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The killer mobile phone

Mobile handsets and applications continue to evolve faster than companies can cope with them. That will have to change.

The human factor

Forgetting to manage change can scupper most projects.

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

While governments debate, people create

Contrary to popular belief, most mapping data is not free. At least one open source project aims to make it so.

While

Heather Ford

Bots: A Double-Edged Sword

SOFTWARE Security BOTS A bot is a software application that runs automated tasks over the Internet.

Bots

Marian Shinn

USER AWARENESS IS KEY

With Internet Banking, like any other banking channel, customers can secure themselves by following a few basic steps and remaining aware of possible threats.

User

ABSA

ERP IS DEAD. LONG LIVE ERP!

ENTERPRISE RESOURCE PLANNING It’s been one of those years for the past five years.

ERP

Pamela Weaver

The psychology of fraud

There’s a fine, but clear line that divides good and evil.

THE

Mandy de Waal

World goes pop on global warming

While the Live Earth music concerts of July 7 have come and gone, the message left for people to make long term changes in their daily lives in order to combat global warming remains relevant, with a strong focus on encouraging the youth to tackle environmental problems.

World

Bianca Silva & Sheryl Ozinsky

Global education, global youth

In a globalised world, are our educational institutions sufficiently preparing young people for the future? Jake Hoffman has for the last year been attending the Mahindra United World College of India, which aims to develop critical consciousness and create graduates who are agents of change.

Global

Douglas Scott

Putting the environment on the diary

BRIGHT SPARK 3 More than 800 schools around South Africa have over the last four years received a lively injection of environmental information thanks to an initiative known as the Environment Diary.

Putting

Brenda Nkuna

FAILED LAND REFORM BOOSTS CONSPIRACY THEORIES

Is the government deliberately stalling on land reform in order to keep a trump card in hand for tough times ahead? It was Frederik van Zyl Slabbert who made the sobering remark some time ago that the ruling ANC’s true commitment to democracy would only be tested once there was a threat that they might be voted out of office.

Failed

Max Du Preez

People of faith

Many religions claim to have found clues to happiness, and most seem to concur that it entails some sort of balance, be it in giving and receiving or a congruence between nature, body, mind and soul.

People