Author: Duncan McLeod

The Advertising Standards Authority has instructed Cell C to withdraw a “misleading” and “ambiguous” billboard marketing its 15c/MB data offer after a consumer laid a complaint with the body. The complainant, an NN Alexander, submitted that he had

Ultra-high-definition (UHD) television, which offers a resolution of 2160p – or four times that of current-generation HD TVs – has a bright future, though it still has a number of obstacles it has to overcome before it achieves mainstream success, according to a new report from Deloitte

Now this is a handy little device! If you have to keep track of your business mileage for tax purposes, you’ll know what an inconvenience it is having to enter the details into a logbook every time you go anywhere. The GPS Log Book is an ingenious product that automates the process

EOH is seemingly the JSE’s unstoppable IT growth machine. The technology company has again turned in a strong set of financial results, with revenue up by 40% to R5,1bn and headline earnings per share up by 34% to R3,39 in the year ended 31 July 2013

South Africa’s hard-working new communications minister, Yunus Carrim, is tackling the challenges in his portfolio with such gusto that he appears to have taken many industry players by surprise. I had the opportunity twice this past week to watch Carrim in action

We suspend our usual podcast programming this week to bring you a special edition of TalkCentral, featuring one of the pioneers of the Internet, Vint Cerf, who currently serves as Google’s chief Internet evangelist. Cerf, who was speaking to an audience at an event

Dimension Data, the Johannesburg-headquartered IT services group owned by Japan’s Nippon Telegraph and Telephone, wants to become a much more active player in South Africa’s mobile communications industry and has been involved in talks about potential deals that will help it do this

JSE-listed technology services group Business Connexion (BCX) has entered into an agreement to sell its entire interest in its Q Link business unit to Summit Garnishee Solutions (SGS).
SGS, which is a privately held company not related to BCX, has agreed to pay R187,5m in cash for the business

A massive fire on Wednesday at a factory in Wuxi, China owned by Korea’s SK Hynix could send flash memory and random-access memory (RAM) prices soaring. Hynix is the world’s second largest memory manufacturer. According to early reports on Chinese technology news websites and blogs, the fire has

Communications minister Yunus Carrim plans to hold a high-level meeting between broadcasters in mid-September, to be mediated by an independent third party, in an effort to resolve a simmering dispute over whether government-subsidised set-top boxes for digital terrestrial