Your hosts Duncan McLeod and Craig Wilson are back with the second episode of the fresh-look TalkCentral podcast. 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 Absa and Samro. We also
Reductions in the fees that mobile operators charge each other to carry calls between their networks have not hurt them financially, as they claimed they would. Nor have they led to higher retail prices, lower investments or retrenchments in the sector. These are some of the
Eyebrows have been raised at possible corporate breaches around the purchase of Shanduka Group’s minority stake in MTN Nigeria. Now a legal expert has warned that the holding company may have bigger problems making sure its agreement complies with new local and international legislation
After more than a year of testing, MTN South Africa will on Saturday launch its fourth-generation long-term evolution (4G/LTE) network on a commercial basis in Johannesburg, Pretoria and Durban. MTN confirmed on Friday that the network would go live on 1 December
JSE-listed computer assembler and technology distributor Mustek has sold its 41,8% stake in distributor Comztek to another JSE-listed IT company, Datatec, for R39,4m in cash and shares. Comztek’s only other major shareholder, its MD Paul Conradie – who also holds 41,8% of the equity
Brett Haggard, Steven Ambrose and David Greenway meet in the “fish bowl” for a discussion on everything from the new Asus Windows 8 devices to Sony’s 4K TV and from Black Friday and Cyber Monday to rumours that iTunes is coming to South Africa
I threw away a pair of Sony headphones a few weeks ago, not out of disgust or carelessness, but because after nearly 15 years of hard service they had finally stopped working. That, in a nutshell, is the Sony story. Since it was founded in 1946 – emerging literally out of the
Low download speeds and high costs are turning people away from fixed-line Internet connections, parliament’s communications portfolio committee heard on Thursday. Over the past three years, there had been a “dramatic” increase in the number of households opting to connect through
Absa is launching a new piece of hardware called the Pebble that can be used to accept payments from chip-and-pin or magnetic credit and debit cards using a mobile phone, tablet computer or PC. The retail-banking group has introduced the product, which is similar
Simfy Africa, the subscription-based Internet music streaming service, has expanded its catalogue to more then 20m songs, the company said on Thursday. The R60/month service has added several new catalogues, including from Paradise Entertainment
