Last week saw the Federal Trade Commission clear the proposed HP/Compaq merger, but the controversy surrounding the mega merger continues.

Examining how the distant cousin of e-commerce has evolved in the UK.

It`s pretty clear that this year is the year of the laptop, if Intel has anything to do with it.

The last two weeks saw Microsoft`s anti-trust settlement case drag on, and a host of local financial results.

A new online service has been launched in the UK, by a group of people who apparently missed the lesson on successful business models in dot-com 101.

Stress is an inevitable part of life. What matters is how you cope with it.

Open source software makes for ideal security devices thanks to the software`s robustness and flexibility.

The press room at Intel`s Developer Forum in San Francisco is a virtual paradise, where you can drown in a sea of bandwidth, and enjoy every minute of it.

In which I take back everything I`ve ever said about Standard Bank.

A common Linux desktop? It seems that many developers in the open source community are in favour, but I must admit I would miss the variety that has made Linux so attractive.

The now operational government database of fingerprints, and the associated plan to issue identity smart cards, has already been called an Orwellian nightmare. The Stone Age beckons unless government, for once, gets the PR right.

At home, the raft of local results, with those of ERP.com standing out significantly, stole much of the local headline space.

It is a telling lesson when an online venture that is so popular and has achieved such success, should come under threat because its traditional brick-and-mortar backing starts seeing cracks in its foundations.