Jack Schofield On the Web, pornography is just a misplaced keystroke away. Last week, Brian Milburn, president of California-based Solid Oak Software, said: “Our researchers have discovered thousands of registered domain names that are extremely similar to those of major companies. We call them `typo’ sites.” The increase in such sites was “an alarming trend”, […]

MALI defeated Guinea 4-1 in a play-off match in Ghana on Wednesday to decide which team will join Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon and Zambia to represent Africa in the World Under-20 football championship in Nigeria in April. Mali’s four goals were all scored in the second half of the match. The first goal came from Amadou […]

Alex Dodd With South African music getting slicker and slicker by the minute, the competition’s been stiff. Which local band would get the gig? Which group would be selected to support two of the biggest party bands in the world on their upcoming tour to South Africa? The promoters are still not coming clean, but […]

Charlene Smith Andrew Oberholzer, senior group product manager at Pfizer, makers of Viagra, is a tired man. He speaks to an average of 10 journalists a day – all asking the same questions. He is overseeing the mailing of 30 000 samples and medical information to doctors and pharmacies. Oberholzer is under the average age […]

The organisation which selects and monitors members of the Financial Times Stock Exchange (FTSE)index is to consider rewriting the rule book governing the proportion of a company’s shares that must be available to outside investors. The Equity Indices Committee of FTSE International is expected to decide on a wide- ranging review of the whole “free-float” […]

Adam Haupt It’s Sunday afternoon at Making Music Productions and I’m hanging out with Cape hip- hop crew Black Noise and some Swedish hip-hop heads, who are participated in the recent Heal the Hood anti-racism, anti-crime campaign in the Western Cape. It’s been a long and hard two weeks for the Swedes and things are […]

These are the bulk of the questions faxed to Magnus Heystek, at his request, before publication. He declined to make any comment. 1. How do you reconcile the fact that your company, Cream Publishing, bought stand 1 with the house for R650 000 while the trust bought stand 2 for R850 000? 2. At the […]

Howard Barrell Opposition leaders have united in a bitter row with the African National Congress over a government publicity campaign which they say is promoting the ANC and threatening to undermine the integrity of the coming elections. The heads of the opposition parties – the New National Party, Democratic Party, Pan Africanist Congress, African Christian […]

Rupert Jones A cellular phone which thinks it is a cash machine is about to go on trial in Britain. The hybrid handset brings the dream of access to one’s cash any time, any place, anywhere a big step closer. Cellphone banking is not new, but the customer is unable to do much more than […]