The timing of MGX`s purchase of CCH, announced this week, may be off, but the potential for long-term benefits makes the deal worthwhile.
In the past few months, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has fallen into disrepute with the press, and tarnished its image as a squeaky-clean well-oiled machine.
Take almost a million developers, motivate them with tricky problems, the sense of community, and a decentralised system, and you will get working software.
Some readers responded to last week`s Double Take with varying levels of outrage at my marginalisation of Java as a serious enterprise contender. Is it ready to challenge Cobol?
Cobol is like concrete - it forms great foundations, you can build high-capacity constructions from it, but man, is it ugly!
IBM`s re-badging of its server lines comes at the tail-end of a spurt of activity in the high-end server market, reiterating the fact that the days of Unix on Big Iron are far from over.
We all love Napster because it gives us something for nothing, but in legalise that is often referred to as theft, which puts the music distribution company on the wrong side of the law.
The worlds depicted by science fiction writers could be closer to fact then fiction. The fields of cybernetics, artificial intelligence and robotics promise to revolutionise our world.
For some the glass is half-empty, for others half-full, but the success or failure of the new SCO-Caldera alliance will have far-reaching implications for the IT industry.
Intel`s support of peer networking left a few wondering if it has forgotten the lessons learnt from years of security and management nightmares.
The Internet, Linux, Napster: all anti-capitalistic movements born under the flag of the greatest capitalist success story the world has ever seen. Jason Norwood-Young asks: What does this mean for capitalism?
Vendors are taking the message delivered by e-business - that of trust and partnerships - seriously. A spate of joint ventures proves that technology companies are keen to lead the new economy.