Your hosts Duncan McLeod and Craig Wilson are back with the another episode of the fresh-look TalkCentral podcast. It’s also our second-last podcast of 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 Microsoft and Apple

Despite Johannesburg’s position as South Africa’s economic hub, Cape Town is often considered the country’s technology start-up capital. A new technology hub in the city of gold, called JoziHub, may help in starting to change that. JoziHub, which will be launched in the first quarter of next

Proposed amendments to the Icasa Act, which governs the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa, have come under heavy fire, with critics warning the changes hand too much power to communications minister Dina Pule. After two years of inaction, government has revived the Icasa

Apple’s smaller, 7,9-inch iPad has landed on South African shores, along with the new full-sized, fourth-generation iPad. The iPad mini, as the smaller variant is called, starts at just R3 399, which is particularly well priced given the product costs $329 in the US and the rand has weakened substantially against

Standard Bank will begin including contactless payment technology in new credit and cheque cards, allowing customers to make payments using the “tap-and-go” method, rather than them having to have their cards swiped or inserted into a chip reader. All new gold and titanium credit and

Pretoria and Cape Town are home to two of the most advanced forensic laboratories in the world, but the biggest limitation to their efficacy is the lack of a national and standardised DNA database. Major-general Adeline Shezi of the South African Police Service’s forensic services division says the country has

Democratic Alliance MP and shadow communications minister Marian Shinn has called on communications minister Dina Pule to take “whatever legal steps necessary” to withdraw the appointment of Rubben Mohlaloga as a councillor of the Independent Communications Authority of SA

The opposition Democratic Alliance’s annual report card of the cabinet is in, and communications minister Dina Pule has not emerged well, receiving an “E” for her performance in 2012.

“Pule’s involvement in the ICT Indaba scandal and her hand in the year of missed opportunities at Telkom

With fewer than 1m broadband digital subscriber lines in service in South Africa, and longstanding exclusive rights to content held by local media companies, there is little demand for – and huge complexity involved in – bringing video content to the

Broadband access in South Africa has more than doubled in the past two years, as mobile operators slashed the cost of data and network roll-out accelerated. This is revealed in new data contained in the final version of the “Internet Access in South Africa 2012” study, released on Thursday. The study was conducted by