Sam Gichuru

Spread the Love man.. not red numbers

Most Kenyans did not sleep because friends kept calling them warning them not to pick their phones if they receive a call from a “RED”  number- it would kill them instantly,  others even followed the sms that they witness it happen.  What you dint know is that Tanzania beat us to this hoax in 2007, and South Africa in 2004.

W: Number za Shetani (tanzani 2007)

Hi Colleagues,

I don’t know how true this is but just take precaution. Please don’t attend to any calls from the following numbers:

* 7888308001 *
* 9316048121 *
* 9876266211 *
* 9888854137 *
* 9876715587 *

These numbers come in red colors. U may get brain hemorrhage due to high frequency. 27 persons died just receiving the calls watch the DD news to confirm. Please inform all your relatives and friends soon it’s urgent.

So it’s a good time for you to learn about internet Urban Legends (google that), you have read them, baby kidnapped in a supermarket and shaved instantly , forward this to 5 people and get good luck, etc  everytime you get one of those emails, just pick the title and google it, you would be shocked how  many stories/legends are out there to scare you and hopefully next time don’t be like my boy kinuthia who calls everyone and even confesses to have been at the scene of the crime.

Can a phone Kill you,… I guess that depends on how hard someone hits you with it, or you try swallowing it, (I attended the launch of the new sony ericsson Xperia today, very small phone, since I dint win one, no way am going to blog about it.. yet .. sony can u hear me?), I digress….  someone might win a Darwin Awards soon by trying to charge their phone with Moto (fire) but let them be free to surprise us, I hope that is not a Samgichuru.com Blog reader, that will be sad, in the meantime I hope you sleep very peaceful tonight.

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Last week I was asked  by Egon Cossou a BBC reporter, does Kenya have what it takes to produce global market innovations? My answer was YES with a straight face, not only do we have potential to innovate for the global market but we are the future hub of technology in sub Saharan Africa, India and China despite their population, education and infrastructure growth should watch out for the small Africa countries that have been written of time and time again.

My feelings where reinforced when Paul Graham of Y Combinator said that he would rather fund an incubator for less glamorous businesses, like gas stations and plumbers, and that high tech innovation that achieves global scales tends to flow from developed to emerging markets and not vice Versa – as my friend says, we love and are impressed by your management skills Paul, but we Kenyans respectfully disagree with your sentiments – We are producing Global Scale solutions, just watch this space.

nominate someone to the board... Go on..

A few of my friends have submited my name for nominations to this Innovation board, well I think I might need like a thousand nominations to qualify, so If you think I am suitable to sit on Safricoms Innovation Board, the process is simple, they only need , the name , email address, phone number and reason you think that person needs to be on that board. Read the rest of this entry »