Zoopy's New iPhone App

Zoopy is a video and image sharing site much like YouTube that was born in South Africa. Today, Zoopy has announced the availability of it’s iPhone App available for download from iTunes.

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Microsoft Discontinues Kin Phone – Why Not Offer it to Developing Countries?

Back in May Microsoft launched a new mobile device that struck somewhere in between a feature phone and a Smartphone. Yesterday, barely a month after the Kin launch, Microsoft pulled the plug on Kin saying it was integrating it’s Kin … Read More

GMail Now Available in Swahili and Amharic

You can now enjoy your GMail on a Swahili or Amharic localized interface. Simply go to the language settings and switch to the new language. Kudos to Google for the localization efforts!

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[VIDEO] Africa Technology Development

A short video on technology as a force for change and development in Africa…

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Idea Bounty launches Financial Times UK Creative Competition

London, June 23, 2010 – Today, Idea Bounty, a community site that allows brands to tap the collective intelligence of creatives all over the world, goes live with a brief from publishing  giant Financial Times (UK). While “crowdsourcing” advertising ideas … Read More

KTN Tech Junkie: Kenya's First Prime Time Tech Show

It is long overdue but finally Kenya will get a local home grown prime time tech show on national broadcaster KTN. This of course has many tech people really psyched up. Quoting one of the people involved in the making … Read More

[Guest Post] The Leapfrog Effect: The Pros and Cons of Legacy

[Guest blog post: Rob Salkowitz is author of Young World Rising: How Youth, Technology and Entrepreneurship are Changing the World from the Bottom Up (John Wiley & Sons, 2010). He lives and works in Seattle. Follow him on Twitter @robsalk]

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"Let's Play" – Microsoft Tells SA as Xbox Live Comes to SA

Google has been giving South Africa some serious attention of late with the recent launch of Google Street View. Microsoft doesn’t seem to want to be left behind and has (according to the Bandwidth Blog) announced plans to officially launch … Read More

SwiftRiver 101 at iHub

iHub seems to be carrying on a lot of activity of late. Just days following the biggest and baddest Barcamp in Africa yet, the iHub hosted the SwiftRiver team for a day of introducing the community to the SwiftRiver initiative.

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Hack: How To Get Safaricom 3G On Your IPad

Juliana Rotich (@Afromusing) who is one of the founders of Ushahidi has an interesting piece on how to get Safaricom’s 3G service on your iPad (if you happen to have one in Kenya).

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