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Globalization's discontents

I'm back from Africa, and what a trip it has been. Ghana was certainly a marked contrast to Zimbabwe. You would never mistake Ghana for a rich country, though compared to Zimbabwe, it is positively affluent. People are poor, but the roads are filled with cars, the stores are filled...

Tags: Immigrant, Africa, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Ghana, Globalization, Government, Recruitment & Selection, Strategy, Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, John Carroll

Blog posts 2008-05-22

Greetings from Lesotho

It's amazing how dependent we become on technology.  Internet access and a working mobile phone are something that most westerners now take for granted.  When they are gone, however, you feel oddly disconnected.  You can't pop online to check news.  You can't check email.  Without a working mobile phone, you...

Tags: Phone, Mobile, Zimbabwe, Zimbabwean, Telecom & Utilities, John Carroll

Blog posts 2008-05-13

Flight Simulator 2004: A Century of Flight Adventures Over Zimbabwe Plan (zip)

This is a custom flight plan for Flight Simulator 2004 that takes you over Zimbabwe. Piloting tourists, you must find the most majestic views and fly low to appease your passengers.

Tags: Zimbabwe

Software downloads 2004-06-06

Pocket PCs Help UN Survey Food Needs in Zimbabwe Faster and With Greater Accuracy

The World Food Programme WFP is fighting the worst food crisis in Southern Africa since 1992, when a devastating drought hit the region. In Zimbabwe, WFP's survey team, including many locally-recruited staff, used a Pocket PC-based solution to collect and store their assessment data. The Personal Digital Assistants PDAs collected...

Tags: Food, PC, Microsoft Corp., Zimbabwe, World Food Programme, Pocket PC, Handhelds, Food & Beverage, Operating Systems, Hardware, Manufacturing, Software

Case studies

CFI Retail in Zimbabwe Overhauls Accounting System, Improves Productivity, Saves Costs

CFI Retail, a leader in the farming retail sector in Zimbabwe, needed to replace its disparate legacy head office mainframe accounting system with an integrated one that could link all branches and offer high levels of reliability, scalability, and flexibility, as well as having advanced reporting capabilities. The old system...

Tags: Accounting, Microsoft Corp., Accounting System, Zimbabwe, Operational Accounting, Financial Services, Finance

Case studies

Additional Resources

Homeschooling + marketing = great coffee?

I really love coffee. Not Folgers or Maxwell House, but the good stuff. My current favorite is Dean's Beans' "Ahab's Revenge" (with "the highest caffeine content of any organic coffee!"), but there are few things that make me happier than a really good cup of coffee. ...

Tags: Coffee, Scout Hunt, Marketing Research, Operational Accounting, Financial Services, Marketing, Finance, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-07-21

Canucks freaking over Rogers iPhone rates

Canucks freaking over Rogers iPhone ratesYou should see how much Rogers charges for cableThey do like their high prices. With the Canadian market being only 10% of the size of the US market, the level of competition between sellers is not the same as the US.For that matter, you should...

Tags: Cellular phones, Rogers, Rogers iPhone, Canucks, Apple iPhone

Discussion threads 2008-06-28

Spam attack shut downs Marshall Islands email service

Marshall Islands National Telecommunications Authority is reporting that a sustained spamming attack during the past 24 hours managed to cause a successful Denial of Service attack on the email services of the islands only Internet Service Provider. More info on the attack : More...

Tags: Internet Service Provider, Spamming, Attack, Email Service, Marshall Islands National Telecommunications Authority, E-mail, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Security, Online Communications, Internet, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2008-06-24

Psystar: Go-to-jail-free card

Psystar: Go-to-jail-free cardI Don't Think It's THAT Easy ....Hopefully this is a high-profile enough scam that the FBI will actually do something about it.For instance, Best Price Cameras has been scamming online buyers for years (at least since late 2004). They don't want your money, just your cc info. A...

Tags: Psystar, card

Discussion threads 2008-04-17

Microsoft wasting no time rejoicing in its OOXML win

Microsoft wasting no time rejoicing in its OOXML winLong live the Microsoft Zimbabwe standardIn recognition of ISO adoption of IS 29500 it will hence forth be formally known ans the Zimbabwe stand.Microsoft vote riggers sorry I mean keen standards followers were quoted as saying "we learnt all about ballot...

