Local surfers always gripe about how slow their Internet access is, but satellite Internet access solves that problem by broadcasting your requested content directly to your PC.

To survive in the online world you`ve got to have marketing savvy, as it`s no longer enough to just build a good Web site and wait patiently for hoards of browsers to stumble across it.

In this three-part series Ralph Pecker, MD of Cognos SA, reviews the development of the business intelligence and data warehouse market, the mistakes companies have made in deploying data warehousing and data mart solutions, and the best approach for companies to ensure ample return on investment from business intelligence/OLAP solutions.

Enticing long-term investor support depends on how your company has been classified. So is your company a gorilla, chimp or monkey?

Although all was quiet on the local and international IT front last week, this week promises more excitement as another virus, even more potent than Melissa, heads our way.

Being read is what it`s all about and if you`ve done your homework correctly, you can see your words cascade into two-dimensional form on newsprint, to be consumed with interest by a voracious public.

When technologies, products, services, businesses and industries converge in radical new ways, it has the potential to transform industries, redefine markets and annihilate competition.

The last column in a six part series focused on the information delivery paradigm by Franc Trivella, SAS Institute`s marketing manager, examines how information delivery applications are delivering real value to some competitive companies in the marketplace.

Although form factors, or making computing platforms available on different kinds of hardware, is still treated as a future technology, the last few months have seen the increasing stability and availability of different form factors.

This week saw the disappointing listing of Y2KTec but the satisfactory listing of Contlan Holdings as well as "satisfactory" full-year figures from Telkom.

There is new insight into the power of prototyping or modelling and its role in creative collaboration, and there is no doubt that innovation needs to be a core competency and a 21st century differentiator for all companies.

Neil Fairbrother, Motorola Internet and Networking Group channel marketing manager, EMEA, takes a trip through time to examine how networking will impact our lives 20 years from now.

SA hasn`t seen anywhere near the sheer numbers the US has in online commerce sites and although most local online retailers report a dramatic increase in the money being spent, it is still a small fraction of a percent of total consumer spend.