This week saw Telkom workers following through on their promise to strike, and details of the e-mails aimed at removing Zuma supporters from government.

The Freecycling phenomenon in SA has sparked a question of safety: do you really want a stranger pitching up at your front door to pick up your old sofa?

Hellopeter.com has given South Africans a fantastic opportunity to air their gripes about bad service.

The delays to Microsoft`s Vista operating system and the new version of its Office software dominated international headlines last week.

The past week was characterised by a hangover from the foreign IT skills recruitment debate and criticism of ICASA over various issues.

There are few things more frustrating than software that doesn`t work properly. Surely these things are tested before being unleashed on unsuspecting users?

This week the focus is on combating phishing, the MS Vista delays, different kinds of malicious malware, and a kind of "Idols" for security geeks.

The international ICT scene was dominated by the happenings involving Vodafone. The local ICT market was extremely quiet apart from the speculation of the investments Telkom may make, a couple of sets of results and some positive trading updates.

Consumer electronics vendors have adopted the concept of a "digital lifestyle" to drive marketing campaigns, but it`s about so much more than gadgets.

Virus naming conventions, embarrassing boo-boos, OS X bug fixes and a different kind of phishing play a role in this week`s security roundup.

Women in ICT still don`t take advantage of opportunities available to them, despite the efforts by government and the private sector to open doors

Testing mitochondrial DNA can reveal all sorts of interesting things about your maternal ancestry, but sometimes people aren`t too happy with the results.