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| Is Safaricom Ready for Disruption |
 | Is Safaricom Ready for Disruption?
In acquiring One Communication
Ltd by paying only Ksh180 million for a majority of its shares, Safaricom shows it
understands the potential of IP-based voice and data solutions providers
and is ready for a battle royale that, as has been said in
these pages, will present its biggest headache for future growth.
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| CDMA- the future of communication |
CDMA- the future of communication
Considering just how good the news seems, it is astounding just how poorly the messengers are telling it. The drastic discounts and improved product that Telkom Kenya has put on the market may well represent a revolution.
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Excuse me, ICT what?
My grandmother has always been a drama queen. If in search of a divergent opinion, she is the best candidate.
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| ICT spurs rural economic growth |
ICT Spurs Rural Economic Growth
The rural poor have long been regarded largely as an ignorant, unproductive, and dependent economic underclass.Â
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| Bengali women cross the digital divide |
Bengali women cross the digital divide
"There's enormous entrepreneurship and creativity worldwide, and through mobile phones you're providing people with the tools - rather than aid - to earn a living", says Leonard Waverman, chair of the Department of Economics at the London Business School.
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| Kenya Offline |
Kenya Offline
Having a website may be the latest fad for many Kenyan companies, but how many of these websites have relevant information? How many have content that browsers are looking for?
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| Kenyan techies headed to jail |
Kenyan techies headed to jail
If the new
Kenya Communications Amendment bill becomes law, all Kenyan techies and
computer owners with pay a fine of shs 1 million, or risk a jail term or both.
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| Security at your fingertips |
Security at your fingertips
The modern world is a world of advanced technology. The ubiquity
of the worldwide web and the global expansion of broadband connectivity
and wireless applications have created a new world, changing forever the
way that we work.
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| The Digital Villages project |
The Digital Villages project
Martin
Kimani was very amused when an aspiring parliamentarian in his Molo constituency, pledged that he would ensure the construction and installation of a digital village if he won the election.
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| Will it Be Phones or Computers that Close the Digital Divide? |
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Will it Be Phones or Computers that Close the Digital Divide?
In the UK, the news that British Telecom (BT) hopes to connect 500,000 homes to high-speed broadband of up to 60Mb by 2010 has been greeted, in some quarters, with concern that there will be a "digital divide" between urban centres and rural areas. Only two semi-rural areas are going to be connected in this first phase, and less than half the country is expected to have access to similar speeds by 2012. Rural dwellers worry that they will be left behind as the national infrastructure
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