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SPARCK greetings
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Greetings, Many thanks for your invitation. We enjoyed the session this afternoon and look forward to further conversations. All best, Dominique and Kadiatou
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Zain Expansion on Africa
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Telecommunications giants Zain <[link]> are planning to widen their services to the rural parts of Africa. The rural market is being seen as a huge potential for investment due to the increased number of subscribers in these areas. "We have experienced strong customer growth, especially with our Vuka Tarrif... more »
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Zain & Kirusa in Mobile voice SMS agreement
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Kirusa <[link]>, the world's leading vendor of voice SMS software has signed an agreement with Telecommunications giants Zain<[link]>to provide voice SMS software to the latter. This will enable Zain, with mobile telecommunication services across 22 countries in Africa and the... more »
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New ICT bill for Kenya
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Members of Kenya Private Sector Alliance (KEPSA <[link]>) are rejoicing over the introduction of the Kenya Communications (Amendment) Act 2008. The law is perceived to promote electronic trade (e-commerce) within Kenya and between Kenya and it's trading partners. The Kenya ICT (Information and Communication Technology) Federation... more »
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Google’s operating system Android may surpass iPhone’s
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The worldwide distribution for phones running Google’s Android mobile
operating system could surpass that of iPhone. A handset called Ophone
manufactured by Lenovo Mobile will be in the first quarter of this
year on China Mobile and it will be running Android.
China Mobile is the world’s largest carrier with over 300 million... more »
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Google to release Chrome for Mac and Linux by June
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Google announced that it would release versions of Chrome web browser
for Mac OS X and Linux by June 2009. This follows a new release of
chrome that has an extensions feature.
Chrome’s Product Manager said that both versions for Linux and Mac are
at a test shell level, where they can only show web pages.... more »
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China gets tough on Pornography, but may backfire
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Authorities in China responsible for Internet illegal Information have
listed sites that are said to have pornographic content and has warned
major websites to clean up this obscene content. The sites listed
include Goggle’s web page and image searches as well as several major
Chinese internet portals.... more »
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Text Messaging goes political in Thailand
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On his first day in office, the Prime Minister of Thailand recognized
the importance of communication, and more so the existence of the
ability to reach people more personally, through their mobile phones.
Mr. Abhisit Vejjajjva sent text messages to his constituents, taking
the first step to involve them in building the country, thus “I am... more »
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