The SCO/Linux saga is beginning to resemble our own Mac-and-Mo show for all the amusement value and bluster.

Returning to work recalls childhood fantasies of nationwide destruction that would, hopefully, keep us out of school.

Outsourcing has been a buzz word in the IT industry since the mid 1990`s as corporations have returned to their key businesses and have realised that certain services are better handled by someone else.

The ICT sector is expected to start spending again in 2004, which should bring some semblance of 'normality` returning to this sector - a welcome relief after another tough year.

Tax is the real equaliser of economic activity, so isn`t it time that government used this to help small black-owned companies to empower themselves and grow the economy naturally?

Sometimes I think that our government departments have no clue as to what they are doing, and sometimes I think that maybe they do - both thoughts are equally frightening.

For everyone who is stuck in the office this December, here are a couple of sites to keep you entertained without having to resort to the endless cigarette break.

The resignation of Andile Ngcaba, director-general of the Department of Communications, had everyone in the industry talking last week.

After almost six months of speculation, DoC director general Andile Ngcaba has decided to go into business for himself - a move that some may argue, should have happened sooner rather than later.

Many companies in the industry started out by choosing names that they probably regret now, given that the state of the art or their own business strategies overtook them.

Drop the ball, quaff the cider; the age-old feud between journos and PRs comes to a head.

There are many little advances in technology that have the ability to alter our behaviour, because of their apparent insignificance.

Last week saw the Pretoria High Court`s decision to set aside a partial award made to US systems company Telcordia in its legal dispute with Telkom.