We're all aware of the unemployment problem in this country, but other than thousands and thousands of words, the issue has not seen any great change, but now a warning has been sounded... Evan Pickworth, addressing an economic conference last week pointed out a stark warning on the potential threat we face in the form of
rebellion by a jobless youth, desperate and frustrated.
We need to sit up and take notice - and then actually do what is needed to defuse what could be a very explosive situation.
On the mobile front, Mark Schefermann looks at
the future of the mobile voice.
So why were they closed in the first place? After years of calls from various quarters to re-open the teacher training colleges, which the government closed soon after taking power, the Minister of Higher Education Blade Nzimande has now announced that
teacher training colleges are to re-open. Many might say, about time, but too late... the education system is already a shambles.
Don't you wish you were a consultant to a government department? Well, perhaps you are...if so, you should be happy with your share of the
R24.6bn spent on consultants in a three-year period - yes, that's R24,600,000,000. Now the Office of the Auditor General has called for stricter controls on the use of consultants by government. To put this into perspective: if you spent R10,000 a day, every day, to spend this amount of cash would take you 2,460,000 days - or six thousand, seven hundred and fifty eight years and three months. Happy spending!
Onto some good news...
Kruger has reopened roads, camps and picnic spots.
Rod Baker: Content Director
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Global USD5.8 billion global ICT solutions and services provider Dimension Data has signed a global partnership with AirWatch, the mobile device management provider and mobile security company. 
According to Kaspersky Lab data, the share of spam in email traffic decreased steadily throughout 2012 to hit a five-year low. The average for the year stood at 72.1% - 8.2 percentage points less than in 2011. Such a prolonged and substantial decrease in spam levels is unprecedented. 
RESTON, US: comScore, Inc, a leader in measuring the digital world, has released its monthly analysis of US web activity at the top online properties for December 2012 based on data from the comScore Media Metrix service. 
OTTAWA, CANADA: WhatsApp's mobile messaging service used by hundreds of millions of people worldwide breached privacy laws in at least two countries, a joint Canadian-Dutch probe concluded on Monday (28 January). 
LONDON, UK: Andy Castonguay, principal analyst at Informa Telecoms & Media comments on Apple's financial results. 
WASHINGTON, USA: Hacker group Anonymous said it disabled the US Sentencing Commission's website over the weekend in revenge for the death of Internet freedom activist Aaron Swartz. 
LONDON, UK: David McQueen, principal analyst at Informa Telecoms & Media, comments on Nokia's financial results. 
SAN FRANCISCO, USA: Apple's iPhone remained the most popular smartphone among US buyers in the closing months of 2012 while Android handsets were on top worldwide, Kantar Worldpanel ComTech reported on Tuesday (21 January). 
