Re: Facebook buys drone technology

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Date	31 Mar 2014 19:52:47 GMT
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On 2014-03-31, Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> wrote:

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> In Kenya they have a successful micropayments system which runs over
> SMS; they don't even need web enabled phones to use this.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-Pesa

> In the following BBC podcast from last July, Peter Day "visits Kenya's
> high-tech incubators and talks to the innovators building on the success
> of the mobile money system M-Pesa."

Ahh. Should have read further ahead.

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Facebook buys drone technology Hils <hils@saynotospam.net> - 2014-03-29 08:33 +0000
  Re: Facebook buys drone technology john <nospam@no.net> - 2014-03-29 13:30 -0800
    Re: Facebook buys drone technology RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-03-31 09:59 +0000
      Re: Facebook buys drone technology Hils <hils@saynotospam.net> - 2014-03-31 15:03 +0100
        Re: Facebook buys drone technology RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-03-31 14:24 +0000
        Re: Facebook buys drone technology Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2014-03-31 19:11 +0200
      Re: Facebook buys drone technology Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2014-03-31 19:10 +0200
        Re: Facebook buys drone technology Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2014-03-31 19:52 +0000
          Re: Facebook buys drone technology Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2014-04-01 13:16 +0200
            Re: Facebook buys drone technology Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2014-04-02 09:01 +0000

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