Silly season has descended and your hosts Duncan McLeod and Craig Wilson present the final episode of the fresh-look TalkCentral podcast for 2012. In this week’s show, we look at the top three news stories of the last seven days and pick our winner and loser of the week – this week it’s MTN and Net1 UEPS Technologies
Telkom’s share price jumped more than 4% in intraday trading after it announced the appointment of five independent nonexecutive directors to fill posts vacant since October. The share closed up by 3,5%, a rare strong move for a company whose share price has tumbled by almost 45% over the past year
Almost five years after then communications minister Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri published South Africa’s first policy document on digital terrestrial television migration, the country’s broadcasting regulator will publish its final regulations. Needless to say these regulations have been a long time
E-tolling of Gauteng freeways got the legal nod on Thursday when the high court in Pretoria on Thursday dismissed an application to have the project scrapped. “The application is dismissed,” Judge Louis Vorster said, reading out his judgment. “In my view the application cannot succeed.” Vorster
Simon Dingle returns to the show this week, along with Brett Haggard and Arthur Goldstuck in a discussion on iTunes in South Africa, Microsoft Sync in the Ford Focus, BlackBerry’s chances of survival, the excellent new Linux Mint, Steamboxes and much more
South Africans can now buy and rent movies in Apple’s iTunes Store, less than a week after the US company began offering music purchases in the local version of the online store. Recent movie titles are available to rent for R39,99 each. Early investigations show they can be bought for between
Three government websites that were disrupted by a hacker over the weekend were defaced, not hacked, the State Information Technology Agency (Sita), which hosts the sites, said on Tuesday. “Sita is confident of its work and capacity to secure government information
The ZA Tech Show welcomes two newcomers this week, as Brett Haggard hosts Liron Segev and Julian Pienaar. Among other things, they discuss the South African launch of the iPhone 5, MTN and LTE, the birthday of SMS, iTunes 11, and much more
Former Vodacom CEO Pieter Uys is among 22 people who have been appointed by communications minister Dina Pule to advise her department as it prepares to overhaul the legislation that governs South Africa’s information and communications technology (ICT) sector. Other well-known people
Social media has evolved at breakneck speed over the past three years, and many marketers are battling to keep up with it. Today, social media isn’t just an experiment, but a fast-maturing sales, marketing and customer support channel. This implies that organisations should no longer imagine that
