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NY TIMES: Inside Nairobi, the Next Palo Alto?

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4phun

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Jul 20, 2008, 7:40:35 AM7/20/08
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Inside Nairobi, the Next Palo Alto?

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/20/business/worldbusiness/20ping.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&oref=slogin

Programmers are catering to the 10 million cellphones in Kenya.

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By G. PASCAL ZACHARY
Published: July 20, 2008

IN the republic of innovation, life is unfair. A relatively small
number of places — all in wealthy countries or in China and India —
create nearly every important technological advance.

Your next cell phone program may be a creation of one of Obama's
distant brothers!

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Jul 20, 2008, 5:26:30 PM7/20/08
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On Jul 20, 7:40 am, 4phun <vic.hea...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Your next cell phone program may be a creation of one of Obama's
> distant brothers!

Since everyone in the world is a distant brother to everyone else
already, we're already there.

Bob Fry

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Jul 21, 2008, 7:49:36 PM7/21/08
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Anybody who thinks Nairobi is going to be like Palo Alto clearly has
never visited both.
--
Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and
superstition.
~ Adam Smith

Mark Crispin

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Jul 22, 2008, 11:16:47 AM7/22/08
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On Mon, 21 Jul 2008, Bob Fry posted:

> Anybody who thinks Nairobi is going to be like Palo Alto clearly has
> never visited both.

I think that he meant East Palo Alto.

-- Mark --

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Democracy is two wolves and a sheep deciding what to eat for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.

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