Your career needs a fresh start?
Right, you got your bonus in December so that's under the bridge and now you are feeling sort of...you know...restless. So rather than the devil you know, you are coming around to the thought that this could be a good time to make a change.
Well before you do, Juliette Attwell has some words of advice for you, on
making a fresh start and she also clarifies what constitutes valid reasons for leaving your present job.
Still on careers, it seems managers at Telkom might be wise to dust of their CVs and update them because it appears that
up to 1,000 managers may face the axe. Some cuts were apparently expected, but Telkom's chief executive, Sipho Maseko's comments to the Bloomberg news agency suggest deeper and more far-reaching cuts than many had imagined.
Planning a trip to Limpopo? Make sure you get your anti-malaria medication beforehand and make sure you are aware of the symptoms. Why? Because the Limpopo authorities have
issued a travel warning, following a malaria outbreak.
Finally...some good news, and let's hope it stays that way and doesn't degenerate into the 'tragic-comic' farce of last year...It is reported that...wait for it...
the delivery of school textbooks is on track for 2014.
It is common knowledge that supplying textbooks to learners countrywide is fraught with
challenges. Let's make sure what happened last year never happens again.
Our school children deserve every chance they can get.
Rod Baker, Content Director
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Russel Brand Smart phones, tablets and other mobile devices have become essential tools in the business world of today. However, as ICT has evolved and the mobile workforce has become increasingly ubiquitous, mobility itself has grown and changed, and is fast becoming a tool for the execution of business processes as well. Read more >>
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 | Mellanox's Switch X-2 based SX1012 Ethernet Switch is now available from Distributor Drive Control Corporation (DCC). Read more >>
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 | LAS VEGAS, USA: Chinese telecommunicationss company Huawei said it aims to sell 80m smartphones in 2014, as it boosts its brand name worldwide and makes a new push for US consumers. Read more >>
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 | SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA: South Korea's Samsung said on Tuesday (7 January) it expected a steep drop in its operating profit for the fourth quarter of 2013, as slowing sales of high-end smartphones and a strong won hit the world's top technology firm. Read more >>
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 | As part of its ongoing commitment to adding value for guests, the City Lodge Hotel Group has greatly increased complimentary wireless internet (Wi-Fi) availability at its hotels. Read more >>
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 | WASHINGTON, US: The US National Security Agency is making strides toward building a "quantum computer" that could break nearly any kind of encryption, The Washington Post has reported. Read more >>
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 | Thabiso Mochiko Telkom's chief executive Sipho Maseko has moved to calm a storm over his comments last week that up to 1‚000 managers face the axe at the company‚ although he confirmed that its staff numbers would be reduced in wide-ranging efforts to cut costs. Read more >>
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 | Most companies see the Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) trend, where employees use their personal mobile devices for work purposes, as a growing threat to business. Yet, the percentage of companies taking measures to minimise this threat is relatively small, according to the results of the Global Corporate IT Security Risks 2013 survey, conducted by B2B International in collaboration with Kaspersky Lab. Read more >>
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 | Thabiso Mochiko Telkom (TKG) CEO Sipho Maseko has moved to calm a storm over his comments on Friday that up to 1‚000 managers face the axe at the company‚ although he confirmed that its staff numbers would be reduced in wide-ranging changes to cut costs. Read more >>
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 | Edward Carbutt Many organisations embark upon ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library) training with the hope of improving IT Service Management (ITSM), only for the significant investment in time and money to fail to deliver the expected benefits. The underlying reason for this is that most ITIL courses are theory based, imparting information but not necessarily delivering the practical capabilities required to put the information into practice. Read more >>
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 | Cabinet Secretary for Information and Communication Technology, Fred Matiang'i, has warned that Kenya's mobile network operators risk losing their licences if they do not improve services rendered to clients. Read more >>
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 | LONDON, UK: Britain is recruiting an army of amateur historians to sift through more than 1.5m pages of diaries written by World War I army officers, published online for the first time 100 years after the conflict began. Read more >>
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 | SAN FRANCISCO, USA: Google announced that it is buying a smart thermostat start-up Nest in a deal valued at US$3.2bn. Read more >>
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 | NEW YORK, USA: The White House is poised to sign a year-long contract with global consulting firm Accenture, worth roughly US$90m, to maintain the government's troubled health insurance website, according to reports in the US. Read more >>
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 | FRANKFURT, GERMANY: German software company SAP said that cloud-computing boosted sales and earnings in the fourth quarter of 2013 and the year as a whole. Read more >>
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 | NEW YORK, USA: The chief executives of Apple and Samsung have agreed to attend a mediation session by mid-February to discuss their legal battle over smartphone patents according to court documents. Read more >>
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 | LAS VEGAS, US: Kid-safe tablets and smartphones are hitting the market, giving parents more control over how the mobile devices are used. Read more >>
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 | LAS VEGAS, USA: - Motorola is pushing all the buttons to regain prominence in the smartphone market, including aggressive pricing, says chief executive Dennis Woodside. Read more >>
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 | LAS VEGAS, USA: LG said that its curved and slightly bendable G-Flex smartphone will be available in the US by April in partnership with telecommunications firms AT&T, Sprint and T-Mobile. Read more >>
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