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sms pull
by I. Ati 07 Aug '09

07 Aug '09

* *** I have configured my kannel and I actually send messages via kannel hence the smsc group conf is in order so how can I get kannel to receive messages from the smsc, what options do I have?

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Twitter went down coz of DOS attack
by mike oketch 07 Aug '09

07 Aug '09

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/technology/basheerakhan/100002811/twitter-unde…

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Twitter Anti-Corruption Authority
by David Kiania | Asentric Consulting Ltd 07 Aug '09

07 Aug '09

In 20 years there has not been a single successful corruption case tried in Kenya, with a conviction. The so called '4th Estate' is itself soaked in corruption, stories and features are done on the basis of bribes and dishing out of favours. Truth be told we have no help in the current set of institutions and unless we look at new means and tools we'll be discussing corruption and depleted resources, with no excuse why we did nothing. Hilary Clinton did make a very interesting remark, young people (the real stakeholders of the future) must use tools like twitter to report, and highlight corruption in real-time. Whereas am not big in tweets, can we harness 'ushahidi-like' tools to deal with graft? Initially it has to be name and shame but in the longterm it'll have to be actionable. I will not claim to have the solution but can we mash-up ideas and see what we can do about it. I am so tired of talk-shows and I have participated in them and tele is full of them. Can we DO something tangible? What say you? Kiania -- [Asentric Consulting Ltd] If a man has in himself the soul of a slave will he not become one no matter what his birth .... -Richest Man in Babylon

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Router VS *NIX PC
by Joe Murithi Njeru 07 Aug '09

07 Aug '09

Hello Guys n Gals, Question: Have a small network of 5 people. Need to get a router for 2 Internet links, VPN, Firewall, IPS, Content & Application Filtering. Which is a better solution.. purchase a CISCO router or implement a *NIX solution on an old server? -- Regards, Joe Linux User: #361092 SIP: joe.njeru(a)ekiga.net

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WenyeBiashara.biz
by Andrew Kibe 07 Aug '09

07 Aug '09

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WenyeBiashara.biz
by Andrew Kibe 07 Aug '09

07 Aug '09

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Zap to other networks
by Michuki Mwangi 07 Aug '09

07 Aug '09

Hi everyone, I got a txt message from Zain that i can now send money from Zap to other networks - anyone with details about the Other networks or does this mean MPESA? regards, Michuki.

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Yahoo's Missed Opportunity: The Social Web
by saidimu 07 Aug '09

07 Aug '09

<> We know from the history of technology that social functions always top mechanical ones. Alexander Graham Bell expected his phone to be used to broadcast symphonies; remember, the phone came before the radio. Yet simple "talking" won the day. On cell phones, it's still talking and text messages that are the bulk of all revenues. With computers, the killer application has always been email — which was vibrant long before spreadsheets. In large part, computing is social computing, and everything else hangs off the social aspect. <> Sent to you by saidimu via Google Reader: Yahoo's Missed Opportunity: The Social Web via HarvardBusiness.org by John Sviokla on 8/6/09 As far as I can tell, Yahoo did a lease/sale deal with Microsoft, thereby exiting the growing online search business to focus on the fragmented, super-competitive, online media business. Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz and her advisors said they could not marshal the capital to fight against the billions in R&D that Microsoft and Google were spending and planning to spend on search. Yahoo's mistake is that they want to fight the last war — traditional search and traditional "portal" control. What the Yahoo executives missed is that the hottest part of the internet — the social web — takes tiny amounts of capital and is garnering a lion's share of the incremental growth in attention. Therefore, it can be hugely beneficial to any advertising-driven company — like Yahoo. As my venture capital friends once lamented to me, it took practically no capital to launch Linked-In, Twitter, and even the early days of Facebook. I find the most interesting way to think about the social web comes from my friend, and Diamond Fellow, David Reed of the MIT Media Lab. He says we now have "the third cloud." The first cloud was connection to the internet; the second cloud was resources like Yahoo and Google. The third cloud is social connection. Twitter, Linked-In, and Facebook are all examples of services that comprise the social cloud. We know from the history of technology that social functions always top mechanical ones. Alexander Graham Bell expected his phone to be used to broadcast symphonies; remember, the phone came before the radio. Yet simple "talking" won the day. On cell phones, it's still talking and text messages that are the bulk of all revenues. With computers, the killer application has always been email — which was vibrant long before spreadsheets. In large part, computing is social computing, and everything else hangs off the social aspect. So I think it's a shame that Yahoo decided to sell out at the very time when Google and Microsoft are both vulnerable to a company that can harness the social web to garner even more eyeballs and involvement. How could Yahoo have done it without spending billions? They could have gone back to their roots. Many years ago when I was teaching at Harvard Business School, Tim Brady was a student of mine and he did the early marketing plan for Yahoo as part of our course on "Managing in the Marketspace" — back in the spring of 1994. Tim had been a Stanford roommate of the two Yahoo founders, Filo and Yang. Yahoo was created as the best aggregator of useful content. Today, there is a need for some high-traffic firm to act as a sophisticated aggregator of social content. One outstanding example of this type of aggregator is a little firm called Xobni. Xobni is a simple add-in to your Microsoft Outlook, which does many things including linking to people's Linked-In and Facebook profiles — all from within Outlook. This is a new-fangled version of exactly what Yahoo did at the birth of the Web, but this time it's about social information and it links intimately with the way people already work. I don't know the statistics, but my bet is that corporate users spend more time with Outlook than with any other application — including Facebook. Even if Yahoo could not do the Xobni deal, it would not take billions to create a competitor. Every company can benefit from aggregating social information about their target market or their product/service category. For instance, my colleague Chris Curran started the CIO Dashboard, in which he chronicles all the CIOs who use Twitter, and offers his own sage advice on CIO issues. He now has 145 CIOs on the dashboard across 29 industries and has garnered over 1,200 followers in less than a month. Any company can do this if they are thoughtful about who they want to talk to and the natural, emergent social cloud that already exists. Remember, the social trumps all — so just follow the people. Things you can do from here: - Subscribe to HarvardBusiness.org using Google Reader - Get started using Google Reader to easily keep up with all your favorite sites

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HP Touchsmart Desktop PC's AVAILABLE
by Alvin Jason Ochieng 07 Aug '09

07 Aug '09

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Video: Father Kizito Exploiting a Kenyan Orphan
by mike oketch 06 Aug '09

06 Aug '09

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4tlb9j3wjA

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