Zain Nigeria has recently introduced a service that will enable Nigerians access Facebook, Twitter and Yahoo via SMS. This service is intended for Zain users who do not have internet data access. Users are expected to gain access to the sites by sending SMS to specified numbers. According to Deepak Srivastava, Zain Nigeria’s Chief Operating [...]

In this age of massive information overload, the need for accurate and relevant content curation is all the more crucial. The team behind Ushahidi, (the internationally acclaimed African crowd sourcing platform) has just released the beta version of Swift River, a tool that can help many around the web make sense of their real time [...]

An initiative to give everyone a chance to say what they love about Lagos has been launched using a Facebook application and offers prizes to the most liked photos. The initiative called, TaG LaGos allows participants to share interesting photos and their experiences with other people on Governor Babatunde Fashola’s fan page on Facebook. How [...]

All wordpress enthusiasts would agree that Woothemes by far is one of the best premium theme providers for wordpress. Woothemes makes over $2 million a year selling WordPress themes. Read a Mixergy interview with the South African co-founder, Adriaan Adii Pienaar below. Interview Andrew: This interview is sponsored by WuFoo, which makes embeddable forms and [...]

3 videos, all inspiring. She talks about Ushahidi, Mzalendo and blogging. You can read Ory Okolloh’s bio below this post. CNN’s David MacKenzie reports… 1. IT activist Ory Okolloh talks about the success of her Ushahidi software which has been used in several disasters across the world… 2. About how she took on Kenya’ politicians… [...]

Check out Joozi.com, an African open source development community. Though the site is relatively new, Joozi.com fills the growing need in the African software developer space for an active open source community for idea sharing and networking. Joozi.com’s description: Joozi.com is a forum where software developers come together to share ideas, articles, questions and tips [...]

(Press release) Nairobi: A wave of new online travel solutions, especially relating to E-Commerce will be unveiled for the first time at the upcoming E-Tourism East Africa Conference in Nairobi, Kenya on the 2nd and 3rd of September this year. The conference, which is being sponsored by Kenya Commercial Bank (KCB), Safaricom and the Crowne [...]

The African Union (AU) recently issued a press release  on the need to have  dotafrica domain names registered for web sites on the continent.(Read the entire Press Release below this article). According to the AU, DotAfrica is the internet name space for the continent which would be applied for in the next round of new [...]

A report from the ITU (International Telecommunication Union) has revealed that 43.9 million Nigerians have access to the internet. According to the Vanguard, Mr. Abasiama Idaresit Managing Director Wild Fusion, an internet marketing firm based in Ikoyi said: “This is the latest stats from the International Telecommunication Union, ITU and this makes Nigeria the largest [...]

(CP-Africa) – CP-Africa.com had earlier announced the Apps 4 Africa competition, a competition sponsored by Ihub, AppAfrica, SODNET and the U.S. State Department to help support the creative energies of East African apps developers. The contest comes at a critical moment given the current buzz and press the continent is getting from the impact of [...]