Last week ICASA outlined its telecoms liberalisation stance and its target of forwarding amended regulations to government by 21 January 2005.

Will Telkom`s new landline SMS service be a boon to users or another costly, but watered down version of a common overseas technology?

Spammers are likely to be clogging servers well into the future.

Although we all have access to the same technology, what we do with it will be determined by personality and interest.

The Oracle mandate from PeopleSoft shareholders for the latter`s acquisition, the sell-off of Telcordia, and HP`s disappointing year-end figures dominated last week.

Solaris has traditionally had a hard time with critics, but with the launch of the latest version of the Unix operating system, Sun appears to be getting real about how to win its acceptance.

The Ubuntu distribution has had its fair share of criticism. Has all of it been fair?

If a black businessman can manipulate his political contacts to become super-rich in SA, should we see this as unethical or a milestone?

Sometimes we get so caught up in a circuitous solution for technology that doesn`t work that we forget it was supposed to make our lives easier in the first place.

Last week saw a proposed $1 billion acquisition, reporting troubles, various Microsoft legal settlements and a backlash against the sell-off of Thintana`s remaining Telkom shares.

As practical wireless applications proliferate, it is easy to get wrapped up in the wonder of it all. Greater connectivity is exciting, but is it really good for us?

One probably shouldn`t expect the open source community to agree on too much. Using Mark Shuttleworth as bait, Dot Column attempts to understand the stroppiness of this meme-type.