as lucky to be at the game.

Millions of fringsters world wide are now daily video streaming to friends and family, in fact this is one of our most popular features. So if you have not yet tried fringVIDEO give it a try today.

What are you waiting for live stream your South African soccer experiance to a friends of family today!

fringsters listen up:

The online/broadcast hybrid reality series Around The World For Free is back, bigger and better than ever before.

In 2007 we closely followed Alex Boylan, winner of The Amazing Race 2, as he traveled around the world without any money. Alex was followed by one cameraman Zsolt Luka who filmed, edited and produced the entire show from the road. Alex relied entirely on local guides and inhabitants for basic needs. His trip Around The World For Free took him through 16 Countries over 159 Days and he clocked more than 45000 Miles.

Here are a few extracts from season 1 of the show featuring your local fring blogger and two other well known South African Bloggers, CharlVN and Jayx.

1. Season 1: Day 77
2. Season 1: Day 78

This year thanks to CBS, the show is back with a new host, Amazing Race 16 and Big Brother 11 star Jeff Schroeder. The plan? Travel around the world in 100 days, with nothing more than a backpack and help from the online community.

So what are you waiting for, tune in to CBS and get ready for season2. Remember you control the show, so get involved, talk, chat and interact with the guys as they travel Around The World For Free.

fringsters listen up! Nokia today unveiled a unique new product for emerging markets. The bicycle cellphone charger which will offer “free and environmentally friendly electricity” to mobile device users, is a much needed addition to the Nokia line of products.

The low cost device which will retail for R160.00 gets power via a dynamo which uses the motion of the bicycle wheel to generate electricity. The device is aimed at developing markets and countries where people have limited access to basic utilities.

“The package, which will be released towards the end of this year, will include a handlebar mount, dynamo and a 2 mm charger jack.” There is currently no confirmation on where or when it will be available locally but be assured we will keep you posted.

This truly is a great new device from Nokia and we beleive it will improve the lives of millions in Africa.

The hard working boys and girls over at Skyrove.com are making waves again. This time they plan to take on the industry gaints by participating in the first ever auction for national radio frequency in the 2,6GHz band.

The Skyrove business model is simple and allows anyone to set up a Wi-Fi hotspot and earn an income by sharing or selling Internet access to others. If Henk Kleynhans CEO of Skyrove uses the same model as Skyrove and applies it to the 2,6GHz band, it’s going to be huge. This would in theory allow the company to scale rapidly via third party clients who could then resell 4G wireless broadband in their local area under license from Skyrove. The scaling potential is huge and me thinks the larger mobile networks in South Africa are going to sit up straight or miss out.

Most of the smartphones these days have WiFi and this new 4G network linked into the Skyrove model could create a network of WiFi hotspots so large that you could move between networks almost seamlessly. Thats the theory and me thinks only time will tell how Henk’s model really works. It’s going to be very interesting to see how the larger players in the indusrty respond to this.

I really hope Henk and his team win the license. Just participating in this auction is going to cost Skyrove R70000 (non refundable). They will also need to put down a refundable deposit of R750000 just to be able to bid. This is no small auction and taking on the industry gaints is no small task. Henk and his team obviously have fringing balls of steel and financial backing to boot, because this auction is going to easily clock a few hundred million. Maybe we should be wishing the industry gaints luck, because the new kid on the block is going to kick your butt

That being said we wish the Skyrove team well with their bid, we are rooting for you!