TechCentral editor Duncan McLeod caught up with Mark Shuttleworth, the man behind Ubuntu Linux, on Thursday and asked him about the future of Linux, patent battles in the software industry, his views on Apple and his future plans

SA Nokia users now have access to free real-time traffic data on their smartphones. Nokia SA has launched an update to the maps service and now offers real-time traffic conditions. Nokia Maps comes pre-loaded on all of the Finnish

Cell C will introduce new broadband products in the next few weeks and bring its long-running special offers, introduced a year ago, to an end. The company, which has rolled out 1 900 third-generation mobile broadband towers

Business Process enabling SA (BPeSA) Western Cape, an organisation that promotes contact centre and outsourcing, and the province’s department for finance, economic development & tourism have reached a deal with Internet Solutions

The SA Revenue Service (Sars) has come out in strong defence of a new ad valorem duty on computer monitors, saying it’s meant to protect the television industry, despite strong opposition to the new tax. Sars spokesman Adrian Lackay says it is

Cell C grew its subscriber base by 12% to 8,2m at the end of 2010, SA’s third-largest cellular operator said on Thursday. It was also on track to turn its first net profit “quite soon”, said chairman and acting CEO Simon Duffy. Announcing Cell C’s

SA is getting a new, corporate-focused telecommunications operator and Internet service provider. The company, OnedotCom, which is part of the same group that is supporting the construction of a R1,2bn fibre-optic communications

Inherent obsolescence is the perpetual problem with technology. Technological advances aside, companies need to keep bringing out new products so we’ll keep buying them. Hardware manufacturers are constantly trying to convince us

Sigma’s new 50-500mm F4.5-6.3 APO DG OS HSM is both a mouthful and a handful. Tipping the scales at almost 2kg, and with a 95mm filter thread, the initial temptation is to wield it like a grenade launcher. Sigma calls it the perfect all-round lens; most photographers

Google’s Android Market, Apple’s App Store, Nokia’s Ovi Store and BlackBerry’s App World together offer hundreds of thousands of free and pay-for apps. But finding the diamonds in the rough is often hard. These are some of my free favourites that run on both Android