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Sentech in dire straits

Sentech in dire straits »

State-owned signal distributor Sentech is in dire straits. A submission from the company’s board to parliament reveals its auditors are concerned about its ability to continue as a going concern. TechCentral is in possession of...

September 2 2010 / No comment / Read More »
With M-Pesa, Vodacom takes aim at cellular rivals

With M-Pesa, Vodacom takes aim at cellular rivals »

Kenyan telecommunications operator Safaricom has increased its market share from about 60% three years ago to over 80% on the back of its M-Pesa cellphone money transfer service. Now Vodacom is hoping to emulate those...

August 31 2010 / No comment / Read More »
Vodacom aims for 10m M-Pesa users

Vodacom aims for 10m M-Pesa users »

Vodacom expects to sign up 10m M-Pesa mobile money users within three years. The telecommunications operator's director in charge of the product’s launch, Romeo Kumalo, revealed the ambitious target during the product’s launch in Midrand,...

August 31 2010 / 8 comments / Read More »

News

No big bandwidth bang with Eassy »

No big bandwidth bang with Eassy

The East Africa Submarine System (Eassy) cable has not made the sort of splash on the SA broadband market as many had expected it...

Sep 2 2010 / No comment / Read More »

Microsoft forecasts clouds over Africa »

Microsoft forecasts clouds over Africa

Microsoft may eventually build two data centres in Africa, possibly in SA, to serve the continent, but no decisions have been made yet. However,...

Sep 2 2010 / No comment / Read More »

The Grid goes global »

The Grid goes global

The Grid, Vodacom’s somewhat rival to Naspers’s MXit social chat service, is going global. After launching the service in Nigeria and Tanzania in 2009,...

Sep 2 2010 / No comment / Read More »

Give fund’s R1bn to Telkom, says MWeb »

Give fund’s R1bn to Telkom, says MWeb

In a surprising move, MWeb is lobbying government to give Telkom the more than R1bn in cash stashed away in the universal service fund...

Sep 1 2010 / 3 comments / Read More »

Kelly Group mum as Mdwaba takes a holiday »

Kelly Group mum as Mdwaba takes a holiday

Ousted Kelly Group director Mthunzi Mdwaba will have his say at disciplinary hearing on 22 September. Until then, sources say, he has been placed...

Sep 1 2010 / No comment / Read More »

Podcasts

ZA Tech Show: Episode 126 – ‘Sci-Fi’ »

ZA Tech Show: Episode 126 – ‘Sci-Fi’

Brett Haggard, Nic Callegari and Simon Dingle talk their way through: DStv On Demand available from more Internet service providers Online gaming Pay television and content licensing Google Voice integrating with Gmail Science fiction iPad competitors MTN getting the iPhone The global Garmin Nuvi recall...

Aug 30 2010 / No comment / Read More »

TalkCentral: Episode 8 – ‘Reinstated’ »

TalkCentral: Episode 8 – ‘Reinstated’

It's Friday again and that means another episode of SA's business technology podcast, TalkCentral. This week, your hosts Duncan McLeod and Candice Jones delve into the ongoing drama at the department of communications, where fired communications department director-general Mamodupi Mohlala has been reinstated -- at...

Aug 27 2010 / No comment / Read More »

ZA Tech Show: Episode 125 – ‘ZA Te©h Show’ »

ZA Tech Show: Episode 125 – ‘ZA Te©h Show’

We're back in our home studio this week. Your panel, of Brett Haggard, Duncan McLeod and Simon Dingle, discuss Brett's new website, 3D television, Telkom's 10Mbit/s ADSL upgrade, MTN's planned rural broadband network, Cell C's branding controversy, and much more...

Aug 23 2010 / No comment / Read More »

After Hours

Bad Lieutenant: caged fury »

Bad Lieutenant: caged furyNicolas Cage stars in two films that open on SA screens this week. Unfortunately, you’ll really need to hunt to find a cinema showing the...

Aug 27 2010 / No comment / Read More »
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People

Paris in his springtime

Paris in his springtime

It’s not surprising to see Paris Mashile, former chairman of the Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa), more relaxed than before. Less than a week ago he was one of the most prominent...

Jul 6, 2010 / More »

Debate Series

Broadband debate – podcast and pictures

Broadband debate – podcast and pictures

On Tuesday, 11 May, TechCentral hosted the inaugural TechCentral Debate Series event at the First National Bank conference centre in Sandton, north of Johannesburg. The event, sponsored by Dimension Data division Internet Solutions,...

May 12, 2010 / More »

Reviews

ZTE S306 review: a phone for gramps

ZTE S306 review: a phone for gramps

At first glance, the S306 from Chinese telecommunications company ZTE looks like it’s meant as a joke. With its gigantic buttons, it looks like something that would be most appropriate in the hands...

Sep 1, 2010 / More »

Start-ups

‘You are your own worst enemy’

‘You are your own worst enemy’

A technology start-up’s biggest enemy is technology itself, says local business incubator Aurik Business Accelerator. Aurik CEO Pavlo Phitidis says technology innovation often becomes the be all and end all of a start-up...

Aug 23, 2010 / More »

Matthew French

Databases at dawn

Databases at dawn

Choosing a database product to keep all your important data safe can be a very simple task, or a tremendously complicated and fractious ordeal. It is easy when you don’t have a choice....

Jul 19, 2010 / More »

Candice Jones

ISPs forced to play Russian roulette

ISPs forced to play Russian roulette

Last week, well-known casino Piggs Peak shut down its online service after a high court ruling effectively outlawed Internet-based gambling in SA. It was a long battle that dated as far back as...

Aug 30, 2010 / More »

Duncan McLeod

The shame that is Sentech

The shame that is Sentech

Sentech is dysfunctional. That’s the gloomy picture painted by the state-owned company’s board in a presentation it was meant to give to parliament last week. But the company was prevented from delivering the...

Sep 2, 2010 / More »

Nathaniel Borenstein

A disturbance in the force

A disturbance in the force

The Internet is quietly being replumbed. That shouldn't surprise anyone involved with it; the Internet is always being replumbed. But you might be more surprised to learn that the next few years will...

Aug 30, 2010 / More »
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