Posted by Munashe Gumbonzvanda | Posted in Nigeria | Posted on 19-02-2010
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Starcomm is an innovative Nigerian telecommunications company. According to Nigerian blogger Loy Okezie they have launched a location tracking service called Star Tracker. He stated
If you ever need to track your friends location within Nigeria via your mobile phone, Starcomms has just made it easier. Thanks to the availability of GPS-enabled phones among other factors, the LBS (location-based services) market is set to boom in Nigeria.
Posted by Munashe Gumbonzvanda | Posted in Nigeria | Posted on 16-02-2010
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Nigeria has a very active online community which is spoilt for choices when it comes to social networks. We have written about some Nigerian social networks before, most notably Naijapals.
A few others have recently popped up, the full list of the social networks in Nigeria now include Naijaborn, Onlinenigeria, Naijamate, Nigeriansocialnetwork, Nanaija, Nigerialounge and Youbenigerian.
Posted by Munashe Gumbonzvanda | Posted in Nigeria, South Africa | Posted on 02-11-2009
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The Grid
The Grid, the mobile social network from South Africa is the first company I personally know of, to attempt to enter the Nigerian web market.
The Grid version launched in Nigeria, has a few features missing from it. Like the location based information
. However The Grid made up for this lapse by rolling out a few more features for fans of the service. The changes include stuff like twitter integration, change to their interface.