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Cyberbeggars hit pay dirt

Need to pay off your credit card bill, or raise enough money for that pesky divorce? Why not set up a Web site and ask total strangers to send you their hard-earned cash to help you out of your predicament?

Rodney Weidemann

Cellphone saga causes major headache

As an industry matures, one expects that its constituent parts will work closer together to deliver a quality product. This is certainly not the case in the cellphone industry.

Paul Vecchiatto

Punting Telkom to the masses

Government is not responsible if private investors fail to educate themselves about Telkom before buying into it. But will it be able to keep its hands off the market when the share hits trouble?

Telkom`s new beginning

The economic and political landscape has changed significantly since Iscor went to the market, but there are still valuable lessons Telkom can learn from that privatisation exercise.

Paul Vecchiatto

Internet chat rooms

Are Internet chat rooms a danger to our children?

With the growing use of Internet chat rooms by children of all ages, the threat of paedophiles using the anonymity of this medium to entrap minors has become very real indeed.

Rodney Weidemann

We can`t do without IT anymore

The traditional holiday trek is under way, and how IT has changed it.

Sponsorships, sports, SAP, DiData

Why do companies spend so much on sponsorships?

Companies often sink vast amounts of money into sporting sponsorships, but do they really ever see a return on investment, and if so, how are they getting value for money?

Rodney Weidemann

Cyber terrorism

Cyber-terrorism: A war with no easy answers

The potential damage terrorists could inflict on the cyber-front is massive, but so is the damage we could do if we override basic democratic rights.

Rodney Weidemann

IT`s not where it`s needed most

Isn`t it ironic how multimillion-rand technology is being used to amuse bored children, while truly worthwhile causes cannot deploy even simple applications to make a huge difference?

The morality police

First National Bank doesn`t trust me, which I can understand. But it also doesn`t trust its own employees to exercise self-restraint when it comes to e-mail. And these are the people we trust with our money?

Department of Communications

Haggling with the Dept of (mis)Communications

Is the Department of Communications really so incompetent that it keeps making mistakes with the information it releases, or are these miscommunications a tool to help it strengthen its own bargaining position?

Rodney Weidemann

Why should Telkom go to the masses?

The government wants to sell Telkom shares to as many South Africans as possible. But everyone stands to lose, and even if you don`t agree with the anti-privatisation brigade, there are some moral questions to be answered.