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1. Re: Mobile Apps query.. (Rad!)
2. Mobile Apps Query (Paul Mathu)
3. Re: Mobile Apps query.. (Paul Mathu)
4. Mobile Apps query (Mbugua Njihia)
5. Re: the new iphone (ndungu stephen)
6. Re: the new iphone (Phares Kariuki)
7. Thought this might be of interest (Solomon Mburu)
8. Re: Mobile Apps query (Paul Mathu)
9. Re: the new iphone (ndungu stephen)
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Message: 1
Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 12:02:18 +0300
From: "Rad!" <conradakunga@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [Skunkworks] Mobile Apps query..
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What platform? J2ME? Windows Mobile?
On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 11:58 AM, Paul Mathu <mails.mathu@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Hi
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> Is there a way that a mobile application can be auto installed on
> downloading thereby restricting users from copying the application from one
> device to another?
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> Mathu
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Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 12:02:56 +0300
From: Paul Mathu <mails.mathu@gmail.com>
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Subject: [Skunkworks] Mobile Apps Query
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Hi
Is there a way that a mobile application can be auto installed on
downloading thereby restricting users from copying the application from one
device to another?
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Regards
Mathu
http://sojjar.blogspot.com
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Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 12:04:31 +0300
From: Paul Mathu <mails.mathu@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [Skunkworks] Mobile Apps query..
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J2ME
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Mathu
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Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 12:18:02 +0300
From: "Mbugua Njihia" <mbugua@symbiotic.co.ke>
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Subject: [Skunkworks] Mobile Apps query
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Yes there is. to install remotely have you app in the .jad format, for
download and then install .jar format
Check out s.zunguka.com
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Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 12:44:11 +0300
From: ndungu stephen <ndungustephen@gmail.com>
To: Skunkworks forum <skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke>
Subject: Re: [Skunkworks] the new iphone
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@Billy and Phillip
Very true:
All this goes back to the fact that the country was split into two during
the 80s as to who is cooler and who is better for business....
Steve jobs/Apple provided the cooler uses for machines... while Bill
Gates/Microsoft was seen as the tasteless corporate kind of
niche.[California hippies vs Wallstreet]
Of course the one making products for corporates won - they have more money
... but the rebels/young at heart are still there,, not that many, but they
are loyal. But Microsoft so-o owns part of Apple now :-) !
Combined with the fact that the Apple fanbase are still mad at Microsoft
because they still believe that Microsoft stole many ideas from Apple - this
has made them buy a phone at $499 despite the price being ridiculous and
Microsoft laughing at the price in public.
And many did buy.
Ref movies/documentaries:-
1) Pirates of silicon valley [movie of both competitors from college to
billionaires]
2) Truimph of the nerds [3 part documentary about the same]
3) Nerds 2.0.1 [10 years later- networking]
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Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 12:50:36 +0300
From: Phares Kariuki <pkariuki@gmail.com>
To: Skunkworks forum <skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke>
Subject: Re: [Skunkworks] the new iphone
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http://www.phonearena.com/htmls/Palm-Pre-Review-review-r_2192.html
Competition for the iPhone, I have personally always been a Palm fan, first
PDA was Palm :)
On 6/15/09, ndungu stephen <ndungustephen@gmail.com> wrote:
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> @Billy and Phillip
> Very true:
>
> All this goes back to the fact that the country was split into two during
> the 80s as to who is cooler and who is better for business....
> Steve jobs/Apple provided the cooler uses for machines... while Bill
> Gates/Microsoft was seen as the tasteless corporate kind of niche.[California hippies vs Wallstreet]
>
> Of course the one making products for corporates won - they have more money
> ... but the rebels/young at heart are still there,, not that many, but they
> are loyal. But Microsoft so-o owns part of Apple now :-) !
>
> Combined with the fact that the Apple fanbase are still mad at Microsoft
> because they still believe that Microsoft stole many ideas from Apple - this
> has made them buy a phone at $499 despite the price being ridiculous and
> Microsoft laughing at the price in public.
>
> And many did buy.
