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Your crew this week consists of Andy Hadfield, Brett Haggard and Simon Dingle. They discuss Alan Knott-Craig taking the reins at Cell C, Jeffrey Hedberg leaving Altech, BlackBerry’s CEO shuffle, Microsoft’s renaissance post Gates, CEO Twitter rockstars and social networking in 2012, and much more

Duncan McLeod, back from Las Vegas and the Consumer Electronics Show (CES), joins Craig Wilson in the studio this week to talk about the musical chairs among SA technology executives, looking at, among other developments, the resignation of Jeffrey Hedberg from Altech and the appointment of Alan Knott-Craig

Jeffrey Hedberg has resigned as Altech’s chief operating officer less than nine months after joining the JSE-listed technology group, adding to a growing exodus of top management. Hedberg, a US national who was previously acting group CEO at Telkom, was appointed to Altech

SA’s telecommunications industry has become “a bit boring” and “looks too settled”, says new Cell C CEO Alan Knott-Craig, who was named on Thursday as Lars Reichelt’s successor at the mobile operator. He appears keen to change that, promising big changes at Cell C, with a special focus on social networking, mobile broadband

Newly appointed Cell C CEO Alan Knott-Craig, who joins the mobile operator on 1 April when his restraints with his former employer, Vodacom, come to an end, says he is “fit and healthy” and is “looking forward” to being back in the telecommunications

Former Vodacom Group CEO Alan Knott-Craig was on Thursday named as new CEO of Cell C, replacing Lars Reichelt, who resigned from the mobile operator in 2010. Cell C is holding a media briefing at 11am, after which we’ll bring you more insight into the the appointment and Knott-Craig’s plans for the company

Speculation is growing that former Vodacom Group CEO Alan Knott-Craig will be appointed as Cell C’s new CEO, replacing Lars Reichelt, who resigned last year. TechCentral understands from sources close to Cell C that an announcement about his appointment to the top job

It is a perversion of SA’s broadband sector that wireless players punch above their weight. More than 21m South Africans use a wireless connection to access the Internet — with a tablet, smartphone or dongle — whereas fewer than 800 000 subscribe to an ADSL broadband connection. This is according to the Organ­isation for Economic

And here they are. TechCentral’s top five newsmakers of 2011. Our “Newsmakers of the Year” award is presented to individuals we believe had the biggest impact on SA’s technology sector in the past 12 months. For the most part, they’re also the the people who made the headlines during the

Another tumultuous year is almost at an end for the SA information and communications technology industry. It was a year of falling telecommunications prices, increasing competition, upheaval in politics and drama in the regulatory environment. Our “Newsmakers of the Year”