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It seems Kenya’s biggest mobile service operator is set to experience a major leadership change as Michael Joseph who is the reigning CEO of the corporate giant is set to step down later this year. Mr. Joseph has been CEO for the last 10 years, a decade which has seen major changes in Kenya’s mobile [...]

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. We at Afrinnovator.com host our videos on Zoopy as part of our ‘Use African, Grow African’ policy (of sorts). As much as possible [...]

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 and Windows Mobile development teams. Microsoft said Wednesday it has stopped work on the Kin [...]

Nokia Research Center, Africa, is based in Nairobi and focuses on understanding theunique needs of the African mobile phone user and creating concepts and visions tofulfill these needs. Key in its focus areas is user experience and new user interfaces for joyful and intuitive mobile interactions. NRC, Africa is currently seeking to recruit 2 young [...]

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. Getting Started with SwiftRiver – Batuque from Ushahidi on Vimeo. Jon Gosier is the team [...]

We’ve uploaded our photos from Barcamp Nairobi that was held this past Saturday and Sunday. Apparently there were about 600 attendees on Saturday alone and nearly 250 on Sunday, making it probably the biggest Barcamp ever in Africa and maybe even one of the largest in Africa. A big congratulations to the team that set [...]

We are at Barcamp/Wherecamp Nairobi live blogging the action as it happens. Enjoy: BarCamp Nairobi / WhereCamp Nairobi

Erik Hersman (@whiteafrican) had the opportunity to give a presentation to Nokia execs about mobile innovation in Africa and boy did he not hold back on anything. The presentation was straight to the point, hard hitting, daring and challenging at the list. The presentation is embedded here below. Some of the points he made: First, [...]

Last weekend the iHub hosted the Random Hacks of Kindness hackathon, as part of a global event that saw people from different cities around the world gathering to hack on projects aimed at some kind of social good. Read summaries from day 1 and day 2 on the ihub blog. Erik (@whiteafrican) captured some of [...]

According to a post on IT News Africa, Zain Kenya – the second leading mobile service provider in Kenya after Safaricom – is finally set to roll out a 3G service: Kenyan mobile operator Zain plans to launch a 3G service in July this year reports the Economic Times. Zain has been pushing for lower [...]