Pierre Spies has been named as deputy CEO at technology group Pinnacle Holdings and is set to take the reins when the current CEO, Arnold Fourie, steps down. After a torrid year for the group, which included an investigation
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Duncan McLeod
Duncan McLeod is founder and managing editor of TechCentral. With more than 30 years of experience in technology journalism, he has worked for and contributed to a range of publications, including the Financial Mail, the Sunday Times and the Financial Times.
Standard Bank has warned of downtime that will affect its customers for most of this coming Sunday. “Standard Bank wishes to advise customers of a planned system upgrade due
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Government-provided set-top boxes for digital terrestrial television will not contain conditional access based on encryption, and prospective pay-television operators wanting to use such a system
Just weeks after the not-for-profit South African Press Association (Sapa) announced it would close its doors at the end of…
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Organisations representing both sides of the set-top box battle over encryption are celebrating cabinet’s announcement on Thursday that government-subsidised set-top boxes for digital television will contain a control system. Celebrations, however, could be premature