Dear forum readers,


these days we have launched our new Linkstar broadband internet service on Intelat 1R:
http://www.afri-sat.com/coverage/ku_spot_is_1r/

Because we have huge capacities on that satellite now we are running a limited promotional discount of 30% for all customers until 1. June 09.

We are looking for customers, local resellers, distributors and distributors over Nigeria.

In case of your interest or further questions please feel free to contact us - see our wep page for contact details:
http://www.afri-sat.com/contact_us/

or contact me directly by: nd@afri-sat.com


best regards,


Niels.
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Niels Dettenbach
http://www.afri-sat.com

hello,

im shure the (really) next generation of search engines (and google is not more then a "search engine" would be a really open one. Like former - today mostly forgotten - protocols like WAIS or the Harvest Project future internet indexes ("search engines" would be run on open source software and communicates with standardized protocols.

Even google knows now that the content of an index should be collected "at the place" it is stored and is spending "indexing routers" to ISPs / hosting providers (but with a locked protocol).

To beat google as a search index we need a smart idea how to handle content indexing over a "open autonomous grid" and - at the second step - qualify content for different views. Ive just experimented with some old code from harvester to find out what was the real problem of the old search indexes like altavista and the others (and google today too). But to realize a new / better kind of "search solution" we need a community ofdevelopers wich are interested and able to code a platform independet open source solution.

If someone in nigeria is interested in contributing such a project please post here or contact me.

Cheers,

Niels.
nd@afri-sat.com
http.//www.afri.sat.com

We are looking for further interested local distributors of our Linkstar based satellite internet capacities on

[list]
[li]IS-907 (Ku-band)[/li]
[li]IS-1R (Ku-band)[/li]
[li]NSS-10 (C-band)[/li]
[/list]

Regardings terminals will be available in our local office in Lagos.

Please contact nd@afri-sat.com or visit http://www.afri-sat.com for more details.

hello folks,

I dont like google and im shure google is still over the peak with their business concept. It works as long as peoples are open to give them their peronalst information - at the time they will learn how dangerous such a rising amount of personal data and difficult to delete them would be it would be too late for many of today users.

Since their first and only real "improvement" - by link ranking / rating of search engine results - google tried and tries to copy any maybe worthfully idea within the internet. I assume and hope search engines of the future are open, distributed and based on a open / non-commercial protocol / standards (rfc). Google with his monopoly ideas is per se enemy of the autonomous internet infrastructure and i hope peoples will realize that early enough.

Chrome, Google Analytics, Gmail and (now) the internet gps tracker are both just a more step into watching internet users. Many things google is doing with their users data are illegal in Europe or europeans countries like Germany - so Google dont like to talk open about the usage of the collected users data. Just on the same day as Google releases the Chrome browser some IT security companies uncovered the hidden communicytion of the browser with google servers and - the first time in germany - this Google product was discussed witin the news (tv, press).

Now google targets more into africa and the satellite market by collecting much investors money worldwide - together with HFC the say they will bring "broadband internet on fiber quality to each african house (1-1.5bln users) until end of 2010" - to reach this they have "new technologies wich are allowing that". Im shure this is a ly or - only try from a very strange viewpoint. There is currently no real solution in satellite communication industries. I assume they mean at maximum a (very) "cropped" kind of IP no real internet as usual.

But until today there seems to be to much critics on them - the hype hides a widespread, public and open dicussion.

Cheers,

Niels.
nd@afri-sat.com
http://www.afri.sat.com