Goodbye Miriam Makeba, Mama Afrika

 Folk singer Miriam Makeba died at age 76 early Monday in Southern Italy after performing at a concert against organised crime and racism. Spokespeople from the Emergency Room at Pineta Grande Clinic, A private facility at Castel Volturno, confirmed that she was brought there from the concert. ANSA news reported that she succumbed to a […]

2008 MyBroadband Conference and Broadband Survey

 The 2008 MyBroadband Conference will take place on 27 November at Vodaworld from 10:00 to 16:30. Thanks to the generous sponsorships from Vodacom, Axxess, Poynting, Miro Distribution, Vox Telecom and ECN Telecoms, the conference will be free to all delegates. Vodacom has even thrown in a free lunch and then drinks after the conference. It’s […]

Virtaal translation tool released

 Dwayne Bailey sent a message to the over 400 members of the Translate.org.za group on Facebook. Translate.org.za has just released the first version of our desktop translation tool called Virtaal.  Before you think it’s about automagic translation from English to Xhosa, it’s not, it is a tool designed to be used by a human translating […]

Richard Stallman Exposes the Truth About DRM: Digital Restrictions Management

  Please view the excellent transcript of the Robin Good interview with Richard Stallman. The above clip is a short extract published on Youtube. One of the most powerful voices in digital freedom, Richard Stallman, has long been warning the world about a silent war being waged behind our screens. It’s not fought with guns, […]

IT Security & Cyber Forensics Conference

 Today I am speaking at the Marcus Evans IT Security & Cyber Forensics conference. The subtitle for this conference is: Mitigating IT security risks through improved processes and innovative investigations The inspiration for my talk is based on two books by the most famous hacker in the world, Kevin Mitnick: The Art of Intrusion: The […]