The global credit crisis may have caused the decline in consumer and business spending that is assaulting the giants of high tech. But as the dominant technology companies try to emerge from this slump, they may find themselves blaming people like David Title just as much as they blame Wall Street.  Read the [...]

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Zanele Hlahane is Sales Person: Telesales.

Favorite quote? “God give me the strength to change the things I can; the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; and wisdom to know the difference”.
What did you want to be when you were little? I wanted to be a Psychologist.
What is in the boot your car / [...]

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The long awaited and very much debated act, titled the Intellectual Property Rights from Publicly Financed Research and Development Act 51 of 2008, was passed on 22 December 2008. The Act itself represents a step forward in terms of stimulating innovation and economic growth by the identification of commercialisation opportunities arising from publicly funded research [...]

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Sabinet has adopted UBUNTU as its first choice as a server operating system. The article below didn’t surprise us at all:
In December, hundreds of these controversial software developers gathered for one week at the Google headquarters in Mountain View, Calif. They came from all over the world, sporting many of the usual signs of software [...]

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[Copenhagen, Helsingborg, Sweden] (LOC), originally uploaded by The Library of Congress.
The 169 glorious and majestic views of Norway, Sweden, and Denmark in Photochrom Travel Views are part of a much larger collection that they will be sharing on Flickr as they move from the top of the world on down. It gives a magnificent [...]

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Here is a short animated video on the history of the internet. Milah Bilgil created the movie as part of his diploma studies using a new type of info-graphic called PICOL icons.  
(If it does not start after clicking Play, just click “Pause” and then “Play” again.)

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Being a Librarian is one of the best careers for 2009, according to the US News and World Report top 30 careers for 2009. Among the 30 best careers chosen are Ghostwriter, Government manager, Hairstylist / cosmetologist, Higher education administrator and Locksmith. Scoring was done on the following five criteria: 

Job outlook
Average job satisfaction
Difficulty of the required training
Prestige 
Pay

How would Librarianship rate [...]

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