The good fortune of broad-based black economic empowerment is reserved for the select few.
The Cape Futurex ICT exhibition was an opportunity missed for organisers, exhibitors and visitors.
Rather than getting on with the business of IT, it appears women are shining the glass ceiling to better reflect their trendy hair-dos.
The crimexpo forums, limiting freedom of speech, highlight one of the biggest problems with discussion forums.
With the Internet, everything is accessible, and people seem to forget that just because it doesn`t require retyping, the information is not free to use, abuse, and plagiarise.
Is the industry really interested in allowing freedom of choice?
Only 25% of consumers know what MNP is. Are the rest simply too overwhelmed to care?
Things in the IT industry seem to come around again and again.
There are three possible reasons for the regulator`s disappointing new broadband regulations.
"Let them eat vegetables," health minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang told the international community at an AIDS conference this week.
The cost of telecommunications in SA is a sore point.
IT is not maturing. Rather, it is the people using it who are. And their innovation is their legacy for the next generation to do more with.