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49:59

TC|Daily | Michael Markovitz: ‘My five years on the...

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2022/11/07

You’ll be hard-pressed to find anyone in South Africa as passionate about public broadcasting as Michael Markovitz. A former journalist whose storied career has included serving as adviser to Mandla Langa, the former chairman of communications regulator Icasa, Markovitz has just completed five eventful years as a member of the SABC board. He joins Duncan McLeod in the TC|Daily studio to talk about his experiences at the public broadcaster and why, despite its “capture” under former President Jacob

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33:37

TC|Daily | TV white spaces - the current state of...

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2022/11/02

Television white-spaces (TVWS) spectrum – the gaps in the frequencies used by terrestrial TV broadcasters – has long been seen as a way of bringing affordable Internet to even remote areas. But what’s happened with the various TVWS initiatives in South Africa? Keith Pitout, a leading local expert on the subject and chief technology officer of Indigo Broadband, joins TechCentral’s Duncan McLeod in the TC|Daily studio to unpack the latest developments – and to explain why he believes TVWS has a bright

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33:49

TC|Daily | Vumatel's audacious plan to take fibre to...

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2022/10/31

The leadership teams at Vumatel and Vuma parent Maziv don't dream small. The company, South Africa's largest provider of fibre-to-the-home broadband infrastructure, has an audacious plan to deploy fibre not only to townships - a project that is already well under way - but also to informal settlements. It doesn't intend doing this via wireless for the "last mile". It wants to deploy a fixed-fibre connection into every house and into every dwelling, even if the household's total income is less than

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33:44

Everything PC S02E06 - 'The gear we want, the gear we...

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2022/10/28

What's the coolest PC tech in the world right now, the stuff we just have to have, budget be damned? In the final episode of season 2 of Everything PC, hosts Duncan McLeod and Gerhard Pretorius try to answer this question by picking 10 of the very best bits of tech available today, from insane monitors, like Samsung's new Odyssey Ark, to AMD's screeching-fast latest desktop processors. Basically, the tech we are lusting after right now. Everything PC season 2 is sponsored by HP and Microsoft. Until

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22:07

Impact Series | Telviva Engage: omnichannel customer...

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2022/10/28

The context of how businesses engage with customers is vital: it reassures clients that they have been heard. Clara Wicht, Telviva senior product and marketing manager, and Rob Lith, chief commercial officer, join James Erasmus to discuss current developments in the customer service industry in this Impact Series episode. Long gone are the days of PBXes and Post-it notes. Customers engagement is becoming more unified, and agents are now more empowered to respond with a single view of the customer’s

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46:48

TC|Daily | Netstar CTO Cliff de Wit on IoT, AI and...

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2022/10/26

Cliff de Wit, a former Microsoft South Africa director and now chief technology at Altron's Netstar, is passionate about many things: skills development, the internet of things, artificial intelligence ... even astrophotography. He joins TechCentral's Duncan McLeod in the TC|Daily studio for a wide-ranging -- and fascinating -- discussion on some of the latest technologies Netstar is exploring that take the company's offerings well beyond the traditional tracking and recovery of vehicles it's

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50:12

Impact Series | Audi's Sascha Sauer on the shift to...

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2022/10/24

Sascha Sauer, the head of Audi South Africa, believes local electric vehicle sales are poised for take-off, despite challenges such as high importation taxes and customer concerns about load shedding. In this TechCentral Impact Series interview, Sauer says South Africans have started taking a much keener interest in electric cars, with a wide range of electric vehicles having been introduced into the local market in the recent past – and more to come. Models already available locally from Audi are

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24:09

TC|Daily | What's next for Showmax, with...

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2022/10/23

Meet the man behind Showmax. As chief operating officer of MultiChoice Connected Video, Barry Dubovsky is leading the charge to bring the 2022 Fifa World Cup to Showmax Pro in 4K. Dubovsky joins Duncan McLeod in the TC|Daily studio to chat about what has been involved in getting Showmax ready for the World Cup, and what the plans are for bringing other content to the platform in 4K once the global football event has concluded. An Australian national who has previously worked for telecommunications

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55:10

Everything PC S02E05 - 'A window on HP'

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2022/10/21

In this special episode of Everything PC, HP Southern Africa regional director Yesh Surjoodeen and Microsoft South Africa chief operating officer Colin Erasmus are in the studio. They join show hosts Duncan McLeod and Gerhard Pretorius for a discussion on what they do best in this show: personal computers, with a focus on Windows 11. HP and Microsoft are sponsors of season 2 of Everything PC. In the discussion, Erasmus talks about how Windows 11 has been received by the local market. He also unpacks

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41:51

TC|Daily | MultiChoice CEO on 4K, DStv Glass and the...

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2022/10/19

The launch of 4K for the 2022 Fifa World Cup, the development of DStv Glass smart TVs, the launch of uncapped fibre services, and more – it’s been a busy period for South Africa’s incumbent pay-TV operator. MultiChoice South Africa CEO Nyiko Shiburi joins TechCentral’s Duncan McLeod in the TC|Daily studio to chat about all the announcements the broadcaster made at its recent DStv Showcase event, and what we can expect from the company in the months ahead. In the discussion, Shiburi talks about: •

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57:37

TC|Daily | How MoyaApp is taking on WhatsApp, and...

