The Mappiness project aims to study the correlation between people's location and their level of happiness.
The BlackBerry maker will cooperate with authorities, in accordance with its global standard for lawful access, it says.
The niche mobile offering now provides both prepaid and contract data packages, as well as new voice packages.
The company uses income earned from MTN dividends to pay down debt.
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Online payments provider, Boku has partnered with Telefonica to link in-app payments to mobile operator bills.
The move will allow users to consolidate their corporate and personal settings and applications into a single device.
The company has deployed BulkSMS.com's eAPI to SMS-enable its InSite software.
Although the company started South African operations in 2010, it opened its regional offices last month.
Government will monitor BlackBerry Messenger communications due to high levels of 'criminality'.
Dietlof Mare wants to change roles after almost five years running the operation.
The company has so far signed 20 large enterprise clients for its business platforms delivered through the cloud.
The platform supports all three major mobile access modes - SMS, mobile browser and downloadable apps.