It’s the last TalkCentral podcast of 2014. In this week’s show, your hosts Duncan McLeod and Regardt van der Berg chat about TechCentral’s Newsmakers of 2014 and why we chose who we did. Also on the special edition of the podcast this week, Duncan and Regardt pick the winner and loser
Parktown North has become the latest suburb where residents are working together to have an ultra-high-speed fibre-to-the-home network installed in their community. The Parktown North Ratepayers’ and Residents’ Association will work with Vumatel, the same company that is deploying
Telkom has deployed 4G/LTE-Advanced technology to five more South African suburbs, it said on Friday. This follows the launch of South Africa’s first commercial LTE-A service in November in the Johannesburg suburb of Parkhurst. The new suburbs to get the coverage, which offers wireless broadband
The clock of South Africa’s progress towards a knowledge-based economy has been turned back by at least a decade through two recent presidential proclamations. This has negative implications for our economic growth and inclusion of all our citizens in the interconnected world. It will cost us investment
Blue Label Telecoms is no longer in discussions with an unnamed party that had expressed an interest in buying it. “Shareholders are referred to the company’s cautionary announcement first made on 1 October 2014. Blue Label considers that insufficient progress has been made in relation
Vodacom is launching a campaign to create awareness around the dangers of texting while driving. The W8_2send (“wait to send”) campaign is centred on a game that can be played on a desktop PC or mobile device. The game challenges players to manoeuvre an animated car
As South Africans prepare for the summer holiday with lazy days of parties and fine food, Eskom says there will not be any disturbances caused by power cuts. “As it stands and things don’t change, the risk of load shedding is very low for today and the whole of December,” the Eskom media desk
Cabinet has devised a five-point plan to deal with the electricity crisis and set up a “war room” to implement it, minister in the presidency Jeff Radebe announced on Thursday. All attempts were being made to ensure the tight energy situation was
The Competition Commission has recommended to the Competition Tribunal that the proposed merger between Dimension Data’s Internet Solutions (IS) and…
Here they are, TechCentral’s South African Newsmakers of 2014. These are the individuals, in ascending order from five to one, who we believe were the most newsworthy in the technology and telecommunications space this year, for good reasons and bad. Also, check out our International Newsmakers
