Author: Duncan McLeod

Kalido, a South African-developed smartphone app that helps people meet talented individuals around them and which its backers believe has the potential to be the next big global social network, has revealed that it has raised

In the latest episode of TechCentral’s podcast, your hosts Duncan McLeod and Regardt van der Berg gather around the mic to discuss the iPhone 7 launch. Also this week, they chat about tumbling ADSL prices in

Project Isizwe, the not-for-profit company behind TshWiFi, Tshwane’s free public Wi-Fi initiative, is confident the project will continue under the city’s new, Democratic Alliance-led administration, despite a planned mayoral review. Isizwe

The newly elected mayor of Tswhane, the Democratic Alliance’s Solly Msimanga, is to review the one of the key projects championed by his predecessor, former mayor Kgosientso Ramokgopa. Msimanga’s acting spokesman, Matthew Gerstner

Troubled technology and industrial group Altron said on Monday that it expects to return to profitability for the six months ended 31 August 2016 as a restructuring starts to bear early fruit. It said in a trading statement that it expects to report

JSE-listed telecommunications company Huge Group has reached an agreement to acquire ConnectNet Broadband Wireless and its wholly owned subsidiary, tier-one Internet service provider Sainet, for at least R275m, pending

Telecommunications & postal services minister Siyabonga Cwele has come to the defence of government’s upcoming policy on allocating so-called “high-demand spectrum” for 4G/LTE wireless

Former top Vodacom executive Romeo Kumalo plans to launch a mobile virtual network operator in South Africa. The former CEO of Vodacom’s international operations is, however, tight-lipped about what the MVNO will

Sliide, a start-up that serves targeted sponsored content and advertising to users’ smartphone lock screens, is expanding from its initial market of Nigeria to South Africa, promising users free data

The courts are the last place South Africans should be negotiating the future of the information and communications technology sector, yet that is exactly what is happening, a prominent businessman