1800s - US state corporation law enhances the rights of corporate boards to govern without unanimous consent of shareholders in exchange for statutory benefits like appraisal rights, to make corporate governance more efficient.

Beyond the hype around the converged IP network, what benefits does this new world really deliver?

Alexander Forbes is realising cost-savings and efficiency improvements as a result of its IP telephony roll-out.

The carrier landscape is changing in line with the end-user landscape thanks to emerging technologies - and competitors are turning traditional telecoms delivery on its head.

It is said the lifeblood of an IT economy is the state of its software development industry. ITWeb asks local developers about the skills crisis and the build versus buy question.

Too much work and not enough people. That's the summary of local software development in SA.

Disaster recovery and business continuity are seen as a grudge spend, but good governance and holistic risk management are changing this trend.

A Gartner management update released in 2005 details six myths about BCM and DR. These are as relevant today as they were then, which reflects the relative lack of maturity of this segment.

1965: The Northeast blackout occurs in New York City, the first major regional disaster affecting corporate data centres.

Business intelligence is maturing quickly. Signs include consolidation, wider appeal to SMEs and more user influence.

Since the last ITWeb business intelligence round table, there has been some consolidation in the vendor market.

Human resources has been on the road from administrative processor to strategic advisor for many years, but a lack of process automation has delayed things somewhat.