Nokia sponsored Open Innovation Africa Summit is currently holding in Nairobi Kenya. Thought leaders in Africa’s Mobile and technology space gather under the same room to discuss what impact open innovation will have on Africa growing technology space. We are currently following the tweets and picking highlights of the events. Ellen from the World Bank [...]
It is eye-opening to dissect further the source of Nigerian internet growth having reported 43million internet users earlier in the year. According to the newly released report of mobile web usage world wide by Pingdom; 3.18% of world wide internet traffic comes from mobile devices as Asia and Africa countries lead other developed countries. Though [...]
Samsung Galaxy Tab, Samsung’s response to Apple iPad and was launched less than 2 months ago in the US as made its way to Nigeria. A joint Press conference (Etisalat and Samsung) was held today to showcase the product to the public. With the tablet you can browse the internet, watch videos, read ebooks and [...]
Mobilitynigeria.com Nigeria’s mobile destination held its maiden edition of Smartphone show last Saturday at the University of Lagos. Those present were passionate about mobile technology and they had a wonderful time discussing it. The event was also used to announce winners of its promo; 3rd Prize – Nokia C3 – Mr. Olufemi Bankole (Lbankz on [...]
We have covered this company several times here, and did an interview with the CEO just this week. Today on its Facebook page and twitter account; they posted this message It is offical MMIT is the first company ever to do a cross-border mobile money transfer from the UK to Nigeria, from Sierre Leone to [...]
We caught up with Yomi Adegboye’s one of Nigeria’s brightest minds in mobile technology. We shared his mind with us about the industry and its future. He also took us through how mobilitynigeria.com got started. Read through and enjoy our interview with him. WTN: Let meet your sir Yomi: I am Oluyomi Adegboye, a simple, [...]
Talk about affordable but functional smartphone? Google and Huawei have made the dream come true for an average African mobile consumer. The phone is $100 no more no less! That’s about N15,000 in Nigeria and Ksh. 8000 in Kenya. The phone is Android based (codenamed IDEOS) and has been released to Kenyan market, we hope [...]
As mobile viable mobile payment system is urgently needed in the country, things are beginning to take shape. LFR is the owner of VTN platform which we had an interview with recently. In the press release below, LFR has extended the service to Nigeria. Remember also that VTN recently conduct a private place to raise [...]
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 [...]
This post is a food for thought for my fellow technologist from Nigeria. Mobile Payment on the rise, Kenya and SA where is Nigeria? Nigeria currently have more than 75million mobile phone users and no single viable mobile payment system to drive m-commerce in the country. I want to believe we have creative developers, sound [...]
