Browsing: Duncan McLeod

What a news week! In the latest edition of TechCentral’s TalkCentral podcast, your hosts Duncan McLeod and Craig Wilson unpack the news that Convergence Partners, the technology investment vehicle of Dimension Data Africa chairman Andile Ngcaba, wants to work with partners to build a wholesale, open-access

Apple is introducing new features to its Mac OS X operating system that sometimes appear somewhat counterintuitive and are slowly driving this writer to consider alternatives. I admit I was a reluctant convert to Apple, but switched to the Mac platform with the release of Mac OS X 10.5

Telkom came out guns blazing at Competition Tribunal hearings this week, warning that if it were fined the maximum allowed for alleged anticompetitive behaviour last decade, its business could be put in jeopardy. Does the fixed-line operator have a point or is it all just grandstanding? In its closing

Exactly one year to the day since Stephen Elop unveiled Nokia’s new strategy and its partnership with Microsoft, TechCentral brings you a special edition of the TalkCentral podcast: a roundtable interview with the Nokia CEO himself. Listen as Elop talks about the future of the Windows Phone ecosystem

Corporate IT departments have a big challenge on their hands. Their users are bringing all sorts of newfangled devices like smartphones and tablets into the work environment and expecting them to interact seamlessly with their companies’ IT systems. Employees love these gadgets and

Jeffrey Hedberg’s short-lived tenure as chief operating officer of Altech and CEO Craig Venter’s very public reaction to his resignation appear to reflect deep underlying tensions in the Venter family empire. Can Altron founder Bill Venter, now 77, hold the family-run

Christo Davel, former head of now-defunct online bank 20twenty, sparked intense debate and provoked security warnings from local banks last week when he took the wraps off his new venture, personal financial management website 22seven. The start-up got itself noticed. But is the service safe to use?

Looking around SA, it’s hard to believe BlackBerry maker Research in Motion (RIM) is in trouble. The BlackBerry remains South Africans’ smartphone of choice but in developed markets consumers are shunning it in favour of alternatives. The resignations this week of long-serving

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

Two themes dominated the giant Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas last week. One was the incredible advances in television technology; the other was the emergence of thin and lightweight Windows-powered PC laptops called “Ultrabooks”. The Ultrabook category is set to dominate the