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AfricaDotNet has moved to www.AfricaDotNet.COM
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over 3 years ago
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The original AfricaDotNet user group domain and site have been unavailable for some time and the new way to access this site is via www.AfricaDotNet.com . Notice that the only difference is the change to .COM from .ORG so any member looking should now...
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Invited to Speak at 1st DigiGirlz conference in Nairobi
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over 3 years ago
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I have a speaking engagement at the 1st DigiGirlz and really looking forward to this!
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Obopay.com!!
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over 3 years ago
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http://www.businessdailyafrica.com/Company%20Industry/-/539550/647944/-/u7phinz/-/index.html
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Enabling Startups and software entrepreneurs with BizSpark™
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over 3 years ago
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A startup software development company faces the same challenges as many other small businesses top of which may be raising capital. The initial capital normally finds uses in areas such as setting up the hardware and other infrastructure, catering software...
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Personalized business email (or family) address
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over 3 years ago
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Your business can get all the features of Windows Live Hotmail i.e. 5 GB of storage, improved spam protection and customizable design, but under a distinct email address yourname@ yourbusinessname .com . You can setup up to 500 email addresses on the...
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Imagine Cup 2008 E.A. Winners from Makerere University
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over 4 years ago
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Following last year's successful Imagine Cup semi finals in Kenya and finals in East Africa, a good number of tech students have been looking forward to the next challenge. Uganda, having produced last year's winners tops the momentum in the number of...
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Open XML: US votes "Yes with comments"
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over 5 years ago
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The US National Body (INCITS Executive Board) passed a motion this evening to cast a “ Yes with Comments ” vote on DIS29500 – the voting was: · 16 Yes (Apple, US Department of Homeland Security, EIA, EMC, GS1 US, HP, Intel, Lexmark, Microsoft, NIST...
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Germany votes "Yes with comments" for Open XML
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over 5 years ago
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The Deutsche Institut für Normung (DIN) in Germany announced on August 21st that it will support the advancement of Open XML as an ISO international standard. Jason has blogged about Germany's announcement to Vote Yes with comments for Open XML on...
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Intellectual Property Rights - Open XML Provides a royalty free license & conforms to ISO rules
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over 5 years ago
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User rights are assured in the case of the OpenXML standard at various levels: Via the standardization within ECMA the OpenXML standards has to be conform to the IPR (Intellectual Property Rights) rules of ECMA. An ISO 29500 (OpenXML) standard has...
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Novell, Open Source Software support Open XML
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over 5 years ago
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Please see the links below regarding Novell's support for OpenXML Novell's download page for the OpenOffice Open XML Translator: http://download.novell.com/SummaryFree.jsp?buildid=ESrjfdE4U58~ Novell's download page for OpenOffice: http://www...
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ZDNET: Open standards advocate comes out in favor of Open XML
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over 5 years ago
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I have reproduced this article from ZDNET: http://www.zdnetasia.com/news/software/0,39044164,62021038,00.htm Open standards advocate comes out in favor of Microsoft By Don Sambandaraksa , Bangkok Post Thursday, June 14 2007 11:21 AM Microsoft...
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First to Standardize! - Who hoo
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over 5 years ago
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ODF 1.0 is completely insufficient for spreadsheet interoperability today and SUN were aware and rushed it in order to be 1st. http://notes2self.net/archive/2006/07/12/Cutting-corners-_2D00_-the-realpolitik-of-ODF-standardisation_3F00_.aspx
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EMCA Office Open XML - Why it is good for Kenya
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over 5 years ago
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Why Open XML is good for the country: Ø ISO standardization means passing the control of the format to an organization where countries of the world are taking the final decision Ø ODF came from OASIS and Open XML from ECMA international (who took...
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Silverlight
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over 5 years ago
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Silverlight is the new graphics and animation engine from Microsoft with a lightweight programming model for developing cross-platform rich internet applications with real languages. The runtime is .NET based and is only 4 MB to download (and download...
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www.ugandadotnet.org - Uganda's budding developer community is online
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over 5 years ago
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A few things may have happened unnoticed last week. One that deserves highlight is the online presence of Uganda's formeost developer usergroup under www.UgandaDotNet.Org I'm super excited as this creates another sharing medium for developers in this...
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Open XML Developer Training in Nairobi, Kenya on 28th, 29th and 30th May 07-
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over 5 years ago
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I am guessing by now that we have all heard about Open XML document. In case you haven't, Open XML format enables interoperability and choice in the documents space through the power of XML and helps to unlock data in documents and allowing integration...
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Beginner Developer Learning Centre
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over 5 years ago
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This is two months old... but for those that haven't tried this new resource and are new to .NET, please do!! You will love it. see the links below http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/beginner/ I like the interview with Dan Fernandez on Channel...
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MSDN Community Distribution pilots in Kenya
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over 5 years ago
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MSDN Community Distribution is an emerging markets program by Microsoft to produce focused MSDN content for FREE. The program is on pilot in Kenya since December 2006 and was started to get content to developers in bandwidth challenged areas (basically...
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