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Zuckerberg

Zuckerberg is a liar

Facebook is one of many companies that keep annoying customers with their failure to grasp open standards.

Starting up

A relatively unknown outfit is rapidly becoming one of the biggest web businesses in South Africa.

Starting

Hilton Tarrant

Nommer asseblief?

It may be old-school, but the telephone is still a critical part of the corporate technology toolbox.

Nommer

Lesley Stones

The Facebook generation

Consumers are becoming increasingly identity-focused. Corporations will have to keep up to remain relevant – both as suppliers and employers.

THE

Lauri E. Elliott

The data centre’s best-kept secret

F5’s almost unnoticed presence at the edge of the data centre is about to change.

THE

Paul Furber

Government on the go

Government in the palm of your hand? Sounds far too good to be true, in a country where service delivery is hampered by limited resources and a still-skewed distribution of those resources.

Government

Business Connection

Multiprotocol Label Switching

COMMUNICATIONS - INTERNAL NETWORKS Words: Pamela Weaver MPLS Fast emerging as the de facto standard for converged networks.

Multiprotocol

Block the Door and They Can’t Get In

SOFTWARE - SECURITY Words: Pamela Weaver LOCK-DOWN For all your best efforts, it’s easy for well-intentioned users to open malicious attachments to e-mail.

Block

Different Mobile Strokes for Different Folks

HARDWARE - MOBILE DEVICES Words: Janet Paterson and Paul Hartley PREDICTION CEO designate of Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN) Simon Beresford-Wylie has predicted that there will be more than five billion mobile phone subscriptions by 2015, with the majority coming from emerging markets – and the uptake will splinter mobility.

Different

What People Want

HARDWARE - Laptops and PCs Words: Pamela Weaver RESEARCH According to Forrester Research, one infour SMEs in Europe and America would replace their PC equipment over 2006, with Dell the most popular choice for both laptops and desktops.

What

Small Doesn’t Mean Easy

INTRO - landscape Words: Janet Paterson INSIGHT Managing a small business is not necessarily easier than running a big one.

Small

THE NEXT-GENERATION NETWORK AS A FOUNDATION FOR E-GOVERNMENT

Giving citizens and businesses the ability to interact with government is just one function of e-government.

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Godfrey Ntoele