Nokia and Safaricom yesterday announced a partnership to offer a new messaging service aimed helping users interact with each other through email, chat and messaging on the newly launched Nokia C3 handset as well as a range of other Nokia devices. Dubbed Nokia Messaging Service (NMS), the new messaging service

The first time I encountered or even heard of MXit was last year in October 2009 at the Mobile Web Africa Conference in Johannesburg, South Africa. A presentation was being given by the MXit CEO Herman Heunis that plotted the rise and rise of the mobile social networking community. At

I totally stumbled on it. I didn’t even know about it until a few minutes ago. I saw a Google Ad on some random web site which brought it to my attention. I’m really grinning! Yes, finally, after getting battered on a good number of blogs and online forums for