Author: Duncan McLeod

Vodafone Group CEO Vittorio Colao is optimistic that a breakthrough is near regarding government’s controversial ICT policy white paper, saying a “hybrid” model proposed by local mobile operators, including Vodafone

Duncan McLeod and Regardt van der Berg are back for another episode of technology news and analysis. In this week’s show: how Samsung dealt with the Galaxy Note7 crisis. Also this week, Vodafone’s CEO, Vittorio Colao, is in town

TechCentral is ramping up its focus on podcasting, an exciting medium whose time has finally arrived in South Africa. Podcasting is an exciting new growth area for the website, and the downloads of both the TechCentral podcast

Samsung Electronics has pushed out the launch of its mobile payments and digital wallet service to the third quarter of 2017. The company had said in August 2016, at the local launch of the ill-fated Galaxy Note7

Samsung Electronics in South Africa contracted a third party to destroy all Galaxy Note7 devices, which had to be recalled from the channel just hours before they were due to go on sale locally, according to a company

Head of mobile at Samsung in Southern Africa Craige Fleischer sat down with TechCentral editor Duncan McLeod to talk about the launch of the company’s new flagship smartphone, the Galaxy S8, in South Africa. The

Newly appointed Altron CEO Mteto Nyati has spoken out against “radical economic transformation”, warning that in the short term politicians will use it to convince people that it will benefit them, while in the long

Just a month after TechCentral’s podcast with former Altron CEO Robbie Venter, Duncan McLeod returns to the group’s Parktown, Johannesburg head office to interview new CEO, and former MTN South Africa boss

This is the third podcast in a TechCentral series on information security. The focus in this interview, with HID Global vice president Greg Sarrail, is on biometric technologies. Though the focus of the interview is on

Although Cell C supports government’s idea of a national wholesale open-access network (Woan), communications regulator Icasa should not wait any longer to allocate spectrum in the 2,6GHz band. That’s the view of the mobile