In this episode of TalkCentral, your hosts Duncan McLeod and Craig Wilson dive into the big technology stories of the past week. And the story that dominated the news this week, of course, was the sacking of communications minister Dina Pule. We look at the new minister, Yunus Carrim, and
Telkom has failed to reach an agreement with trade unions Solidarity and the South African Communications Union (Sacu) in a long-running wage dispute. Discussions reached deadlock on Friday, making it increasingly likely that Telkom will face industrial action. The wage dispute, which
Cell C has won its latest skirmish with Vodacom at the Advertising Standards Authority, this time over an advertisement its bigger rival ran in a Sunday newspaper last month promoting its international tariffs. Cell C, through its advertising agency, lodged a competitor complaint against Vodacom over
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It’s often the case that the bigger and more successful the company, the more difficult it is to innovate because of the number of conflicting agendas at play. The creative team may be wanting to push boundaries, but with executives watching the bottom line, left-field ideas often live and die on the drawing board
Since Yunus Carrim’s appointment as new communications minister this week, people have been asking him: “What the hell do you know about this area?” He then reminds them that he trained as a journalist. In addition to completing a BA honours and master’s degree in sociology at
Calling it the “next chapter in smartphone photography”, Nokia on Thursday night launched the Lumia 1020 phone, complete with a 41-megapixel camera. “We’ve made the back the new front,” CEO Stephen Elop told the packed Zoom Reinvented launch event in New York, where the 1020’s impressive camera features
Telkom’s newly appointed group CEO, Sipho Maseko, has bought shares worth almost R1m in the JSE-listed telecommunications operator. Maseko bought 52 000 shares on Thursday, 11 July, worth R990 080. The purchase came on the same day that Telkom Mobile slashed prepaid voice tariffs to
Telkom Mobile has slashed prepaid call tariffs to 29c/minute on per-second billing for on-network calls and to 75c/minute to all other networks. The new prepaid tariff plan, called Sim-Sonke, is “expected to blow the competition out of the water by offering the lowest standard mobile call rates in the country”, Telkom says in a statement
Very few black students get to do maths-based courses at university. This is because very few black students do maths as a subject for matric. Most are being encouraged to do maths literacy instead. This subject does not prepare one for a course at university that requires a maths foundation
