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Cloud computing

Basically, personal cloud computing means having every piece of data you need for every aspect of your life at your fingertips and ready for use. Data must be mobile, transferable, and instantly accessible. The key to enabling the portable and interactive you is the ability to synch up your data among your devices, as well as access to shared data. Shared data is the data we access online in any number of places, such as social networks, banks, blogs, newsrooms, paid communities, etc. Cloud computing for Africa is the dream come true since the main hindering factors of the advancement of IT industry in Africa where infrastructures and going cloud meaning that increasing ability to share resources in a virtual world rather than using physical hardware and resources in which in one way or the other it was difficult to achieve in our continent. For example now we don’t have to move physical servers and hardware from one area to another and reduce the cost and com

Launching the Savannah Fund in East Africa

All Rights Reserved  From White African Blog : Launching the Savannah Fund in East Africa by HASH on June 6, 2012 I’m happy to finally be able to publicly announce the Savannah Fund , an accelerator fund focused on finding and investing in East Africa’s highest potential pre-revenue startups. It’s a partnership between Mbwana Alliy , Paul Bragiel and myself – along with a great list of limited partners (LPs) who are investing in the fund. The idea is to bring the Silicon Valley-style accelerator model to Africa, seeing what needs to be tweaked to make it work for our region. It’s a small fund at $10m, with most of the activity focused on classes of 5 startups at a time being brought on board and invested in. They’ll get $25,000 for 15% equity, and have 3-6 months to prove themselves. Those who fail either pivot or leave, those who gain traction have a chance at follow-on funding. A portion of the fund will be invested at the $100-200k range where we’

Insights Africa: Google Launches Website on Africa Internet Trends (“First of it’s Kind”)

All Rights Reserved  From TechTalkAfrica : Insights Africa: Google Launches Website on Africa Internet Trends (“First of it’s Kind”) by Staff Writer - on Apr 4th 2012 Recently Google recently launched a new interactive tool providing data about the online behavior of urban consumers in five key African markets: Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa and Uganda, the site is called  Insights Africa , it is filled with insights on people’s behaviors and attitudes regarding the Internet in Africa. The aim is to understand how and why people use the internet, what prevents non-users from coming online, and much more This  is what Google had to say on their Google Africa Blog “As more and more people start using the internet in Sub-Saharan Africa, it becomes ever more important to understand the online population. After completing the study, we wanted to make sure that this data was publicly accessible, easy-to-understand, and to ensure t

Software for mobile development

Mobile development has been growing since the day Apple introduced iPhone. Mobile browser has never been so robust. It supports HTML5, CSS3 even with CSS animation. After that, Google introduced Android, and the era of mobile platform has began. Motodev Dedicated to opening up the potential of Android to every developer, Motodev is simply the best way to get started, stay inspired, and invent the future with a whole new generation of phenomenal user experiences.      Motodev has everything you need information, early access, tools and documentation, community support, and go to market resources to get started, develop, and distribute Android apps that tap the power of Motorola’s latest hardware innovations.For more information about Motodev studio follow this Learn more DynamicX DHTMLX Touch is an HTML5-based JavaScript library for building mobile web applications. It is not just a set of UI widgets, but a complete framework that allo

Developing System management application using Visual Basic 6.0 and windows shell command

The advanced options such as system shutdown, system restart, notepad display and displaying the task manager can be activated and executed by using the command prompt of windows. These same commands can be used in Visual basic to create simple but powerful applications by starting with the keyword [SHELL] followed by the command in the double quotation marks for example the codes for the above application are..   Private Sub Command1_Click() Shell ("taskmgr") End Sub Private Sub Command2_Click() Shell ("shutdown/s") End Sub Private Sub Command3_Click() Shell ("write") End Sub Private Sub Command4_Click() Shell ("shutown/r") End Sub

Getting Computer Password using C language

  For those with passion in C- Language is something nice to practice take a look to the header files in case you didn't understand Google them and understand why they where used in this program have fun guys..... Code : # include<stdio.h> # include<stdio.h> # include<process.h> # include<stdlib.h> # include<ctype.h> # include<conio.h> # include<mem.h> unsigned char huge Data[100001]; unsigned char keystream[1001]; int Rpoint[300]; void main(int argc,char *argv[]){     FILE *fd;     int i,j;     int size;     char ch;     char *name;     int cracked;     int sizemask;     int maxr;     int rsz;     int pos;     int Rall[300];     /* Resourse allocation table */     if(argc<2){             printf("usage: glide filename (username)");             exit(1);     }     /* Read PWL file */     fd=fopen(argv[1],"rb");     if(fd==NULL){                   printf("can't open file %s",argv[1]);                  

Kaspersky 2012

Kaspersky 2012 antivirus from the kaspersky lab is among the most influential antivirus software which are used by most of the organizations in East Africa. The antivirus has proved it self in fighting against viruses, Trojans, spam, hackers and more. Today we are going to review the antivirus has compared to other 2012 antiviruses in market. For: Combines our fast and efficient antivirus software with premium Internet threat defense Delivers real-time protection from new and emerging threats Identifies suspicious and dangerous websites and search results Secures your identity while online banking and shopping Provides a safe social networking environment Prevents hacker attacks with best-in-class firewall Filters out dangerous and unwanted emails Keeps your children safe and responsible with advanced parental controls Easy-to-use interface and Desktop Security Gadget Against: The only drawback of the antivirus is that to download update files and

Open GTS a solution for developers of GPS tracking projects in Africa

OPEN GTS A SOLUTION FOR DEVELOPERS OF GPS TRACKING PROJECTS IN AFRICA        OpenGTS  is an open source project which can help developers in Africa and anywhere in the world who want to develop web based applications on tracking system of different devices from mobile phones to cars. The project provides complete support to different operating systems and developing environment and the idea itself can be of much use if its applied effectively. The project like this can help most of African companies and individuals to track different items in their day to day life. OpenGTS  is the first available open source project designed specifically to provide web-based   GPS   tracking services for  vehicles and auto mobiles. OpenGTS   has been successful in most of the countries and it has proven to be effective and reliable this is the challenge to Tanzanian and African developers to use these tools which are available for free to develop applications which are useful to our s