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Interview: Craige Fleischer on the Samsung Galaxy S8
Head of mobile at Samsung in Southern Africa Craige Fleischer sat down with TechCentral editor Duncan McLeod to talk about the launch of the company's new flagship smartphone, the Galaxy S8, in South Africa. The conversation touches on everything from pre-orders of the phone in South Africa to how the…
Interview: Altron CEO Mteto Nyati
Interview: Altron CEO Mteto Nyati Just a month after TechCentral's podcast with former Altron CEO Robbie Venter, Duncan McLeod returns to the group's Parktown, Johannesburg head office to interview new CEO, and former MTN South Africa boss, Mteto Nyati. In this podcast, McLeod asks Nyati about growing up in Mthatha…
Just how secure is biometrics technology?
This is the third podcast in a series on information security. The focus in this interview, with HID Global vice president Greg Sarrail, is on biometric technologies. Though the focus is on fingerprint recognition technology, the conversation also covers iris scanning, voice recognition and facial recognition. Biometrics is taking off…
Interview: Cell C CEO Jose Dos Santos
Cell C CEO Jose Dos Santos sat down with TechCentral editor Duncan McLeod to talk about the state of the telecommunications industry in South Africa, in specific reference to ICT policy. In the podcast, Dos Santos explains why he thinks government's plan to mandate a national wholesale open-access network is…
Interview: SensePost CTO Dominic White
Dominic White is chief technology officer at SensePost and one of the top experts on information security in South Africa. In this podcast, White talks in detail about how people should secure themselves online - what they need to do to ensure they don't become a victim. It's a wide-ranging…
SA firms turn to 'hunting' to fight cybercrime
In the first of several TechCentral podcast interviews diving into cybersecurity issues, TechCentral editor Duncan McLeod sat down with Jacques Louw, director and head of cyber defence at MWR InfoSecurity in South Africa, to talk about how companies, especially in the financial services sector, are turning to "threat hunting" techniques…
Phuthuma Nhleko on the past, present and future of MTN
TechCentral's editor sat down with outgoing MTN group interim executive chairman Phuthuma Nhleko, who makes way on Monday for incoming group CEO Rob Shuter, to talk about the past, present and future of the telecommunications giant. In the interview, McLeod asks Nhleko about what he believes his biggest achievement was…
Robbie Venter and Sam Sithole on the future of Altron
Duncan McLeod sat down with Altron CEO Robbie Venter and Value Capital Partners (VCP) CEO Sam Sithole to discuss the huge changes the Altron group has been through in recent years. In this interview, listen to Venter talk about his plans to step aside later this year, the Venter family's…
Gareth Cliff, in defence of free speech
CliffCentral.com founder Gareth Cliff set out a robust defence of free speech at the Free Market Foundation in Johannesburg on Wednesday evening. It's a wide-ranging and fascinating presentation and subsequent discussion. Cliff has an important message to share at a critical juncture in the country's development as a democracy. (A…
SqwidNet CEO Reshaad Sha on IoT in SA
Dark Fibre Africa subsidiary SqwidNet is building a national Internet of things (IoT) network in partnership with France's Sigfox. The CEO of SqwidNet, Reshaad Sha, sat down with Duncan McLeod to talk about the roll-out plan, how it compares with IoT initiatives from the mobile operators as well as the…
ZAR X CTO Jim Brent on SA's new stock exchange
In this episode, Duncan McLeod chats to Jim Brent, the chief technology officer of South Africa's new stock exchange, ZAR X. Jim tells Duncan about how technology and telecommunications have lowered the barriers to entry to new players, in the process cracking the market open to competition for the first…
RS Components GM Brian Andrew on the new Raspberry Pi Compute Model 3
In this episode, Duncan McLeod chats to RS Components GM Brian Andrew to find out more about the recently launched Raspberry Pi Compute Model 3, and to get an update on how the Raspberry Pi low-cost computing devices are performing in the South African market.
Interview: Blue Cellular CEO Barry Taitz
Duncan McLeod chats to Blue Cellular founder and CEO Barry Taitz for insight into just how tough the economy in South Africa really is at the moment and the degree to which ordinary South Africans are struggling to get by. Taitz, whose company specialises in providing prepaid cellular products to…
Dobek Pater on SA's 'risky' ICT policy white paper
In this episode of the TechCentral Podcast, Duncan McLeod speaks to Africa Analysis MD Dobek Pater about the ICT policy white paper. Pater looks at why he believes the white paper is a threat to South Africa's ICT sector, how it could lead to a monopoly over infrastructure and why,…
Inside AlphaCode, SA's fintech start-up hub
In this episode of the TechCentral Podcast, we go inside AlphaCode, the Sandton-based club for fintech entrepreneurs built and operated by Rand Merchant Investments (RMI). The hub, which has already signed up more than a thousand members in its first year of existence, has invested R9m in 11 black-owned businesses…
South Africa's digital radio future
In this special TalkCentral podcast, TechCentral editor Duncan McLeod sits down with the experts on digital radio in South Africa to talk about the country's DAB+ and DRM trials, what's been learnt from them, and when consumers can expect commercial services to be launched. Also in the podcast, the panel…