Steven Liversedge

A working group of the country-code top level domains (ccTLDs) voted unanimously last Friday to withdraw from the Domain Name Supporting Organization (DNSO). While the administrator of South Africa’s .za domain, Mike Lawry, wasn’t involved, he says he “can understand the annoyance” felt by ccTLDs. The DNSO is one of three foundation member groups of […]

On Monday, Africa Business Direct (ABD) was officially launched, a Webventure with the stated aim of “Expanding African Business Globally.” A joint venture between two American entrepreneurs and South African publisher, WriteStuff Publishing, Africa Business Direct is a business portal that divides its audience into two distinct marketplaces: African businesspeople seeking cross-border trade and investment […]

Hawkers trading at the Computer Faire, the South Africa’s premier computer exhibition, were raided by police, resulting in the confiscation of R6000 worth of suspected counterfeit Microsoft computer games. Both Microsft employees and members of the public alerted the Business Software Alliance (BSA), an anti-piracy organization, that an exhibitor was selling games they believed were […]

The Internet Engineering Task Force has started to work on a version of the Net that won’t be earthbound. With an impending Mars mission scheduled for 2003, NASA has linked up with IETF, the group that sets standards for the Net, to formulate interplanetary Internet protocols. What they have in mind is the creation of […]

The University of South Africa(Unisa) has partnered with FrontRange Solutions to introduce students to the discipline of CRM. Unisa hopes to complement the theory currently received with a method of practical implementation to better equip students for the business world. This makes six universities currently using FrontRange, according to a release. It’s also the first […]

Research conducted by the University of California at San Diego has revealed that more than 4,000 denial-of-service attacks are launched every week. By ‘listening’ to a large segment of the Internet — known as an A-class network, UCSD researchers were able to discern traces of “scattered responses,” typical indicators of DoS attacks. During three weeks […]

At the recent Apple Worldwide Developers Conference, programmers were encouraged to exhume the Mac OS X’s innate potential and bring out more native apps. “It’s a race to the top,” said Apple Chief Executive Officer Steve Jobs to an audience of Mac-crazy developers. “The person who gets the native apps out first will win.” OS […]

According to Eduventures.com, offering free Web-based education can drive online sales – it maintains that education is never out of style, even in the world of e-commerce. With companies struggling to boost or even maintain online sales of their goods, some are turning to so-called “educommerce.” These e-vendors are finding that an educated customer is […]

iPlanet E-Commerce Solutions — a Sun/Netscape alliance — Wednesday unveiled what it terms “the industry’s first portal platform” that includes a fully integrated wireless capability. The new platform will allow companies to make their content available to mobile users. iPlanet Portal Server deploys B2B, B2C and B2E portals. In March of this year the it […]

Speaking at the Computer Faire in Johannesburg Tuesday, Dr Hellmuth Broda, Sun Microsystems’ Chief Technologist Europe, detailed Sun’s vision of how to make money change hands while the Internet changes everything. According to Broda, Sun has bet 10 percent of its research budget on three things it believes will affect all Internet business models. First, […]

European e-commerce is set to undergo explosive growth but, according to Forrester Research, it’s going to take substantial investments and clean-up work to make it happen. Having garnered the opinion of top European B2B execs, Forrester warned that steep labour costs and extensive investments in sell-side apps are prerequisites for fruitful online trading. A resultant […]

The Cape Information Technology Initiative (CITI) announced the Unysen Bandwidth Barn to the media end last week, a private/public sector partnership to incubate start-up IT companies in the Western Cape. The Department of Trade and Industry contributed R1 million to the project, with Minister of Trade and Industry, Alec Erwin, stating, “The department will continue […]