Speculation has again surfaced that a deal between Dimension Data and MWeb is on the cards, eight months after TechCentral first reported on apparent preliminary discussions between the two companies. The speculation then went cold. This time around, though, the focus appears
Author: Regardt van der Berg
BMW South Africa and Schneider Electric have announced a partnership for the supply and installation of charging points for BMW’s electric vehicles, which will go on sale locally early next year. Schneider will work with BMW electric car
At TechCentral, we get called on average at least once a week – sometimes far more often – by a friendly sounding Indian national warning us that our Windows computer is infected with a virus. The call, which originates from a call
The Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (Icasa) has failed to communicate its council decisions on its website as required by the legislation that governs it, the Democratic Alliance said on Tuesday. The Icasa Amendment Act states that
Vumatel, the company that won the project to deploy fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) broadband in Parkhurst in Johannesburg, broke first ground on the project on Monday. The first trench was dug in a street outside Parkhurst Primary School. The fibre telecommunications start-up
JSE-listed Times Media Group, which owns a range of newspaper and other media assets, will launch a video-on-demand product next month. Called Vidi, the service, which will compete with pay-television operator MultiChoice
Earlier this week, Old Mutual in Namibia unveiled a deal with Tranwall of Hong Kong to implement South African-developed “transaction control” technology on the OMcard, a prepaid Visa card that was developed specifically for Old Mutual customers in that country. The technology behind
The term 4K has become synonymous with with the next generation of high-definition displays. Technically speaking, 4K is the rating used to denote a resolution of 4 096×2 160 pixels, but the term has been adopted by many consumer technologies that are in fact
As many as 400 jobs may be on the line at MTN South Africa, sources close to the company say, as the telecommunications operator moves to cut costs in a market that has become significantly more competitive. MTN is considering a number of options as it looks to reduce costs
Dash cameras are not just novel gadgets to record the often strange things that happen on South African roads. They also come in useful in the case of an accident, helping the police and insurance companies determine what happened. Garmin recently launched its first product in this