Author: Duncan McLeod

LG Electronics came out of nowhere last year and stunned the smartphone world with the G2, arguably the best Android handset of 2013. Now it’s back with the G2’s successor, the G3, and LG again has a phone that is contender not only for smartphone of the year but best phone overall. The G3 is not perfect

On Digital Media (ODM), the company that owns pay-television brand StarSat (formerly TopTV), is a step closer to concluding its business rescue process after it won a high court battle last week against one of its minority shareholders. It has been in business rescue under the

The Democratic Alliance will institute legal action over the appointment of Hlaudi Motsoeneng as chief operating officer of the SABC. Party leader Helen Zille said at a press conference in Cape Town on Monday that the DA will serve papers on communications minister Faith Muthambi and the SABC

Samsung warned this week that its earnings in its most recent financial quarter were likely to have tumbled by as much as 26,5% – the third straight quarter of decline – in part because of a glut of unsold smartphones and growing competition from Chinese manufacturers. These must be troubling times for the

Imagine being able to watch the latest hit shows on South African television just hours after they’ve been aired in the US. That’s what local pay-television viewers can now look forward to. Due to the growing threat posed by online piracy, M-Net, the pay-TV operator in the MultiChoice stable has announced it will

Welcome to another episode of South Africa’s leading weekly technology podcast, TalkCentral. In the show this week, your hosts Duncan McLeod and Regardt van der Berg talk about the unfolding crisis at the SABC and what it means. Also this week, they take a look at the new entrant in South Africa’s smartphone

Public protector Thuli Madonsela has decided to conduct a fresh probe into the appointment of the controversial Hlaudi Motsoeneng to the post of chief operating officer at the SABC, Business Day newspaper reported on Friday. The investigation will look into whether Motsoeneng has the right qualifications

MTN has launched a concentrating solar cooling plant at its head office in Roodepoort, west of Johannesburg. The plant will be used to cool the company’s data centres. The facility generates enough electricity to power 350 average-sized homes. The plant uses a technology called Linear Fresnel

Telkom has slammed trade unions for spreading disinformation about restructuring at the telecommunications operator, dismissing as “baseless” claims made this week by Solidarity and the South African Communications Union. Sacu has warned that Telkom could be planning to dismiss

Samsung Electronics warned its operating profit could fall a two-year low in the second quarter as it grapples with a slowdown in its smartphone business among other challenges – so are the South Korean tech giant’s best days behind it?