Author: Duncan McLeod

Songstress Taylor Swift, 25, and U2 frontman Bono, 54, have very different views of the streaming music phenomenon that is upending the music industry’s business model. Late last year, Swift pulled her songs

It’s the first TalkCentral podcast of 2015. In the show this week, your hosts Duncan McLeod and Regardt van der Berg chat about the best products to be announced at this year’s International CES – just don’t call it the Consumer Electronics Show! From the Gogoro Smartscooter

One of the biggest drawcards of the Consumer Electronics Show (CES), held in Las Vegas in the US every January, is its sheer scale. Covering nearly 200 000sq m of exhibitor space and showcasing more than 20 000 new products, it provides a wonderful overview of the best – and sometimes

The Universal Service & Access Agency of South Africa (Usaasa) has torn into the Democratic Alliance over “unfortunate and sensational” claims by the party questioning the digital television set-top box tender process the agency has embarked on. Earlier on Tuesday

The Democratic Alliance may take legal action over a multibillion-rand government tender for the supply of as many as 5m set-top boxes for digital terrestrial television. “The DA is concerned that in a rushed attempt to partially meet the

The competition authorities have approved the merger of two of South Africa’s biggest e-retailers. Takealot.com and Kalahari.com said on Tuesday that their merger deal had been given the go-ahead by regulators. The decision was handed down on Monday, the

It was another busy year in South Africa’s technology industry. From the drama at the SABC to the drama over the splitting of the department of communications, it’s been an interesting news year, but a frustrating one for the sector. We know what our favourite stories were in 2014

Fast-growing African-focused tower operator IHS Holding has won another deal to operate towers on behalf of a mobile operator, this time involving 1 100 sites from Bharti Airtel in Zambia and Rwanda. The latest deal expands IHS’s tower footprint in Africa to 21 000. Operators typically sell

Next year was meant to be a big one for South Africa’s technology industry. Years ago, under the Mbeki administration, the government agreed with the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) that the country would switch off analogue terrestrial television broadcasts by 17 June 2015. Countries

It’s the last TalkCentral podcast of 2014. In this week’s show, your hosts Duncan McLeod and Regardt van der Berg chat about TechCentral’s Newsmakers of 2014 and why we chose who we did. Also on the special edition of the podcast this week, Duncan and Regardt pick the winner and loser