Telkom posted good annual results last week, with revenue up a little over 10% but attributable profit up 36%.

Hitting the headlines this week was Telkom`s impressive financial results, and a successful NGN deployment in Uganda.

This week, employers are reading e-mails, the ransomware Trojan is cracked, a spammer sees the error of his ways, Mozilla fixes Firefox and MS soups up Vista against attack.

Registering prepaid cellphone users will probably have a muted long-term impact on the economy and fighting crime, while inconveniencing companies and individuals. However, we do need it.

My brother`s birthday is coming up and I can`t figure out what to get a 21-year-old these days.

Microsoft appears to be getting real about competition in the operating system space, but will Vista save the day or will it be too little, too late?

Flawed anti-virus software, anti-spyware that blackmails, and attacks that hold personal files for ransom - the world of information security is everything but dull.

Hitting the headlines this week was an Internet banking scam, and the cellular operators losing their RICA fight in Parliament.

The lack of closure on the Vodacom-Cell C quarrel leaves an unsatisfied feeling that nothing has been learnt from it.

Last week saw Australia`s Babcock & Brown acquire Eircom, Ireland`s dominant telecommunications company, for lb2.4 billion.

This week a new flaw affects Microsoft Word, a worm exploits instant messaging, spammers get scammed and a billing phisher gets jailed for 21 months.

Is government considering setting up its own competitor to Telkom? A careful read of minister of communications Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri`s budget speech implies this is so.

Hitting the headlines this week was a cellular war-of-words, and an exposure of internal wrangling at SARS, writes Dave Glazier.