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Kenyan developer wins Vodafone mobile app competition

A screen shot during the Safaricom-Vodafone AppStar launch at the Michael Joseph center on September 6, 2012. FILE

A Kenyan IT programmer on Wednesday evening won the top prize in a mobile applications development challenge organised by Vodafone and Safaricom.

Bernard Mukangu beat 2,200 applicants from Africa, Asia and Europe with his Automs.gs application that allows for automatic sending of text messages to schedule meetings and raises an alert on the set gathering.

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