Author: Duncan McLeod

Microsoft South Africa is confident that a changing approach by its parent company will mean the faster introduction of the company’s online services in South Africa. That’s the word from the MD of the South African

Times Media Group’s Vidi online video-on-demand platform is expanding its offering with a range of local television dramas, movies and children’s programming. Vidi has licensed a range

Standard Bank has launched a new innovation centre in Rosebank in Johannesburg in an attempt to, it said, “think and act like a 150-year-old start-up”. Launching the facility on Wednesday

Apple delighted investors overnight on Tuesday, posting strong first quarter results, driven mainly by record iPhone sales, but helped along, too, by demand for its Mac line-up of computers and high activity in the App Store. In after-hours trading in New York

It was expected to be a fairly routine keynote address, with Microsoft using an event in Seattle on Wednesday to take the wraps off the consumer features of its new operating system, Windows 10. What it turned

Cell C said on Friday that it had lodged an application in the high court in Johannesburg to review communications regulator Icasa’s 2014 late wholesale call termination rate regulations. Those regulations softened asymmetry that favoured Cell C that had

Windows, WhatsApp and Netflix top the agenda in this packed episode of TalkCentral. Your hosts Duncan McLeod and Regardt van der Berg unpack the big Microsoft keynote, looking at the Windows 10 announcements and, of course the announcement

A spokesman for Netflix has reportedly confirmed that the online video-on-demand service will be launched in South Africa before the end of next year. This follows news on Wednesday that

Altron, the technology and engineering group that owns Altech, Bytes and Powertech, warned on Thursday that its headline earnings for the year to end-February 2015 were likely to slump by at least 40% due to “difficult trading conditions”. Basic earnings per

A new Sim card for mobile phones is promising its users unlimited access to WhatsApp in 150 countries and across 400 network operators. News of the WhatsApp Sim, called the WhatSim, comes as the instant messaging giant, which is owned