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ITWeb`s best-read stories of 2004

Staff Writer
By Staff Writer, ITWeb
Johannesburg, 15 Dec 2004

From hackers re-opening a stolen code store, to the legalisation of VOIP, these were the best-read stories on ITWeb this year.

All stories

Hackers re-open stolen code store
Java`s skills gap
IT salaries at a glance
Cisco flaw warning
Yankee Linux findings rigged too
An up and down year for IT folk
Where the money is
Mass adoption of OSS coming
Money can`t buy you Ubuntu
VOIP to be legal at last

Features

Strategic planning for SMEs
Killer on the loose
IT training: Righting the imbalance
BEE in IT: Clashes ahead?
Offshore outsourcing: A potential gold mine
B2B: Is there life out there?
Cooking up a new flavour of
Pie in the sky?
Noting a desktop future
Looking for Ms Right

Business

Telecoms banquet derailed
Naspers points a finger at Telkom
Ngcaba to head DiData`s BEE consortium
SITA awards R2.5bn seat management tender
Vodacom, Vodafone in global partnership
IT harnessed in kidnap case
Tiscali 'not abandoning SA`
Private industry to solve billing crisis
President`s advisory council meets again
BEE Charter first draft provides framework

Financial

All eyes on SARS project
The all-seeing SARS
What Telkom pays its CEO
Online to close
The Van der Laans quit CS Holdings
M-Web buys Tiscali SA for R320m
DiData reshuffles board
Reunert, Worldwide Africa probe CSH
Datatec buys US company
DiData`s BEE deal worth R380m

Internet

MyDoom.F, other worms loose
Zero-day may be imminent, says Symantec
MSN worm does rounds
Users not buying Sentech`s 'excuses`
Rumba to offer ISDN at R49 a month
Hi to MyDoom
True uncapped ADSL a reality?
Google steals a page from Amazon`s book search
MyDoom just got worse
LottoFun user wins R5m

Telecoms

VOIP to be legal at last
Vodacom to take on Sentech, Telkom
Telecoms report slams Telkom
Anti-Sentech sentiment increasing
Sentech threatens legal action
Telkom to reduce call prices
Legal threat to Skype users
Telkom makes 'last mile` wireless
Sentech promises to do better
Vodacom, MTN in race to 3G

Computing

Hackers re-open stolen code store
Cisco flaw warning
Getting tough with spammers
Survey: Mac OS X most secure, Linux least
Making hotspots secure
The figures behind US jobs going offshore
80% of infected PC users unaware - study
Novell offer to undercut Microsoft
Symantec issues new worm warning
Zafi.B worm threat upgraded

Networking

Sniffing out wireless hackers
Network optimisation equals ROI
UUNet unveils wireless access solution
Multi-protocol Cisco network for Storm
Convergence equals trade-off
Re-routing SMMEs
Cisco`s Linksys enters SA
Taipei plans city-wide WiFi by end-2005
Group to propose new high-speed wireless format
New NAS for SMEs

Hardware

Apple to ship iPod minis worldwide on 24 July
Nintendo unveils new handheld, next console coming
Sony debuts 20GB Walkman to silence iPod
Intel cancels top-speed Pentium 4 chip
AOL to sell cheap PCs to minorities, seniors
Nokia to launch new phones, but buzz lacking
Latest iPod baby arrives
Nokia unveils three new camera phones
IBM says its supercomputer is world`s fastest
Cisco claims Guinness record

Software

Java`s skills gap
Yankee Linux findings rigged too
Mass adoption of OSS coming
Money can`t buy you Ubuntu
W95 can still outdo some Linux, says commentator
National support for Novell users
Furore over OS security survey
Surprising forecast for Linux
SA joins LinuxWorld
Open source a disruptive technology, says Novell

Enterprise

Online security device wins SABS award
The future lies in BPM, says CSC
Reducing storage risk
Minister urges indigenous ICT
Wits updates 20-year-old system
SAP targets SMEs with Business One
Mamelodi opens digital door
WCape pins hopes on outsourcing
CA looks to better future
NetWeaver roadshow comes to SA

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