Gaming on broadband Internet and smelly wartime butter share a similarity: they both offer a viable solution while ignoring the legacy-packages carried by their "products".

We should not fool ourselves: the recent international financial scandals will have some local impact, as we are now part of the global community.

With the range of collaboration tools available, and the existing communications infrastructure taken into account, I`m surprised not more countries are involved in producing feature-rich merchandising for this year`s Commonwealth Games.

Technology is synonymous with innovation, invention and hype, but often the most interesting devices are made by users intent on making appliances that suit their needs, rather than by corporate-sponsored development labs.

The next wave of computing will be the convergence of biology and IT - this is the view of IBM`s Nicholas Donofrio, senior VP of technology and manufacturing.

It`s spam time - do you know what your affiliates are doing?

A smidgen of paranoia in the workplace may provide a much-needed competitive-edge.

Sun increasingly seems to be betting that open source is its key to crushing its arch-enemy and this time, it may just be right.

Dimension Data has had a tough time lately. Among other things, the share price on the JSE has lost almost 55% since the beginning of the year.

Customer relationship management (CRM) can help provide a solution for those companies that lose valuable man-hours to cyberskiving.

Last week saw boardroom "squabbles" at Comparex, and further developments in the DataMirror/Idion takeover saga.

With a public private partnership in the pipeline, Europe`s largest science and technology organisation is set to receive more of the limelight than it has in the past.

Sometimes it is easy to forget that it is the basics and not the flashy graphical interfaces that make Linux so appealing.