Author: Duncan McLeod

Last year proved to be a little quiet on the technology front. Internationally, there were few major developments, at least in consumer electronics. Manufacturers continued to refine their televisions, smartphones, notebooks and tablets rather than cracking

Telkom has held talks with a range of media companies, including America’s Netflix and Comcast, as it looks to build a video-on-demand service on its fixed-line broadband infrastructure in South Africa, its CEO, Sipho Maseko, has been quoted as saying

Microsoft South Africa MD Mteto Nyati and former Google sub-Saharan Africa boss Stafford Masie have been appointed to the board of JSE-listed education and recruitment company AdvTech. Nyati, who previously worked at IBM South Africa, and Masie, who is spearheading

The company behind the design and development of South African-manufactured smartphones and tablets is set to begin production of the…

Another year is behind us, and 2013 was another important one in South Africa’s technology industry. We know what our favourite stories were in 2013, but which articles did you, TechCentral’s readers, click on the most. These are the pieces, in ascending order from 10 to one, that generated the most

Times Media Group has continued shedding assets and streamlining its operations, on Monday announcing that it has reached an agreement to sell Nu Metro, South Africa’s second largest cinema chain after Ster-Kinekor, to private equity firm One Fifty Capital

Vodacom Group CEO Shameel Joosub has offloaded shares worth about R6m in the mobile telecommunications operator. The sale of the shares, which took place on 31 December, the last trading day of 2013, was concluded at a price of R130,87/share. That’s near to Vodacom’s all-time

Naspers-owned Internet service provider MWeb has entered into proof-of-concept tests with City Lodge, Hyprop Group, Netcare and Spur as it looks to build a national Wi-Fi network. TechCentral first reported on 4 December that MWeb intends tackling the incumbents in the public Wi-Fi hotspot

Telkom has sold its pan-African business, iWayAfrica and Africa Online Mauritius, in a private sale to Gondwana International Networks for an undisclosed sum. The fixed-line telecommunications operator has described the business as an “immaterial” part

Legal action appears to be looming after a grouping of broadcasters and business organisations on Friday slammed cabinet’s recent decisions about migration to digital terrestrial television. This has raised the spectre of further damaging delays in South Africa’s already