Shuttle heads home
Nasa cleared the shuttle Endeavour for landing on Tuesday, after a two-week mission to the International Space Station (ISS) cut short 24 hours by menacing Hurricane Dean.
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South Africa ranked 35th in e-readiness
South Africa has been ranked 35th in a global electronic readiness (e-Readiness) survey, thus leading the continent in the 2007 edition
IT gurus focus on developing SA’s skills
INTERNET billionaire Mark Shuttleworth and other IT gurus will focus on skills development when they meet President Thabo Mbeki at a two-day talk shop this weekend.
New policy formalises SA domain name space
The .za Domain Name Authority (.zaDNA) is taking its first steps to formalising the Internet space in South Africa.
20 Hour helpdesk call
A customer trying to call British telecoms operator BT Group was left hanging on the telephone for a total of 20 hours, The Times newspaper reported on Saturday.
Nu Metro Website Hacked
The Nu Metro website was hacked on Friday by a group describing themselves as ‘Guards of Turks and Muslims’.
Internet use could kill off local newspapers
News audiences are ditching TV and newspapers and using the Internet as their main source of information
R5bn to be spent on ICT before 2010
South Africa is expected to spend about R5 billion on information and communication technology (ICT) infrastructure in preparation for the Fifa World Cup event in 2010
Facebook outgrows Myspace
Facebook has grown its unique audience by 129 % over the last year, but despite showing much faster growth it is still trailing MySpace by two-thirds when it comes to its unique monthly visitors.
‘Net refugees’ feared to be new poor
Japan is launching its first study into so-called “Net cafe refugees”
Allofmp3 owner acquitted
The former owner of Russian music download website allofmp3.com was acquitted on intellectual piracy charges on Wednesday
What Facebook costs business
If the number of corporates blocking access is anything to go by, it’s costing a lot…