http://blog.fring.com/southafrica south african blog Sun, 05 Jul 2009 14:37:22 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en For the last month, people from all over Europe have been signing up for a chance to win 10,000 EUR and a date with Swedish pop star September. But this is no easy win. Contestants must attempt to be the last remaining dancer on the floor in a 24 hour ... http://blog.fring.com/southafrica/index.php/2009/07/05/samsung-and-fring-collaborating-on-europes-most-challenging-dance-off-yet/ Breaking news from South Africa: "From Wednesday, anyone buying a pre-paid SIM card in South Africa must provide proof of address and identification, according to a new law." "The compulsory registration of all SIM cards in use, in terms of the Regulation of Interception of Communications and Provision of Communication-Related Information Act ... http://blog.fring.com/southafrica/index.php/2009/06/30/south-africans-must-link-cellphone-to-id-or-be-cut-off/ While iPhone and Nokia have been busy getting their iPhone 3.0 software and Nokia N97 ready for the shelves, we’ve been busy making sure fring supports them as they hit the market so you get the biggest bang for your buck from day one! fring now supports Apple’s latest iPhone 3.0 ... http://blog.fring.com/southafrica/index.php/2009/06/24/welcome-to-the-family-iphone-30-and-nokia-n97/ It seems that you guys really like the new 3.40 version - that’s great! Some of you have asked about the manual contact merging, so here’s a little explanation for you: How does it work? I have a friend called Tom. Now, Tom is such a good friend of mine that I’ve ... http://blog.fring.com/southafrica/index.php/2009/06/22/feature-highlight-%e2%80%93-merging-contacts-on-340/ Hello fringsters, As you remember, we’ve released 3.40 a couple of weeks ago. We got lots of comments and feedbacks from you as well as some very helpful bug reports. This is a quick post to let you all know that we’ve just released an updated version of fring 3.40 that should ... http://blog.fring.com/southafrica/index.php/2009/06/22/34019-is-out-new-build-for-symbian/ Hey guys We've just been notified that a user's video about fring, posted back in October 2008, is still very much active and still doing very well: with over 629,444 views, 1,276 ratings & 3389 text comment, it's one of fring's most successful videos to date! So without further ado a huge ... http://blog.fring.com/southafrica/index.php/2009/06/16/fringing-popular-fring-video/ The guys over at Crunchgear are reporting on this amazing hack or hoax that surfaced on the weekend.  Apparently "Some intrepid hackers have run what appears to be iPhone OS 2.x on a “multi-touch” monitor with accelerometer support." A Swedish design firm called Dreamfield has accepted responsibility for the video claiming ... http://blog.fring.com/southafrica/index.php/2009/06/15/multi-touch-iphone-os-desktop-monitor-anyone/ Some more great news for fringsters in South Africa.  It is being reported that the much anticipated Apple iPhone 3G S, will soon go on sale in South Africa.  According to the chief communications officer at Vodacom, Dot Field, "Vodacom will launch the iPhone 3G S, the fastest most powerful ... http://blog.fring.com/southafrica/index.php/2009/06/11/apple-iphone-3g-s-coming-to-south-africa-july09/ Great news fringsters, France Telecom has announced plans for yet another submarine cable to land in South Africa.  The ACE or (Africa Coast to Europe) submarine cable system will have a minimum of capacity of 1.92Tbps and will go live in 2011. The 14,000km long ACE submarine cable system which was ... http://blog.fring.com/southafrica/index.php/2009/06/11/another-submarine-cable-for-south-africa/ Attention, Attention, drum roll... we’re very excited to announce that fring version 3.4 has just gone live. As you probably already know most of us have several social circles developing in parallel, I mean who uses only own social tool these days?   At fring we’ve been listening to what users of ... http://blog.fring.com/southafrica/index.php/2009/06/03/you-ask-and-fring-delivers-fring-socialmashing/