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Eight-legged beastie

AMD`s new Spider platform is a final attempt to take back some of the consumer market share it lost to Intel over the past year. Is AMD back from the ashes?

Unified vision

Microsoft seems rather proud of its accomplishments with OCS 2007 as it aims to become the centre of the unified communications landscape.

Behind closed doors

Telkom`s plan to sell parts of its business to MTN and Vodafone is unclear and unsubstantiated. Brainstorm looks at a number of potential scenarios should Telkom have its way.

Some serious horsepower

Intel`s ‘V8` platform is, without a doubt, the ultimate workstation available today.

Venture capital dances, IP flourishes

Developing, managing, protecting and retaining intellectual property (IP) continues to be one of the biggest challenges for emerging markets worldwide.

Taking aim at the services game

With the global market maturing and customer demands changing, Nokia is changing tack and moving aggressively into the online services game.

New Technologies that excite geeks

Ubuntu coming to more brandsMark Shuttleworth, Canonical founder and the philanthropic driving force behind Ubuntu Linux at the Ubuntu Live conference held in the USA last month, confirmed that the free and open source operating system will almost surely be making its way onto other OEM hardware as a pre-installed option in the near future.

Sayonara desktop OS

The conventional operating system (OS) is dead, soon to be replaced by the web OS concept.

Getting the thumbs-down

The majority of local experts invited to comment on OpenXML`s ISO standardisation voted against it. Is this the end of the file format?

Small business with big clout

Seven years ago, Running Computers ‘resigned` 98 percent of its customers and downsized. Today, the business is more profitable than it`s been in years.

Shifting the focus

Intel got so good at building processors that the coding world fell behind. Now the company is investing in new software tools that will allow coders to catch up. Will this move be accepted?

It`s chow time!

Microsoft`s move into the enterprise security space sounds a warning bell that it`s all-out war for the security crown. As expected, the larger enterprise security vendors aren`t too charmed – but they`re not worried either.