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10 Ways To Use Business Degrees [Infographic]

Business degrees are important foundation to becoming an entrepreneur. This infographic shows you 10 different ways to use business degrees to accelerate your personal and professional life. Your choice of degrees goes hand-in-hand with the choice of university. Ensure the reputation of the university holds up on international rankings. The South African government merged several …

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Alarm as high number of motorists chat on move

AN alarming number of Port Elizabeth motorists are guilty of talking on their cellphones while driving – which is almost as dangerous as drinking and driving. And the worst offenders are women. In a survey over a five-day period in the city last month, more than 7000 drivers were spotted tapping out messages or chatting …

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Smartphone apps track users even when shut down

Some smartphone apps collect and transmit sensitive information stored on a phone, including location, contacts, and Web browsing histories, even when the apps are not being used by the phone’s owner, according to two researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. “It seems like people are no longer in control of their own privacy,” said …

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Ubuntu's Shuttleworth bets on Inktank for cloud storage services

Cloud storage services startup Inktank today announced that Mark Shuttleworth, the entrepeneur behind Ubuntu Linux and the first African in space, has invested a million dollars in the company. Inktank provides support and services to enterprises who want to deploy the Ceph open source distributed file system, which is designed to run spread out across multiple servers—like the arms of …

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