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University of Cape Town Is Looking For Full-Time Information Systems Lecturers

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The Department of Information Systems, situated in the Faculty of Commerce, is seeking to appoint up to three full-time permanent Lecturers/Senior Lecturers. The incumbents will be expected to conduct and support research, teach, have a strong work ethic and function as part of a dynamic and diverse team.

 

Key performance areas are:

  • Teaching: teach a cognate area in information systems. We are looking particularly for motivated people who can teach large classes in our service courses or have strong technical systems development skills (e.g. C# and ASP.net).
  • Research: undertake relevant research, ideally in the department’s research focus areas such as ICT and development, mobile technologies, green IS, IS education, management of IS and system development.
  • Supervision: supervise post-graduate student research projects.
  • Administration: coordinate up to two courses and serve on various committees.

 

Minimum requirements:

  • A Masters degree with progress towards a PhD in Information Systems or allied discipline.
  • Published research in at least one area of Information Systems.
  • For appointment at Senior Lecturer level:  experience in supervising postgraduate students.
  • Proven lecturing experience at a higher education institution.

 

An attractive remuneration package, including benefits will be offered. The level of the position will be determined according to the qualifications, skills, experience and research output of the successful applicant.

 

For further information regarding this position, please contact the Head of Department

Jean-Paul.VanBelle@uct.ac.za.

 

Departmental website:     (http://www.commerce.uct.ac.za/InformationSystems/)

 

Application process:

To apply, please e-mail the completed UCT Application form and all other relevant documentation as indicated on the form, to Mrs C Snyders, Staff Recruitment and Selection, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, 7700.

 

E-mail: charlotte.snyders@uct.ac.za; Telephone: +27 21 650 2192

 

The application form can also be downloaded at http://web.uct.ac.za/depts/sapweb/forms/hr201.doc.

 

 

An application which does not comply with the above requirements will be regarded as incomplete. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

 

Closing date for applications:       9 September 2011                  Reference number: SR165/11

 

UCT is committed to the pursuit of excellence, diversity and redress. Our Employment Equity Policy is available at http://hr.uct.ac.za/policies/ee.php.

 

 

The Department of Computer Science is seeking to appoint a Senior Lecturer or Associate Professor to start in 2012.

 

Requirements include:

The successful candidate should have a PhD, or expect to obtain their PhD by 2012. Candidates applying for a position at Associate Professor level should show evidence of high quality academic work in teaching, postgraduate supervision and research. Applicants for a senior lecturer post should provide clear information about their research and any teaching experience.

 

About the Job:

We seek a candidate with proven academic experience in Computer Science who will be expected to develop and teach courses, to carry out research, to contribute to departmental administration and to supervise postgraduate students in their area of specialisation. Our BSc and Honours degrees are accredited by the British Computer Society and we have a large cohort of MSc and PhD students. The Department hosts the UCT Centre in ICT for Development, and also specialises in telecommunications, visual computing, high-performance computing, digital libraries, artificial intelligence and security. Candidates whose fields are compatible with these research groups are encouraged to apply. The department values diversity amongst its staff and students.

The annual remuneration packages, including benefits for 2011 are as follows:

 

? Senior Lecturer: R544 188

? Associate Professor: R622 712

Application process:

 

To apply, please e-mail the completed UCT Application form and all other relevant documentation as indicated on the form, to Ms Zulile Ncayiyana, Staff Recruitment and Selection, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, 7700.

 

E-mail: zulile.ncayiyana@uct..ac.za; Telephone: +27 21 650 3003; Department website: www.cs.uct.ac.za

The application form can also be downloaded at http://web.uct.ac.za/depts/sapweb/forms/hr201.doc.

 

An application which does not comply with the above requirements will be regarded as incomplete.

Reference number for this position: SR137/11

Closing date for applications: 22 August 2011

 

UCT is committed to the pursuit of excellence, diversity and redress. Our Employment Equity Policy is available at http://hr.uct.ac.za/policies/ee.php.

 

EV Rechargeable Battery Market To Reach $54 Billion By 2020, Says IHS iSuppli

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The global market for rechargeable batteries in electric vehicles (EV) is expected to reach new heights in the next 10 years, growing to $54 billion by 2010, up from $35 billion in 2010, says IHS iSuppli.

By 2015, lithium-ion batteries will be the leading technology occupying 55 percent of the market. Lead-acid will have 31 percent of the market, NiMH batteries will be 6 percent of the market and 1 percent will be NaS batteries.

Looking ahead to 2020, lithium-ion will only gain in its lead over the other battery technologies taking market share away from lead-acid batteries while NiMH and NaS will maintain roughly the same presence in the market.

Lithium-ion batteries will grow in demand with automotive applications. The main commercial driver will be the need for aggressive cost reductions while maintaining safety. The cost of lithium-ion rechargeable batteries is much higher than any other. However,  the research notes that prices will need to drop 50 percent in order to achieve widespread market adoption.

The significant cost reductions should be possible through volume production and material improvements. As a result, lithium-ion batteries could become less expensive than standard lead-acid equivalents by 2020, concludes the study.

The World Wide Web Celebrated Its 20th Year Anniversary Last Saturday

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Last Saturday was the 20th anniversary of the World Wide Web  as it became a publicly available service on the internet.  On August 6 1991, Tim Berners-Lee (now Sir), posted a short summary of the World Wide Web project on the alt.hypertext newsgroup. The message read:  “The WWW project aims to allow all links to be made to any information anywhere.”

