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The year is barely two weeks old and the technology space is already crazy-busy. In the second TalkCentral podcast of the new year, your hosts Duncan McLeod and Craig Wilson bring you another packed episode in which we look at the investment plans for France Telecom’s Orange in South Africa

South Africa’s seemingly neverending migration from analogue to digital terrestrial television has been so beset by problems for so long that it would be almost comical if the repercussions for the country’s economy weren’t so serious. It’s been more than a year since South Africa

Welcome to the first TalkCentral podcast of the new year. Your hosts Duncan McLeod and Craig Wilson bring you a packed episode in which we consider some of big news coming out of the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Also this week we

The new year in technology starts off with a bang with the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. As in 2012, a lot of focus at CES this year is on innovation in television as manufacturers push to enormous screens with much higher resolutions. There’s almost a sense of urgency

From Samsung’s Android-powered Galaxy S3 to Nokia’s Windows Phone-powered Lumia 920, it’s been a banner year for technology innovation and a real treat for gadget junkies. What, then, were the best tech toys of 2012? I’m fortunate enough in my job to

Silly season has descended and your hosts Duncan McLeod and Craig Wilson present the final episode of the fresh-look TalkCentral podcast for 2012. 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 MTN and Net1 UEPS Technologies

Primedia-owned cinema chain Ster-Kinekor is investing R180m over a 12-month period in decommissioning all of the 35mm film projectors in its movie houses around the country and in replacing them with newfangled digital projectors – and, in some cases, fancy new surround-sound audio systems, too

Your hosts Duncan McLeod and Craig Wilson are back with the another episode of the fresh-look TalkCentral podcast. It’s also our second-last podcast of 2012. 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 Microsoft and Apple

Last week, my Android-powered smartphone, which had just been upgraded to Jelly Bean, the latest version of the software, popped up a message warning me that it would take nine minutes longer than normal to get to my next meeting, in Midrand. The reason, it said, was that there was a traffic

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