When the Rules Don't Work
The past few years have seen massive accounting scandals and corporate frauds. In order to protect shareholders, mounds of new legislation have been implemented. The key one is the Sarbannes-Oxley Act in the USA, which has had the effect of adding substantial cost and...
When the Rules Don’t Work
The past few years have seen massive accounting scandals and corporate frauds. In order to protect shareholders, mounds of new legislation have been implemented. The key one is the Sarbannes-Oxley Act in the USA, which has had the effect of adding substantial cost and...
In demand
One of the growing forces that is contributing to the talent wars in South Africa is “demand�. We know that Xers in their early careers aim to increase their marketability by building a portfolio as opposed to a CV. Bigger packages, flexible hours, freedom and the...
More grandparents raising children
One of the major problems of the AIDS epidemic in Africa (and soon in Asia, Russia, China and India, too), is that it hits the middle age people most (mainly because in Africa, AIDS is sexually transmitted between heterosexuals). This has the effect of removing...
MI6 online
A sign of the times.... ? The British Government Secret Intelligence Service, known as MI6, has today launched a website - http://www.mi6.gov.uk. They don't give any secrets away (doh) - check out the FAQ, where they won't say how much budget they have, how many...
Futuristic Qualification
While many of us speculate, comment and muse on the future, there is a 50/50 chance we could be right, more likely an 80/20 chance we could be wrong, who predicted blogging would be so big?, or that the web would become so pervasive or even, more sinister, who could...
Australia changes its Labour Laws
This week, the Liberal Australian government has started a massive public awareness campaign for its new labour law revisions, entitled: WorkChoices (read about it at the Labour Party's website). Its about putting power into the hands of the average worker, and giving...
Can open-source go mainstream
TomorrowToday.biz uses SugarCRM software. After exploring many options that cost real money to but, we came accross this free open source version. We're reading about Open Source all the time, and the big challenge is, 'can opensource establish a sustainable business...
Knysna to go Wi-Fi
Knysna is poised to become the first South African town to become fully WiFi connected, with the signing of five-year deal with wireless ISP UniNet.
Rocket Racing League
Calling all guys!! Tired of Formula 1? Think that A1 racing is a good thing, but possibly just more of the same? Then, get ready for the greatest racing formula yet... In just under a year's time, the Rocket Racing League takes off. Literally. It will involve...
What on earth is Google doing?
If you're plugged into current tech news you know the stories around Google taking on Microsoft with net based applications. They're also taking on Skype with Google Talk. And now have plans to offer free wireless access to San Fransisco. Yes that's the entire city....
India is coming…
For those of you who are unaware of it, India is on the rise. I saw this first hand when visiting there recently. Not only is the fact that on average, the Indian guys are reasonably well educated, the also tend to work hard. While chatting to some local Indian guys at the hotel I stayed at, they were saying that they earn on average R$7500 (Rupees) per month (Approx R 1200)
Here’s your chance to decide what’s on TV
London - A television drama set in Britain's urban music scene aims to explore new territory in broadcasting by letting viewers choose how the plot develops. The six-part Dubplate Drama, to be shown on Britain's Channel 4 in November, will invite viewers to vote by...
Here's your chance to decide what's on TV
London - A television drama set in Britain's urban music scene aims to explore new territory in broadcasting by letting viewers choose how the plot develops. The six-part Dubplate Drama, to be shown on Britain's Channel 4 in November, will invite viewers to vote by...
Democracy comes to China
Screaming fans and SMS votelines are more popularly associated with the crazy Western nations who regularly run "Pop Idols" as it was first branded in the UK) and their spin off shows (such as "American Idol" and South African "Idols"). But now its China's turn (see...
They should pay me to watch their movie
A few weeks ago, my wife and I went to the movies (not as easy as it sounds with three pre-school children at home). We saw "The Island" - a fairly good futuristic thriller about cloning (although it bugs me that future visions of disaster always outdo future visions...
Beyond National Pride
I was at my daughetr's school this morning to watch a small play on the Creation (armed with torch and yellow T-shirt, she was part of Day One - when light was created). One of her classmates was wearing a black T-shirt (night), but what got me was the logo on it:...
Volvo Concept car – for women?
I found this post ( http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/050914/lawfns2.html?.v=1) on Volvo presenting it’s first ever car designed by women. My first thought was ‘At last! Someone’s done it’, but as I read through the article I couldn’t shake a nagging thought. We...
The Future Bank Blog gets it
I think BlogMaps - where blogs meet maps - are fantastic tools (thanks to FeedMap.net for the free service). Using BlogMap you can geo-code your blog using ordinary geographical coordinates, browse already geo-coded blogs and search for blogs. It is a great way to...
A Whole New Mind: Moving from the Information Age to the Conceptual Age
Every now & then a book comes out that corroborates certain facets of the TomorrowToday.biz message. Daniel H. Pink a former White House speech writer has recently released a book that he spent several years researching. The books deals with what he calls the...