Since 1954, the Leica M-System has represented an unmistakable, individual kind of photography and a very conscious photographic style and allowed photographers to capture, document and interpret life's fleeting moments in all fields of photography, from photojournalism, reportage and 'available light' to the capture of portraits and aesthetic, fine-art images.
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Only the academia has followed the M-R system with any degree of consistency.
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Part of the reason the M-R system has never caught on with the general public is that it liberally uses two diacritic marks: the apostrophe and the breve.
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For place names, a less traumatic solution would have been to simply push for wider public awareness and acceptance of the current spellings, which broadly follow the M-R system.
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But there is also, equally clearly, a rather big difference between a cheap money-transfer system like M-PESA and a full lending bank like Citicorp.
Take Olga Morawczynski, a 20-something University of Edinburgh doctorate student who recently spent over a year in Kenya, where she studied the use of M-Pesa, a system for transferring money by cell phones.
In Kenya, the M-Pesa mobile money transfer system was launched in 2007 and is now woven into the fabric of everyday life.
The idea is already taking off in Kenya where Safaricom introduced a new system called M-KESHO three months ago, allowing people to put money into a savings account with their mobiles.
Second, Kenya has undergone a revolution since 2007, when M-PESA, a mobile-payments system operated by Safaricom, a phone company, was launched (see chart).
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The company had already announced an initial system reduction to its M-80 fleet in March of this year, to take place in the fourth quarter.
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And it acted to soup up fundraising and efficiency by hiring, in early 2000, Van Etten, a longtime nonprofit health-care-system executive with a Harvard M.
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Cultivating a network of entrepreneurs inside this system, in concert with local universities and outfits like M-PESA, the mobile payment service of Vodaphone affiliate Safaricom, is another step.
Customers use it by depositing money in the M-PESA kitty via 19, 000 local shops that are signed up to the system.
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The many long-awaited innovations include the official presentation of the new i'm Droid 2 operating system: the customized Android version developed by i'm Watch engineers.
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I'm guessing that the problem is millions of iPhone users--old and new--all logged into the system at the exact same time and overwhelmed the servers.
In a letter to Mayor Bing and Gov. Rick Snyder (via Freemark), the business leaders behind M-1 urge the officials to push forward with the rail line as a complement to the bus-rapid system (BRT).
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In the emerging world , the most famous mobile payments success is in Kenya, where M-Pesa , the P2P payments service of mobile phone supplier Safaricom, has effectively created an alternative banking and payments system.
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