NY TIMES: Inside Nairobi, the Next Palo Alto?

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4phun - 20 Jul 2008 12:40 GMT

Inside Nairobi, the Next Palo Alto?

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/20/business/worldbusiness/20ping.html?_r=2&oref=s
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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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zwsdotcom@gmail.com - 20 Jul 2008 22:26 GMT

> 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.

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Bob Fry - 22 Jul 2008 00:49 GMT

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

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Mark Crispin - 22 Jul 2008 16:16 GMT

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

I think that he meant East Palo Alto.

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