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Archive for September, 2008

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Posted on September 29th, 2008 by Simon

Our special guest on episode 31 of the ZA Tech Show is Chris Ross, managing executive for sales at Vodacom, and the man responsible for bringing the iPhone to the South African market. This week we cover:

• The launch of the 3G iPhone in South Africa this week.
• The HTC Dream G1 is the first phone to market based on Google’s Android operating system.
• Minister of Communications, Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri was president for a day, thanks to the political turmoil in South Africa. And we survived, surprisingly. But Alec Erwin is gone, so perhaps we’ll get through the next year with power for our gadgets.
• The Cisco website was hacked recently, with all of the letters ‘t’ being removed from its content.
• Vox Telecom losing 30 million rand this week in a securities deal.
• Social networking service ‘E’ launched at Picnic in 2008.
• It was Jon’s birthday on the day we recorded, which sparked a discussion of his hate for… well… everything.
• Brett would switch to Windows for Digsby – which now supports LinkedIn. Hey, he said it.
• Iron – a streamlined browser based on Chrome, that improves browser security and adds support for the new WebKit. We also touch on Internet Explorer 8.
• Vista only boots on a single processor, unless you tell it not too. This conversation presented the perfect point at which to end the show…

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