 

The web of the last twenty years has since evolved. Many new policies are on rise to actually cripple the web. Think of the plan for a tier internet traffic which has the potential to enable telecommunication companies to control data throughput for their legacy customers. The open web structure was the major reason it was widely adopted and which consequently lead to a digital economy.

 

Previously the web was used to allow physicists at the CERN physics laboratory to share data, news and documentation, but Berners-Lee’s post released the technology to the general public.

 

By making the web openly available and royalty free, it quickly advanced to a globally used service, no longer the secret of the technologically minded. In the 20 years that followed, the web has become a daily part of modern life. The late 1990s and 2000s saw the boom and subsequent bust of dot-com businesses.

 

Sites such as Amazon and eBay were some of the few to survive. Since then, the web has grown further and is now included on most new phones and televisions. The ability to access email and other web services through mobile phones has proved unbelievably successful, with many now addicted to their smart phones.
In 2008 mobile access to the web exceeded desktop-computer-based access for the first time. John Domingue of the Open University predicted the future of the web:

 

“I see a number of trends and influences in the future of the web. “Five billion people are on the web on mobile devices, the dominant device will be the smart phone rather than the laptop.” Domingue also warned of the dangers in the fast advancing web services: “One problem that may arise in the future of the web will be privacy.  “This is already a problem for a number of sites that will only worsen as technology advances.”

 

However, the consensus appears to be that the only way forward for the web is upwards. Sir Berners-Lee may never have guessed what would become of the message he posted on a forum 20 years ago but there is no doubt that the web will continue to expand beyond any expectations in the next 20.

 

One thing is certain. The internet of today will indeed evolve to something more than linking computers to a platform for living. Human systems could become extensions of the web and in the next 20 years, we will all be altered.

Cynamix Is A New Nigerian Online Social Community

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Nigeria has a new social media website to spend time, meet people and socialize. Facebook, take note. This one seems to look clean and neat. It was built on Joomla and we hope it  stays stable when it begins to get popular. Cynamix is the new deal in town. We got to know about it via a Facebook invitation  to Tekedia that read in part as:

I’d like 2 invite u 2 Join cynamix.net a Nigerian social community where you can meet guys and babes also looking to meet people. Share photos and videos, music, games, application, downloads, free browsing tweaks and forum discussions and many more. It’s really great. Join 2day @ http://www.facebook.com/l/hAQCU6dd2AQDRtOdInaHHdxt5iotcF3VhR0OSp1ue30Knjw/www.cynamix.net Regards

The good part of this website is the formation of groups feature. It has four main product offerings to people that join and they are:

  • Connect and expand your network
  • View profiles and add new friends
  • Share your photos and videos
  • Create your own group or join others

Increasingly people are noticing that if any entrepreneur can build something local and differentiated from Facebook, there is still an opportunity in social media networks. Despite the arrival of Google+ with already huge juggernaut of Facebook, a highly differentiated website can still succeed. It must offer not just social interaction but possibly something like local social commerce all integrated. It  will have a news interface that constantly provides local contents. Anyone that does that at the local level, according to experts, has a chance. We hope Cynamix will do just that.

Fasmicro Apps Store Spotlight – ClearSync From ClearSync Ltd. Enjoy An Integrated Calendars And Contacts Solution

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This app is available at Fasmicro Apps Store, courtesy of ClearSync,. You can upload your good apps in our store, also.

 

An integrated multiple calendars and contacts solution for Android, PCs, the web, other smartphones. Share calendars and contacts lists with anyone. Create groups with which you share calendar events and contacts, and updates sync automatically throughout the group. The multiple views, color-coding and smooth scrolling and swiping make ClearSync not only practical but elegant. Sync Clear with ClearSync.

 

Additional features:
– Day, week, month, agenda views in calendars
– Touch an event to edit; touch a day to navigate
– Alphabetical views or category views in contacts
– Set up one or multiple groups and share different calendars to different groups: work teams, families, sports teams, classes or religious groups. You decide which calendars you share with whom, and the color coding helps you keep track of different types of events. See your kids’ activity and academic events on your phone.
– Put events on multiple calendars, not copies of those events. Updates are reflected on every calendar.
– Integrated operation: from a contact screen create a phone appointment with clickable phone number right in your event, or an appointment with a one-click mappable address right in the appointment.
– Select the themed color scheme and text size that is right for you.
– Publish a web widget for calendar events to keep your group’s web site up to date automatically.
– Assign read and write permissions to the calendars and contact lists you share, or keep the details of youra ctivities private.

 

Coming Soon:
– ClearSync to Outlook: in Beta, email us to try it out.
– Google Sync: email us to be notified when Beta is available.
– Tasks: under Development, email us to be notified when availability schedule is determined.

For more details, go to: www.clearsync.com

And if you have any problems, suggestions or questions please email us at: support@clearsync.zendesk.com

 

Permissions

Network communication –  full Internet access

Your personal information – read contact data, write contact data

Your account – acts as an account authenticator, manage the accounts list

Services that cost you money –  directly call phone numbers

System tools – prevent phone from sleeping, write sync settings

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