Archive | Innovation

28 July 2010 0 Comments

Interview with Emmanuel Okoegwale – Organizer MobiFest2010

Emmanuel is the Principal Consultant at MobileMoneyAfrica and a leading mobile commerce on the Africa space. We asked couple of questions regarding the upcoming event MobiFest2010 of which we are partner; these question can shed light on some of the questions you might want to ask, go through and endeavor to ask more in the [...]

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27 July 2010 14 Comments

Interview with Daniel Emeka ‘Da-vinci’ – Creative Genius

In our continue effort to showcase young Nigerians doing great stuff, we keep discovering more talents than we’d expected. We got in touch with this young, energetic and creative guy, Daniel Emeka, popularly called “Da vinci”.  He’s a digital art expert, with message-drive illustrations… I must emphasize, this guy is world class. Let’s go on [...]

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05 July 2010 0 Comments

Yrn.me; URL shortening site improves interface, add new features

The Nigerian url shortening site, launched in February this year and currently making waves. The new features, was announced on Sunday morning by the founder Ahmad Mukoshy. What are the new features? User accounts, Custom url for users, Mini statistic report, Home page display of top links Remove link to statistic report for any link. [...]

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11 June 2010 0 Comments

Techcrunch.com down on 5th anniversary courtesy of wordpress.com

We are already catching the fever of the 5th anniversary of techcrunch.com and I’ve been glued to the site for the past 20hours. Suddenly the site went down! I have been refreshing for minutes now, I guess the error is from WordPress.com as the error message reads “WordPress.com will be back in a minute!”. I’m [...]

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26 March 2010 8 Comments

Swift Network upgrades to 4G Technology

Swift Network is a top broadband internet service provider in Nigeria with extremely fast connection. About a year ago, it launched  hotspot internet service in various restaurant in Lagos and has since continued to expand it’s network. One of the main headache using their old platform is that every installation of their network must be done by [...]

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04 March 2010 1 Comment

Innovation Hub lands in Kenya

If there is a country on African soil that has shown consistent commitment towards technology development in recent time, I sure will choose Kenya! Kenya is home to M-Pesa and some other innovative technologies. Innovation hub or simply iHub is an open environment for techies to express themselves, launch startups and take on the world! [...]

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