This was undoubtedly the week for uncapped broadband news, with MTN, Telkom and iBurst all announcing new products. Your TalkCentral hosts, Duncan McLeod and Craig Wilson, unpack all the announcements and what they mean. Also in this week’s podcast, we
Insomniac Games has tried desperately this console generation to become a serious contender for the first-person shooter crown held by Halo and Call of Duty. Yet it has been unable to turn its Resistance series into a triple-A franchise despite the profile Resistance: Fall of Man
MTN SA MD Karel Pienaar has scotched rumours that the mobile operator is in talks to buy Wireless Business Solutions (WBS), the parent company of wireless operator iBurst. Pienaar tells TechCentral that MTN has held exploratory discussions with iBurst
Telkom’s Internet service provider, TelkomInternet, has unveiled a “bouquet” of uncapped fixed-line broadband services, starting at R219/month. TechCentral revealed the operator’s plans to introduce uncapped services on Thursday
MTN has been running a long-term evolution (LTE) trial in recent weeks in parts of Johannesburg and Pretoria. TechCentral’s Craig Wilson put the network through its paces and was suitably impressed. LTE is a mobile broadband system that some network
Have you ever considered how hard it is to actually do things? Build a bridge? How hard can that be? Write the Google algorithm? It’s just a string of words, piece of cake! Connect to the Internet? What could be easier? As an accountant, I tend to oversimplify and
SA’s incumbent fixed-line network operator Telkom may be planning to announce uncapped consumer broadband digital subscriber line (DSL) products on Friday, with the offerings being introduced commercially as early as next month, TechCentral has learnt from a
Public enterprises minister Malusi Gigaba is one of the country’s most prominent politicians and one of the few from the ANC on Twitter. Here he recounts how he came to grips with the medium. It’s been an exciting journey since I first joined Twitter in June
BlackBerry maker Research in Motion (RIM) is losing its second regional director in four months to rival Samsung Electronics. Craige Fleisher, RIM’s regional director for Southern Africa, will be joining Samsung Electronics Africa on 1 October, TechCentral has
With the announcement of the Kindle Fire on Wednesday, Amazon.com hasn’t just entered the tablet market aggressively: it may be about to change it fundamentally. The product is groundbreaking because it deftly addresses the two most pressing issues for
