Author: Duncan McLeod

This feels like déjà vu. A year ago, Taiwan’s HTC and Korea’s Samsung Electronics were locked in a battle over which had the best Android “superphone”. Both had compelling, almost equally matched products in the form of the One X (HTC) and the Galaxy S3 (Samsung). Samsung

Telkom is a shadow of the company it once was. As little as 10 years ago, it thoroughly dominated SA’s telecommunications landscape. Today, it’s not even among the top 40 companies listed on the JSE. Its market value has dwindled to such as extent that, at R7,8bn, it’s worth less than 5% of Vodacom, in which it once

Troubled JSE-listed technology services company Gijima’s share price was hammered lower on Tuesday, falling by more than 50% in intraday trading, after it revealed it was being forced to do a huge rights offer to raise cash to stave off financial disaster. But interim

It’s not going to be a good Easter weekend for the thousands employees of JSE-listed services group Gijima, which announced shortly before markets closed on Thursday that it was embarking on a rights offer in an effort to avert financial disaster. The company, which is chaired

Nhlanhla Gasa, the lead independent nonexecutive director of JSE-listed technology company DigiCore Holdings, has been murdered in KwaZulu-Natal. His body was found in the Tugela River, near Newark, and had multiple stab wounds, according to a report on Talk Radio 702. His burnt-out car was found nearby

It is extremely unlikely, although not impossible, that saboteurs were responsible for the cut in Seacom and other undersea cables north of Egypt last Friday, Seacom CEO Mark Simpson says. Simpson’s comments come after news on Thursday morning that Egyptian authorities had arrested three divers off the

Just a week after submarine telecommunications cable cuts off the coast of Egypt caused major disruptions to broadband services across Africa, Egyptian authorities have arrested three divers suspected of trying to sever the Sea-Me-We 4 cable system that runs through the region. There are no

Sipho Maseko is Telkom’s new group CEO and will take over from outgoing CEO Nombulelo Moholi next week, TechCentral has been told by three separate sources with ties to the telecommunications operator. An announcement about his appointment may be made as soon as this afternoon

Vodacom has hired a top expert in electronic payments and financial services to head its mobile commerce division. The telecommunications operator has appointed Herman Singh, formerly head of Standard Bank’s innovation arm, Beyond Payments, as its managing executive for mobile commerce. Singh

Zimbabwean-born Democratic Alliance MP and shadow communications minister Marian Shinn is no career politician, having joined parliament only after the last general election in 2009. For most of her life, she was involved in journalism and, later, public relations. Shinn, 62, grew up in