Author: Duncan McLeod

Altron is actively pursuing a sale of its set-top box manufacturing business, Altech UEC, TechCentral has established reliably from two well-placed sources. The group, which is disposing of noncore assets in a restructuring process that will see it focus on its

Dimension Data division Internet Solutions has relaunched its small and medium enterprise business in an effort to claim a bigger chunk of the growing segment, in the process ditching

Giraffe, the South African start-up using technology to help tackle unemployment in South Africa through an automated recruitment service, has announced it has raised a seed round of funding led by Silicon Valley venture firm Omidyar Network. The parties have not

Reunert, the holding company of Nashua, ECN, PanSolutions and other brands, intends using the billions of rand on its balance sheet – including the proceeds of the sale of Nashua Mobile

Cape Town-based Wi-Fi start-up Asimmetric has raised a “seven-figure US dollar amount” in new funding from venture capitalists in Silicon Valley. Founded by experts in the telecommunications industry, Asimmetric

Telkom has cut a further 1 184 jobs through voluntary retrenchments, representing more than 8% of the company’s workforce, prompting trade union Solidarity to warn of a “massive skills shortage” at

In the latest episode of TalkCentral, your hosts Duncan McLeod and Regardt van der Berg chat about Apple’s new 4-inch iPhone and the new iPad Pro. Also this week, they talk about Microsoft’s Build conference, which took place in

As government drags its heels on formulating a policy on so-called high-demand spectrum – the radio frequencies that can be used to deliver next-generation mobile broadband networks

Concerns are growing in the telecommunications industry that government plans to abandon the nearly universal model of auctioning off precious radio frequency spectrum to private-sector operators, instead allocating it to a single wholesale provider in which

The launch this week of a smaller iPhone and a new iPad “underlines the extent to which Apple has lost the innovative edge”, according to a senior technology analyst. The new 4-inch iPhone SE, in particular, showed that Apple had lost the innovative