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2022/10/17

The “data-free” messaging app MoyaApp, which already has six million active monthly users in South Africa, is working hard to become as big as WhatsApp in the country. The app’s founder, Gour Lentell, joins Duncan McLeod on TechCentral's technology show, TC|Daily, to talk about how the development of the app is progressing. Lentell talks about the history of MoyaApp, how it’s able to offer “data-free” messaging to people who don’t have data or airtime, and why he believes this is a winning

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1:10:24

Everything PC S02E04: - 'Mac, Mac, Mac, Mac, Mac, Mac'

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2022/10/14

This is the South African technology show all about personal computers. This season of Everything PC is sponsored by HP and Microsoft. In episode 4 of season 2, hosts Duncan McLeod and Gerhard Pretorius tackle the world of Mac and macOS. They discuss: * What Apple does well and what Apple doesn't do well * The benefits and disadvantages Apple's "walled garden" * Windows vs macOS * Gerhard's view of macOS as a hardcore PC user - spoiler: he's not at all complimentary * The poor repairability of Apple

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33:10

[TC|Daily] Alviva Holdings: champagne results, a...

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2022/10/12

Alviva Holdings’ latest financial results show a group firing on all cylinders – full-year dividend up 90%, revenue up 57% and headline earnings per share up 91%. But can the party last? Group CEO Pierre Spies and Craig Brusden, CEO of technology distributor Axiz (Alviva’s largest subsidiary), join Duncan McLeod in the TC|Daily studio to unpack just how the group managed to turn in such stellar results amid a weak local economy and a constrained global supply chain. Spies and Brunsden unpack: • The

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29:24

Impact Series | Maxtec and Orca Security – why public...

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2022/10/10

Unless you have 100% visibility and are continuously scanning your cloud environment, you are vulnerable. According to recent research by Orca Security, 78% of identified attack paths use known vulnerabilities (CVEs) as an initial access attack vector. This is significant because most entry points that are exploited can relatively easily be prevented since these CVEs are already known and the vast majority already have remediations available. Praven Pillay, MD of Maxtec and Sagy Kratu, director of

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44:21

TC|Daily | Q-KON’s Dawie de Wet on big changes...

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2022/10/10

There has never been a more exciting time to be in the satellite communications industry, says Dawie de Wet, CEO of Pretoria-based Q-KON. In this episode of TC|Daily, De Wet, who is one of South Africa’s leading experts in satellite communications technology, tells TechCentral editor Duncan McLeod about the huge changes happening in the satellite space and what they mean for consumers and for industry. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to get the latest episodes of TC|Daily In the interview, De Wet

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1:13:07

Everything PC S02E03 - 'Linux, Linux (almost)...

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2022/10/09

This is the South African technology show all about personal computers. This season of Everything PC is sponsored by HP and Microsoft. In episode 3 of season 2, hosts Duncan McLeod and Gerhard Pretorius have a look at the world of open-source software and Linux. They discuss: * The latest tech news * Why Linux runs on everything - from toasters to the cloud - except the desktop * OpenOffice and Libre Office * Why Linux mail clients are so poor? * How Microsoft learned to love Linux - or did it? *

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47:28

TC|Daily | Saving Cell C: an interview with Douglas...

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2022/10/06

Spare a thought for Douglas Craigie Stevenson. The Cell C CEO is leading one of the most complex and difficult business turnarounds in South African corporate history. Craigie Stevenson tells TechCentral's Duncan McLeod in this episode of TC|Daily that it's been a stressful few years for the company's management team, but that the long-delayed but recently concluded recapitalisation of the mobile operator's balance sheet has finally put it on a much more sustainable footing. It could all have gone

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45:27

TC|Daily | Jonas Bogoshi on what's next for BCX - and...

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2022/10/05

In many respects, South African IT services firm BCX is at a crossroads. The storied company, which is now owned by Telkom, may soon bring in a strategic equity partner. The industry is also facing significant changes, with the shift to cloud changing the business propositions of traditional systems integrators - BCX among them. CEO Jonas Bogoshi joins Duncan McLeod in the TC|Daily studio for a wide-ranging discussion on the changes sweeping the industry. He talks about everything from the state of

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24:03

TC|Daily | Behind the Sasol Solar Challenge, with...

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2022/10/03

Rob Walker, owner and director of the Sasol Solar Challenge, joins TechCentral’s TC|Daily to chat about the biennial event that sees local and international teams “racing” entirely solar-powered vehicles across the length and breadth of South Africa. Founded in 2008 by now GridCars CEO Winstone Jordaan (himself a recent guest on TC|Daily), the 2022 edition of the Sasol Solar Challenge has just concluded. In this episode of TC|Daily, Walker, who bought the event from Jordaan in 2019, talks about the

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1:18:20

Everything PC S02E02 - 'The house that Bill built'

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2022/10/02

This is the South African technology show all about personal computers. This season of Everything PC is sponsored by HP and Microsoft. In episode 2 of season 2, hosts Duncan McLeod and Gerhard Pretorius chat everything Windows and Microsoft. Among other things, they discuss: * Does Microsoft still care about Windows? * Does the operating still matter? * Windows 11 - how is it, and are we getting Windows 12 soon? * Does Microsoft really love open source and Linux? * Windows as a service and Windows

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