Tags: ISO standards, Process improvement, Sanity, Microsoft Corp., OOXML

Discussion threads 2008-04-01

UNESCO backs out as group names Internet Enemies

Today is Online Free Expression Day, a Reporters Without Borders (Reporters Sans Frontieres, or RSF) event that was to have been sponsored by UNESCO. But the free speech organization revealed today that UNESCO backed out. We were notified...

Tags: Borders Books & Music, UNESCO, Internet, Government, Vertical Industries, Enterprise Software, Software, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-03-12

CIA: Cyberattack caused multiple-city blackout

CIA: Cyberattack caused multiple-city blackoutlet me be the first to say......ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US!And many don't think it is a real problem!It is like 9/11. Until it happens in the U.S. the reality will continue to be ignored, or dismissed as unlikely.SHENANIGANS!What great timing for "hackers"...

Tags: Hacking, SECURITY, Socialism, CIA, blackout, multiple-city blackout, cyberattack

Discussion threads 2008-01-22

OLPC's XO Laptop hits mass production

OLPC's XO Laptop hits mass productionAre there any orders?Or are they hoping someone buys them?Rugged, low power data loggerThis thing would make an ideal data logger for one of the projects that I'm working on. I'm going to try to convince my boss to purchase one.RE: OLPC's XO Laptop...

Tags: Uruguay, XO-laptop, One Laptop Per Child project, Milly, No_Ax

Discussion threads 2007-11-06

Sat images show village burning, relocation in Burma

Satellite images show that the government of Burma -- which it calls Myanmar -- has been destroying villages and relocating people in the countryside over the past year, The Washington Post reports. The American Association for the Advancement of Science reported that images collected over the past year...

Tags: Satellite, Image, Relocation, Network Technology, Networking, ZDNet Government

Blog posts 2007-09-28

Jewel Quest 2 (Mac) (zip)

Jewel Quest 2 mac is a story of adventure, love and betrayal. Join Professor Pack in this sequel on the ultimate jewel matching quest across the world's richest continent. Rearrange precious relics to turn tiles into gold as you advance through relentlessly challenging puzzles. The wilds of the safari, the...

Tags: Quest, Apple Macintosh, Adventure, Desktops, Hardware

Software downloads 2007-09-24

Silicon Valley goes dark again

Silicon Valley goes dark againEuropeans are afflicted with same diseaseEuropeans are afflicted with same disease, it’s called NIMBY Not in my back yard.Ironically the French are there to bail them out Nuclear power.Socialist Republic of CaliYou nailed it George, people cant have it both ways. Im all for new...

Tags: Government, uranium, Now IT

Discussion threads 2007-06-22

Does YouTube really help children in Africa?

YouTube's King Hurley is determined to truly merit the world worship he receives. From Davos World Economic Forum to the U.S. Congress, Chad is universally celebrated as a world hero and he is regularly solicited as a beacon shining for the betterment of the world's fuure.In U.S. Government to YouTube: WOW! But ‘Take that stuff down' I...

Tags: Google, YouTube

Blog posts 2007-05-30

Clarifying my comments to the BBC

Clarifying my comments to the BBCI don't care.....what they say. I think you rule! :-)Code of Conduct for Bloggers in UnncessaryI agree with Denise that the laws guiding what bloggers can and cannot do are codified and well litigated. Bloggers are not journalists - which is why we go...

Tags: Policies and procedures, Blogging, Uganda, British Broadcasting Corp.

Discussion threads 2007-03-30

Jewel Quest 2 (exe)

Africa - 1944. Join Professor Pack on the ultimate jewel matching adventure across the world's richest continent. Rearrange precious relics to turn tiles into gold as you advance through relentlessly challenging puzzles. The wilds of the safari, the history of the Zimbabwe ruins, and the majesty of Victoria Falls await...

Tags: Treasure, Africa

Software downloads 2007-03-02

Declaring war on botnets

This mornings New York Times carried a John Markoff article on the growing threat of zombie networks. Internet crimes are on the increase and botnets, large networks of computers that have been compromised by hackers and turned to the hackers purposes are increasingly the tool of choice. ...

Tags: General, Security, Web Technology, Polls, Linux, Microsoft, botnet, computer, Internet

Blog posts 2007-01-08