In the first TalkCentral podcast of 2011, your hosts Duncan McLeod and Candice Jones find that that there is an enormous amount to chat about — surprisingly, given the silly season shutdown

Motorola this week unveiled its iPad rival, the Xoom, at the CES consumer electronics show in Las Vegas. The new tablet, which is the first to use the Android 3.0 “Honeycomb” operating system

Icasa has dropped a bombshell on the telecommunications industry. The industry regulator reckons Internet service providers and other telecommunications licensees are entitled — right now — to access Telkom’s local loop

The demand for electricity was set to increase by about 2% in 2011 as the country’s economy recovered, Eskom CEO Brian Dames said on Thursday. “Therefore, we are targeting every day

SA’s top online stores have all enjoyed marked growth over the same period last year, with some reporting up to 40% year-on-year sales increases. However, an analyst says the performance could

Europe’s SES group, which operates a worldwide fleet of more than 40 communications satellites, is establishing a bigger presence in SA ahead of the launch later this year of a new, high-capacity satellite

The first show of the year comes to you from Las Vegas, Nevada where the ZA Tech Show attended CES 2011. In the show: car makers at CES, Facebook’s US$50bn valuation, the storage revolution, tablet computers, Star Wars, Windows Phone 7, Windows 8, and much more

The battle over which standard SA will use for digital terrestrial television rages on, with a plan by the National Association of Manufacturers in Electronics Components (Namec) to contest a decision by cabinet in favour of the European system

We’re pretty used to hearing outlandish valuations on Internet companies that, if they were people, would be barely out of nappies. It happened during the first dot-com boom, and it’s happening again now. But news that Facebook is

Telkom says the deadline for unbundling the local loop, the “last mile” of copper cables that connects consumers to its network, is “unrealistic”. Telkom’s chief of corporate governance, Ouma Rasethaba