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Apple gets into the SIM card business
by Patrick Kariuki 04 Apr '12

04 Apr '12

If you bought Apple's shares recently, you don't have to worry about it's future - Its still taking over. www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=24346

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card reader
by Emmanuel 04 Apr '12

04 Apr '12

Hi Am looking for a card ready for a Modem memory card with 50 pins I have something like this http://www.google.co.ke/imgres?um=1&hl=sw&sa=N&biw=1366&bih=667&tbm=isch&tb… -- *Emmanuel *

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Re: [Skunkworks] Advanced Programming Cs012 Assignment 2
by Gate Keeper 03 Apr '12

03 Apr '12

Skunks, Before this question was given as assignment. It was in Diploma exam for last Semester. I think the Lecturer had an answer to it.

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Programming without coding
by Kennedy Kairaria 03 Apr '12

03 Apr '12

*http://sourceforge.net/blog/podcast-programming-without-coding-technology/*

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RIAA wins big in LimeWire lawsuit
by Kevin Omondi 03 Apr '12

03 Apr '12

The War on Copyright infringement continues.....RIAA wins big in LimeWire lawsuit U.S. District court judge rules for summary judgment, finding the company behind the file-sharing program and founder Mark Gorton liable for copyright infringement. [image: Greg Sandoval] <http://www.cnet.com/profile/sandonet/> by Greg Sandoval <http://www.cnet.com/profile/sandonet/> May 12, 2010 11:09 AM PDT In a decision that could mean sweeping changes to file sharing in the United States, a federal court has found the company that operates file-sharing service LimeWire <http://download.cnet.com/8301-2007_4-10164095-12.html> liable for copyright infringement, according to court records reviewed by CNET. (Credit: Greg Sandoval/CNET) U.S. District Judge Kimba Wood, for the Southern District of New York, on Tuesday granted summary judgment in favor of the music industry's claims that Lime Group, parent of LimeWire software maker Lime Wire, and founder Mark Gorton committed copyright infringement, engaged in unfair competition, and induced copyright infringement. "The evidence demonstrates that [Lime Wire] optimized LimeWire's features to ensure that users can download digital recordings, the majority of which are protected by copyright," Wood said in her 59-page decision. "And that [Lime Wire] assisted users in committing infringement." The court decision could represent the biggest threat to online file sharing in years. According to a survey by the NPD Group, LimeWire users<http://news.cnet.com/8301-13526_3-9760235-27.html>account for 58 percent of the people who said they downloaded music from a peer-to-peer service last year. At CNET's Download.com, the LimeWire software<http://download.cnet.com/1770-20_4-0.html?query=limewire&searchtype=downloa…> has been downloaded more than 200 million times. In the last week along, the software was downloaded nearly 340,000 times. Wood's ruling could at the very least mean a shift in the downloading habits of millions. The logical next step by the Recording Industry Association of America, the trade group representing the four largest recording companies, is to get a preliminary injunction and force Lime Wire to cease LimeWire's file-sharing functionality. LimeWire responded predictably with strong opposition to the judge's decision and said it looks forward to a scheduled June 1 status conference with Wood. "LimeWire remains committed to developing innovative products and services for the end-user and to working with the entire music industry, including the major labels, to achieve this mission," it said in a statement. What may spell serious trouble for creators of music and video Web sites in the future is Wood's decision to hold Gorton personally liable. If the ruling stands, it could set a precedent that might dissuade other entrepreneurs from challenging the entertainment sector's copyrights when developing new technology. The RIAA has said it is entitled to the maximum statutory damages, which is $150,000 for each registered work that was infringed. The number of infringing works they could try to claim is likely in the millions. The RIAA first filed suit against Lime Group in August 2006 and a month later the company filed a countersuit<http://news.cnet.com/Lime-Wire%2C-squeezed%2C-files-countersuit/2100-1030_3…>, claiming the top labels engaged in unfair business practices designed to scare away Lime Wire's users.

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BES and BIS
by Gate Keeper 03 Apr '12

03 Apr '12

Skunks, Since from the start of this year safcom have changed several of their operation procedures. here are the few I have noticed:- 1. For corporates having a clean record, they were allowed to receive products on delivery of cheques.Now you must wait for at least four working days(Sometimes six) for the cheque to mature and be confirmed by their finance department. 2. Bonga points- They increased the charges for redeeming the bonga points. 3. Black berry (BES/BIS) services- To activate a BIS service was free. Currently you must have a BES service to use BIS service. BES costs Kshs. 1499 every month. 4. Mpesa charges- The PRICE RATES ..... 5.

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Cisco equipments available
by ngiri mwarokabi 03 Apr '12

03 Apr '12

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Advanced Programming Cs012 Assignment 2
by Gate Keeper 03 Apr '12

03 Apr '12

Skunks, Ass 2. Unit code: Cs012 Time: Due April 3rd 2012, 9:30A.m 1. Write a complete java program that makes use of class called employee that will be used to capture employee id, name, salary and allowance and compute gross salary. Overload the plus operator such that if employee1 and employee2 were objects of the type employee, the employee1 and employee2 will be legal and would add the basic salary allowances and gross salary of the 2 employees. Also overloaded the equality operator such that it can be used in the main method to check if 2 employees have the same numeration based on the gross salary 2. Write a function called ‘divide’ that accepts two integers and computes and returns the first integer divided by the second e.g 5/2 gives 2.5. the program should generate an error if the second integer is zero. Skunks, I got a college guy who can't understand that I do networks and sys administration not programming. Programmers . Especially Q 1.

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OT Introducing Gmail Tap
by Dennis Karigi 03 Apr '12

03 Apr '12

Is this bullshit?, BUT if you actually learned the morse code alphabet, it could be pretty handy :P http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KhZKNZO8mQ&feature=youtu.be -- Best regards, Dennis M.

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projects might die but dreams don't
by geoffrey gitagia 03 Apr '12

03 Apr '12

http://www.techspot.com/news/48013-microsofts-courier-lives-on-as-an-app-fo… Lucky is yee that has an ipad -- GG

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