Afroes, a creator of uniquely African mobile applications and tools for social development agencies and corporate enterprises keen to spread educational and branded messages across the continent, recently announced that they have decided to use this week’s Mobile Web East Africa 2013 Conference, organised by UK based company All Amber, as a platform for the official Nairobi launch of a mobile phone game designed in conjunction with the Tukuke Initiative for Peace, Haki: Chaguo Ni Lako (which in English translates to Justice: The Choice is Yours), to inspire commitment to peace and tolerance among young Kenyans.

The Nairobi Launch press conference will held on Thursday 21st February at 3PM at the Southern Sun Mayfair. Read more »

Are you a HTML code-guru? Here is a chance to win a great deal of money and possibly a trip to San Francisco to meet some of the world’s greatest game developers.

The New Year brings with it some good tidings in the name of a Pokki developer contest.

A participant stands a chance to win a cool 30 thousand US Dollars and an all expenses paid trip to the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco next in 2012.

All you have to do is build a new game in HTML5 and other Web technologies (but not using any Flash) and have it approved at the Pokki store before the end of the day February 20, 2012. Games will be judged by a panel of game development managers on gameplay, appeal, polish and overall graphics and sound.

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According to the Google Developer Team, in the past year alone, Google guys have met with over 10,000 developers and techies across Sub Saharan Africa and are continually impressed by the ingenuity and enthusiasm of this community in solving real problems with technology.

From applications that crowd-source traffic info to mobile registration of local businesses, handheld devices have taken center stage for consumers and developers in Africa. With a number of countries in the region hovering around 80-90% mobile penetration, mobile is the screen size for the web and the communication experience.

And now that mass is all talking about Google and the Android Development.

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Japanese giant Sony has appointed Kazuo Hirai, the head of its PlayStation game business, to a new key position in a move that may anoint him as a successor to Chief Executive Howard Stringer.

Hirai will run a group that merges Sony’s Networked Products and Services division, responsible for PlayStation games and VAIO computers, with the firm’s core electronics such as TV, home video, home audio and digital imaging.

Hirai is a longtime executive with the firm who played a major role in developing Sony‘s PlayStation business in the 1990′s and from April 1 will become Executive Deputy President.

Howard Stringer in a statement said he was staying on as CEO for the foreseeable future “to lead the company through the next state in its transformation”. Read more »