Wanting to develop SA as an outsourcing destination is all good and well, but it appears success is largely dependent on government`s contribution. So what`s taking so long?

It is difficult to quantify the value of lost opportunities, disappointment and discouragement that JS Mpanza Primary School suffered when its IT lab failed to function.

It is very odd that when a country was on a major terror alert, it let a known bomber waltz through its borders.

Lenovo`s profits following its acquisition of IBM`s PC division, which never made a profit while in IBM hands, stole much of the international ICT space during a quiet week.

The local ICT market was dominated last week by the row between ICASA and Telkom SA over ADSL pricing.

The enormous potential of RFID rests on its use of globally unique identification numbers, but will the technology`s greatest strength prove to be its greatest weakness?

Last week saw a host of quarterly losses reported by most of the major Japanese technology players and others.

It`s been a long time coming, but two vendor shows this week indicate that software may be finally starting to fit business, not the other way around.

SA`s early 3G adopters are finding their new babies as promising and temperamental as real infants.

Last week saw Business Objects, Cisco and Microsoft make acquisitions.

How serious are the ICT empowerment charter players about meeting deadlines?

In America, when someone gets an exorbitant utilities bill, it makes front-page news. Here, the council won`t even acknowledge it`s wrong.