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FBI Warning

The USA FBI has released a warning to US citizens that are just as relevant, if not more so, to South African citizens both in SA and when traveling abroad:…

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Facebook IPO not doing so well

The Facebook IPO is now expected to receive weaker attention by investors according to a Bloomberg report. This after Facebook released additional information that stated that revenues did not increase…

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News is no longer newsworthy

Technology is killing the traditional press. Information is being transmitted too fast for the modern media, as an organisation, to compete with all people. People do not require a reporter,…

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Facebook launches file sharing

The new Facebook functionality to share and distribute files come with various restrictions. The restrictions include size (limited to 25MB), content (no executables and music) but files like pdf, music…

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Handy PostgreSQL examples

Quickly count results: Just a count - SELECT COUNT(*) from tablename Count unique entries in table: select count(columnname) from (select distinct columnname from tablename) as x; Create a new table…

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IT News roundup

Want to register .something or maybe .anythingelse and have a spare few million rands? ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) has released the intended date that the TLD…

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NewMe makes waves

Google sponsored initiative, NewMe held a demonstration at Google offices in San Francisco where they demonstrated how they developed, designed and launched new startup companies. Present at the demo were…

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it news roundup for Wednesday

Top it news story is that Twitter is refusing to deliver user data to a USA criminal court. The New York court case involves Malcolm Harris who is being criminally…

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Broadcasting on the Internet

Broadcasting is an interesting word. The 'casting' part is taken from fishing, where one casts a net the purpose of which is to catch many fish at the same time,…

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