>
> Ref movies/documentaries:-
>
> 1) Pirates of silicon valley [movie of both competitors from college to
> billionaires]
> 2) Truimph of the nerds [3 part documentary about the same]
> 3) Nerds 2.0.1 [10 years later- networking]
>
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Phares Kariuki
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Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 12:54:44 +0300
From: Solomon Mburu <solo.mburu@gmail.com>
To: Skunkworks <skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke>
Subject: [Skunkworks] Thought this might be of interest
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Mobile phones lower the cost of
business<http://feedproxy.google.com/%7Er/Bankelele/%7E3/N7ORRYltn1U/mobile-phones-lower-cost-of-business.html>
Posted: 12 Jun 2009 08:45 AM PDT
*Money Transfer Within Kenya Part 3*
A comment from @alykhansatchu on Money transfer lead to an update of the
first post about money
transfer<http://bankelele.blogspot.com/2005/09/money-transfer-within-kenya.html>from
about 3 ? years ago before the advent of mobile money transfers.
At that time, the cost of sending 10,000 shillings (then about $136) within
Kenya was Kshs. 1,700 ($23) with Western Union and 1,850 ($25) with
Moneygram - working out to a remittance cost of about 17% - 19% for an
instant money transfer. This was mostly done at a few commercial bank
branches, some foreign exchange bureaus, and at post offices around the
country within banking hours.
*90% savings:* A lot has happened in the last few years mainly in the form
of the arrival of money transfers via mobile phones by
MPesa<http://www.safaricom.co.ke/index.php?id=745>from Safaricom and
more recently
Zap <http://www.ke.zain.com/en/zap/index.html> from Zain.
A recent post last week noted that Western Union in Kenya have just lowered
transfer costs <http://moseskemibaro.com/?p=412> to flat rates of 2% i.e.
almost 88% cheaper than what they were at the time.
In the last few years, millions of Kenyans have moved on to mobile phones
for money transfer and I can?t recall anyone who uses banks for these
transactions. Mobile phone have maximums of about $430 (35,000 shillings)
for money transfers, but this is more than enough to cater for most
remittances, including the emergencies that necessitate instant transfers.
And mobiles are still cheaper; the 2% western union charge to transfer
10,000 shillings works out to about 200 shillings. A transfer of the same
amount by Zap costs 75 shillings (0.75%) and 105 shillings (1.05%) by M-Pesa
(after combining sender and receiver fees)
*International remittance to get cheaper?:* Zain hope to link Zap to allow
transfers to customers of Zain in different African countries. And Safaricom
are setting up a link for transfers from the United Kingdom to Kenya. When
these are established, we should also see the cost of internal remittances,
whose sometime high cost is a cause for complaint for many Africans in the
Diaspora, also drop significantly.
--
Solomon Mburu
P.O. Box 19343 - 00202 Nairobi
Cell: (+254-0) 735 431041
Man is a gregarious animal and enjoys agreement as cows will graze all the
same way to the side of a hill!
AND
It is better to die in dignity than in the ignomity of ambiguous generosity!
Sent from Nairobi, Kenya
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Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 12:57:53 +0300
From: Paul Mathu <mails.mathu@gmail.com>
To: Skunkworks forum <skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke>
Subject: Re: [Skunkworks] Mobile Apps query
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Enlight me abit here, the .jar file only has the extra details for the app.
But that does not make the application restricting to only install in that
device. From what i think is, if anyone copys the .jad n .jar files, i can
run them on a diffent gadget all together. This is what am trying to avoid.
Clear this for me pls.
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Regards
Mathu
http://sojjar.blogspot.com
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Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 13:09:27 +0300
From: ndungu stephen <ndungustephen@gmail.com>
To: Skunkworks forum <skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke>
Subject: Re: [Skunkworks] the new iphone
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Many manufacturers have produced iPhone competitors to make sure they keep
up with the hype:-
Sony Ericsson has a few :-) [?] !!
1)
http://find-greatdeals.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/sony-ericsson-xperia-x1-smartphone.jpg
2)
http://www.mobileburn.com/imagepop.jsp?Id=7135&file=media%2Fsonyericsson%2Faino%2Fthumb_Satio_Front_Black.jpg
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