The war of words between communications minister Faith Muthambi and Democratic Alliance MP Gavin Davis continued over the weekend over allegations by Davis that government is directing a disportionate amount of
Author: Duncan McLeod
Duncan McLeod
Duncan McLeod is editor of TechCentral.
Staggering. That’s the word Apple CEO Tim Cook used in the company’s first-quarter conference call with analysts this week to describe demand for its new smartphone models, the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus. Staggering is also
China’s Huawei, which lost ground in South Africa relative to some of its smartphone rivals over the Christmas sales season – pushing it into fourth place in terms of shipments – has vowed to
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