ORANGE UGANDA IS OFFICIALY SELLING IT'S SELF

As we articipated before Warid Telecom soled out to Bharti Airtel Uganda.Now this time, it's Orange Uganda looking for a buyer for it's business in Uganda.Orange is also thought to be planning an exit from several markets in Africa where it does not already hold a number one or two spot. Aside from Uganda,The Fench operator Orange has mandated Lazard to find a buyer for its mobile telecoms business in Uganda,

Uganda’s mobile market is dominated by MTN and Bharti Airtel. The latter acquired the third largest operator Warid Telecom for around US$100m from the Abu Dhabi Group in May 2013. MTN has around 8.5 million subscribers in Uganda, while post-merger, Airtel has over 7.5 million. The next largest is Uganda Telecom’s UT Mobile unit, with Orange Uganda among the country's smaller operators.

According to sources, the most logical buyer of the Orange Uganda unit could be MTN. The South African operator has previously been vocal about consolidation in the country, and will be keen to firm up its number one position, with second place Airtel gaining valuable ground. While Airtel is also clearly in acquisition mode across Africa, sources said it was unlikely the Indian telcom would make a move for Orange Uganda so soon after its Warid buyout.

What are the advantages and dis advantages of the sell out?
We won't know till the sell out. Just like we couldn't know about The Internet candles hiking that airtel made after paying out Warid and a lot more instabilities. For now, Wait...

 Source: NewVision

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MAN CHARGED WITH HACKING THE FEDS

A U.K. man with an alleged penchant for targeting the U.S. government has been charged with hacking into the Federal Reserve.
Prosecutors say the man, Lauri Love, snuck into servers used by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, where he stole and posted publicly names and private contact information.

Love has previously been charged with hacking an alphabet soup of federal agencies. He's accused of going after NASA, the Army, Health and Human Services, the Energy Department and the Environmental Protection Agency, as well as the Missile Defense Agency, U.S. Sentencing Commission and Regional Computer Forensics Laboratory.
Last year, prosecutors in New Jersey said his attacks "resulted in millions of dollars in damages to the government victims."
The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York said Love's several screen names include "Smedley Butler." Butler was a highly decorated but controversial major general in the Marines who, after he retired, wrote the 1935 book "War Is a Racket," which criticizes war profiteering and the U.S. military.
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Love hacked the Fed information by exploiting a database vulnerability, according to court documents filed by the U.S. Attorney's office.
The charges -- computer hacking and aggravated identity theft -- carry a maximum sentence of 12 years in prison, prosecutors said.
Love is not in custody on these charges. He was arrested in the U.K. in October on charges of hacking other government agencies, but the U.S. Attorney's office said it didn't know if he was held by British authorities. Efforts to reach British authorities to determine Love's status weren't immediately successful.

Source - www.cnn.com

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AMAIZING WINDOWS TRICK TO SHOW OFF TO YOUR FRIEND

Hello Ethertekers! Today i'll share with you one of windows most amazing bat hack/trick (Call it whatever you want) but i call it "The friendnoy".

  Whether  you just want to annoy computer administrators at work, school or Internet cafes, or just for fun at your home PC.

Fist things first, We \need notepad and follow the three simple steps.







Step 1: Open notepad.

Step 2: Copy and paste the following in notepad:

@echo off
:netannoy
msg * Hi!
msg * How r u ?
msg * Ethertek, Do you like it?
msg * My name is Elit Peter.\
msg * My email: elitepeter@gmail.com.
msg *And I will tell you about Ethertek.
msg * www.ethertekug.com
msg * Hav anice day.
msg * Thank you!!
Goto netannoy

Step 3. Save it as ethertek.bat.

NOTE: Don’t forget to put “.bat” at the end of the name you are saving it as. ie: (ethertek.bat)
 
And u r done.
NOTE. Any words you use after  the “msg *” code, is w hat will come on screen in the annoying massages. So Replace the massage to your convenience if you may.

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