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		<title>Effects of a recession on IT departments</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Apr 2025 07:47:35 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[You should also URGENTLY READ this During periods of economic downturn, there is no money. South Africa is entering recession and possibly a depression. To prepare for this you need to take stock of all software licensing fees. You have to start reducing ALL expenditure on American Software Licensing to as close to R0 as [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>URGENT WARNING</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Apr 2025 12:53:14 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[South Africa CAN COLLAPSE as a country, please read below and please THINK for yourself. This post is a National Emergency Post and immediate action is required from South Africans. (what can you do? &#8211; Spread the word! Start using Open Source products for critical applications) If you do not take immediate action South Africa [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>AngloGold Ashanti Appoints Marcelo Godoy as Chief Technology Officer</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Sep 2021 07:52:52 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[AngloGold Ashanti is pleased to announce the appointment of Marcelo Godoy as Chief Technology Officer, effective November 1st, 2021. Marcelo joins from Newmont Corporation, where he is currently Senior Vice President, Exploration. He joined Newmont in 2012 as Group Executive in Technical Services and was promoted to Vice President, Resource Evaluation and Mine Planning in [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Google Search updates the way it works and the service it offers</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 May 2021 09:34:28 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In the past day, Google stopped offering some of it&#8217;s users any service, by forcing users to enable all javascript. The writer is still evaluating all the different changes, but client side, here is one important one as it relates to privacy and security: So, if you do not enable Javascript, you can today not [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Mark Cuban purchases Democracy.com</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Nov 2019 09:57:19 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[According to the New York Times, Mark Cuban purchased Democracy.com &#8211; The NYT reported that Mark Cuban purchased the domain name: “to make sure someone didn’t do something crazy with it.” In South Africa (and Africa in general) small business does not pay proper attention to BRANDING. Yet, a brand name is probably one of [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Is your domain name protected against email spoofing?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Oct 2019 06:26:31 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Over 90% of South African Companies do not have adequate anti cybercrime protection for their co.za domain names. a Quick dig @1000 co.za random company domain names result in over 90% (912) providing limited or no anti fraud, anti spoofing and anti cybercrime protection! So few South African companies are protecting their domains against email [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>co.za Domain Space UPDATE</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Sep 2019 07:58:44 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Get information about co.za domain name owner or registrant The ZACR company has made available a PROATIA Request from, FORM C, in terms PAIA, where anyone can request information about co.za domain name So, you can download the form by clicking on the link above, complete the form and if there are any fee&#8217;s due, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>ZA Domain Space Crisis</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Sep 2019 04:02:41 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Do you even know who owns your co.za domain name? Can you verify it independently? (Answer: No) Can you check your own domain name at the central registry yourself? (Answer: No) Can you pay anyone to independently verify your domain registration? (Answer: No) But, there are laws about that though? (Answer: No) Okay, but at [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>noreply@</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Aug 2019 13:25:20 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Have you noticed how some companies think that they are simply too big to care? Some companies call &#8220;communication&#8221; the one way rubbish they &#8220;Blast&#8221; out from noreply@ and text messages from long non existent numbers. So, not communicating but attacking some randomly submitted email address and/or phone number. But, that is not where the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Sweat Shops</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Aug 2019 05:51:10 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[History teaches us that during the Industrial revolution workers were treated very poorly.  As the 4th Industrial Revolution becomes mainstream (and crawls further into it&#8217;s decline), history is repeating itself. In a recent news article, the 4th Industrial revolution sweat shops are featured. Where workers work for pennies per hour, just to be happy to [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>4th Industrial Revolution</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Aug 2019 04:54:55 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The 4th Industrial revolution is the Internet. If you understand that, then you know that the fourth industrial revolution started in the late 1960s. And, if you understand that, then you know that the fourth industrial revolution reached it&#8217;s heights around 2008. From 2009 onwards, the disruption started on a downwards spiral as disruption itself, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Huawei reveals new Open Source Operating system: Harmony</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Aug 2019 05:22:01 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Huawei has revealed that they will release their own open source operating system called HARMONY. This means that the source code of Harmony will be available to anyone (no secrets) and anyone will be able to add, edit or change the operating system code. According to Huawei, they have also implimented distributed architecture and distributed [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Should I buy an SSD or HDD</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Aug 2019 07:12:41 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I recently heard a very cool IT joke. It goes like this: Question: What is the difference between a used car salesperson and a computer/IT sales person? Answer: The used car salesperson knows that they are lying. You need to make a decision between HDD and SDD, but you are not sure about all the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Understanding Major Digital Disruption</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Aug 2019 05:06:12 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Understanding major digital disruption and managing the changes caused by digital transformation starts by &#8220;following the money&#8221;. This guide is a series of posts to assist businesses to understand and make sense of technological changes. There are hundreds of experts using terminology like &#8220;AI&#8221; and &#8220;IoT&#8221; and &#8220;Cloud&#8221; and how the world will be shaped [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Cybertools</title>
		<link>https://it-web.co.za/cybertools/</link>
		
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2019 07:29:22 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Does your cybertools control you or do you control your cybertools? It is an interesting question and you will probably be surprised at the answer. The answer is that the average person is being controlled by their cybertools. The impact of social influence is completely underestimated, both by the average person as well as in [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>South African Government Hacked</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Nov 2018 05:23:11 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Multiple confirmed reports of scams and criminal activity originating from the Department of Justice has been received, verified and confirmed. More technical information below this report. Recipients received the following from the Department of Justice email SERVERS (more than one): +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Hi I wish to let you know that as you read this, I have [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Molecular neuromorphic computing device discovered</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Aug 2018 05:16:31 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Reservoir computing devices are predicted as the next-generation artificial intelligence. Scientists developing  neuromorphic chips (silicon based chips that mimic brain structure) has, up to now, not been able to replicate the action of nerve impulses (spikes) to mimic the human brain. Under the leadership of Megumi Akai-Kasaya, a group of researchers from Kyushu Institute of Technology [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>More bad news for users as yet another Intel CPU Security issue is exposed</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Aug 2018 12:54:01 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[After Spectre and the Spectre NG (Next generation Spectre), where exploits saw passwords and other data leaked from memory, one would have mistakenly thought that NG would have been the last of the related security vulnerabilities. Dr Christian Rossow published a paper detailing a new &#8216;inverse&#8217; predictability attack. The security flaw relates to the return [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>PC Shipments Grew For the First Time in Six Years</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jul 2018 05:02:54 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In US News, the research and consulting vendor, Gartner published the numbers of US PC shipments, by vendor for the second quarter of 2018. Quoted from the release: &#8220;Worldwide PC shipments totaled 62.1 million units in the second quarter of 2018, a 1.4 percent increase from the second quarter of 2017, according to preliminary results [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>SDA New Specification 985MB/sec up to 128TB SD Cards possible</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jun 2018 06:06:19 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The SD Association has released SD Express specification, which they call &#8220;a Revolutionary Innovation for SD Memory Cards&#8221;  From the press release: &#8220;The PCle interface delivering a 985 megabytes per second (MB/s) maximum data transfer rate&#8221; and &#8220;the maximum storage capacity in SD memory cards grows from 2TB with SDXC, to 128TB with the new [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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