Wow! TechCentral’s inaugural Tuesday Tipple went off with great success last night. Nearly 100 geeks showed up to enjoy the evening with us at The Brazen Head pub in Bryanston, north of Johannesburg.

Oh, the sick, sick irony. Media organisations, the plucky little Davids in the corner of the ring, being battered by the grim Goliaths of governments trying to curtail freedom of the press, are now telling us that WikiLeaks is

JSE-listed multinational IT group Datatec has sold 26% of its SA distribution business, Westcon SA, to the Mineworkers Investment Company for R28m.

Internet service provider MWeb is working with broadcaster MultiChoice on the option of launching a bundle of uncapped broadband, pay TV, and possibly even voice telephony to SA consumers

The mass release of thousands of confidential cable communications by WikiLeaks has sparked huge debate around the world about whether the international whistle-blower site was right to do it.

MultiChoice added more than 360 000 new subscribers in SA in the six months to 30 September, handily beating its new rival On Digital Media, which launched TopTV in May

Cell C is “going for Telkom’s jugular with its new rates” and is no longer playing in the same field as SA’s other mobile operators, says an analyst. Less than a month ago it

Episode 17 of TalkCentral, TechCentral’s weekly podcast, is ready to go. This week Duncan McLeod and Candice Jones talk about the decision by a Southern African

Robert Mugabe is “the crazy old man” — as branded by international relations and cooperation minister Maite Nkoana-Mashabane — ANC members gave confidential information

The BlackBerry. Traditionally used by men in grey suits — bankers, accountants and lawyers. If you used a BlackBerry, you were a corporate nerd, tied to your company’s e-mail system.