A recent research by the South African Competition Commission (SACC) has revealed that major banks in Southern Africa are milking off customers through unjustifiable chunks of high charges. An African Business article about the same research further reports that these banks use complex fee structures to abuse their market power.

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A few days ago, Mashable published 35 online tools for teachers, tutors and students. After going through the list, for obvious reasons, I got so interested in online teaching and tutoring jobs. I have been tutoring high school as well University students on private basis for sometime now. Sometime next year, after I make tangible [...]

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One of these days, I happened to search for “fuzzy logic” on wikipedia and I was amazed to find out that they cite another researcher, R.H. Wilkinson, in stead of the well known Lotfi Zadeh, as the author of the first paper on fuzzy logic. Wikipedia says:
The first paper on Fuzzy Logic (defined as a [...]

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I have good news from South Africa for those aspiring for higher degrees and research in ICT.The Meraka Institute, which is managed by the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research in Pretoria, South Africa, is offering studentships and internships in the following programs:

Human Language Technology (HLT) Research Group
Knowledge Systems Research Group (KSG)
High Performance Computing (HPC) [...]

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Towards the end of last month, I attended the Nsima party which took place at the Hiroo JICA office here in Tokyo. This party was organized by the Malawi Society of Japan in liaison with the Malawi Embassy  to commemorate Malawi’s independence day, 6 July. The Malawi Society of Japan, which was created in 1983, [...]

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Colleagues, I am kinda confused here. I am trying to find out the de facto Wireless Sensor Network Simulator. I have done a lot of searching on the Internet with very limited success. The more I search, the greater the number of new simulators that pop up. At some point, I landed on Tranh Minh [...]

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