Panic button on your cellphone
This is a reprint from the Pete’s Weekly email newsletter for entrepreneurs with a rather sad story. It alerted me to another way to turn cellphones into a useful tool for families which is mentioned below…Ramon I am deeply saddened to tell you that Sheldean Human’s body was discovered late Monday. I don’t know why […]
Cocaine parties organised via MXit
This is one of the most shocking applications I’ve yet come across for using MXit. Then again there is no surprises here because kids will find new and innovative ways to use technology to achieve their goals, good or bad. And this is a drug problem NOT a MXit problem. It existed before MXit or […]
cheaper Broadband for Academics
Treveor Manuel has announced a new initiative to offer cheaper broadband to Academics to facilitate and foster research. This is really something which government has been slow to address. Broadband should be available at discounted rates to students and especially for postgraduagte students. When they are not on campus they have to access the Internet […]
Bill Gates gives high school learners 11 rules to live by
Love him or hate him, he sure hits the nail on the head with this! To anyone with kids of any age, here’s some advice. Bill Gates recently gave a speech at a High School about 11 things they did not and will not learn in school. He talks about how feel-good, politically correct teachings, […]
John Farquhar speaks out on future of Newspapers
I received this response from John Farquhar after I emailed him about Duncan McLeod in Financial Mail’s column Newspapers R.I.P. Thanks for the link to McLeod’s column. There are two kinds of people in business. Those who live in the real world and those who fantasise about tomorrow’s where the old will be replaced by […]