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Long live cookies!

It seems almost impossible to get meaningful figures for online readership in SA, despite the Audit Bureau of Circulation`s valiant efforts. As a result, publishers are suffering and advertisers are sharing the pain.

Who`s going to host the virtual braai?

South Africans are taking to online socialising like ducks to water. What does this mean for the good old SA braai?

The hijacking of a tragedy

A year after the tragedy, the one thing that frightens me almost as much as the spectre of further terrorist attacks is the manner in which big business has turned the anniversary into a profit-making exercise.

Rodney Weidemann

ADSL: Overpriced hype?

You could get a headache crunching the numbers, but if the idea of a speedy ADSL connection has you salivating, you`d better keep the aspirin handy. Few users will actually find ADSL cost-effective.

20Twenty vs the grey faces

It will be a sad day when 20Twenty supporters have to go back to the grey face of business and bureaucracy that awaits them as clients of traditional banks.

The post-human call centre

Near - so near you can taste it - is the day that we won`t have to interact with actual human beings unless we really want to. What a glorious day that will be.

Why it will be illegal to lose your SIM

Information can be a bitch to control, whether you are tying to prevent MP3ers from pirating music or linking a criminal to a telephone number. The solution? Suppress freedom, strip-mine rights and penalise the common man.

Sex and scandal still sell

The media`s three "Ss", sex and scandal sell, can still be relied upon even for an innocent information technology orientated Internet publication such as ITWeb.

Paul Vecchiatto

Buffet to lead telecoms consolidation?

Warren Buffet invests in a telecommunications company and the share price gains 60% in an eye-blink. What does it mean? Maybe simply that common sense is back in fashion.

Dimension Data share`s decline is overdone

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.

An open letter to Thabo Mbeki

Mr President, you have gone to the trouble of establishing a heavyweight advisory body on technology. I beg you: talk to Mark Shuttleworth and Larry Ellison before signing the Electronic Communications and Transactions Bill.

The tyranny of the majority

The debate around who should control the .za domain centres around what is really a minor technical matter. Yet the battle is also a harbinger of future conflicts and raises fundamental questions as to the structure of our democracy.