Last week saw immense speculation surrounding the cautionary announcements issued by Business Connexion and Bytes Technology Group.

Proving the days of software vendors dictating to market are over, Microsoft`s latest product releases are heavily slanted towards the developer community. A good thing, methinks.

Beware of speaking your mind online: there`s no back-pedalling from the consequences of an ignorant few taking a rant deadly seriously.

Telkom`s earnings per share are 10 times higher than those of British Telecom on revenue that is seven times smaller. But is Telkom really 70 times more efficient?

A virtual band giving a live performance? I`d pay good money to see that.

Connection Group is the highest ranked technology company in The Sunday Times Top100 Companies listing for this year.

IT finally appears to be subscribing to the same common sense principles as business. Why did it take so long?

Every well-meant move to grow SA`s IT skills pool seems to end up growing the pool of administrators and public servants instead.

Last week the FCC cleared two multibillion-dollar US telecommunications acquisitions.

While the Department of Communications pays lip service to the positive power of ICT, government legislation and lethargy continues to constrain its potential.

There are incredible stories in SA about money being thrown at social problems without much thought as to how the funds are actually going to be used.

The flood of quarterly results dominated the overseas ICT market last week, while the local ICT industry was extremely quiet.