Meet the CEO is a new, weekly feature on TechCentral. The aim is to introduce our readers to the people behind the news by providing insights into the leaders shaping South Africa’s ICT industry. Our fifth interview
Spectrum is the lifeblood of the telecommunications industry. The more “high-demand” spectrum a service provider has, the higher the capacity and better the quality of the service it can provide. Freely tradeable spectrum
President Cyril Ramaphosa has put in place a process that will deal with the issue of e-tolls, according to the Gauteng provincial government. “The process has started and the president himself is going to lead
The term “fake news” has gained prominence in recent years thanks to US President Donald Trump’s attacks on the media during the 2016 US election. In 2017, it was one of Collins English Dictionary’s 2017 words of
The fresh disclosures about the Cambridge Analytica affair are dismaying for Facebook, and they were getting a lot of deserved attention on Wednesday. But what happened at the shadowy political consulting
Facebook spent much of Wednesday outlining ways that the privacy of its two billion users might have been compromised for years by the company’s lax data policies. The shares rallied anyway after CEO Mark
Energy minister Jeff Radebe has signed agreements with 27 independent power producers after more than two years of delays. The deals promise to revive South Africa’s renewable energy programme that was once the
Apple is working on touchless gesture control and curved screens for future iPhones, projects that may help the company differentiate its most-important product in an increasingly crowded market, according to
In this episode of the TechCentral podcast, Duncan McLeod talks to Internet Solutions senior research engineer Roger Hislop about television white-spaces spectrum and how the technology could be used to
Former Dimension Data CEO Brett Dawson has invested R10m into Gather Online, a social discovery and messaging platform, and will join the company’s board as chairman. The money will be used to expand