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Vincent Maher

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‘Need for Speed’ goes commercial

"No longer are you a rogue street racer competing for pink slips or dodging cops and oncoming traffic at speeds in excess of 200km/h. You are now Ryan Cooper, an underground…

Beyond the call of duty

André Schlemmers project might not have earned him the coveted Microsoft Innovative Teachers Award this year, but educators can certainly learn a thing or two from him.

A Second Life for journalists

Archbishop Desmond Tutu recently entered a thriving virtual world called <i>Second Life</i> to be interviewed by Reuters bureau chief Adam Pasick. Somehow this doesn’t seem as…

Going beyond the call of duty

I am an education specialist for foundation phase learners at a rural primary school called Matjeni in Mpumalanga. I come into contact with many children with varied problems in…

Merger spells bad news for online developers

The announcement of a $3,5-billion takeover of Macromedia by Adobe Systems has sent a shockwave across the web development community. It would seem, on the surface, that this is…

Is information food for society?

”Whenever someone talks about bringing better technology to Africa I can’t help thinking to myself that you can’t eat bandwidth, and that you can’t use the internet to filter…

Copyright watchdogs are breeding a bigger enemy

The Recording Industry Association of America and the Motion Picture Association of America have recently drawn more blood with a massive drive against server administrators…

Reality gaming and living reality

In the olden days, when life became complicated, you would probably have written a poem, ploughed a field or poisoned someone. But ever since the advent of the internet and MTV’s…

Should websites link to beheadings in Iraq?

The beheading of Kenneth Bigley was made public via the internet, as have many of the previous beheadings in Iraq. This story is a summary of the many discussions I have had with…

Wikipedia gets a million entries

Last week users of the Wikipedia.org published its one-millionth article, making it the world’s largest and fastest growing encyclopedia according to the Wikimedia Foundation. A…