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ZA Tech Show: Episode 35

Posted on October 27th, 2008 by Simon

The whole gang is back together for Episode 35. We discuss:

Tech stocks plummeting and the prospect of buying into the market. Yet. Telkom or MTN? Which stocks should you be looking at – or is this really not the time to be buying?
The coming barrage of acquisitions. Potentially. Will Sun be bought? Will Microsoft buy RIM? What will happen to Facebook and Twitter in the current market?
Microsoft has a big announcement coming this week. We speculate about what this announcement, concerning a cloud operating system, could be.
Cloud computing in general.
Apple’s reaction to Microsoft’s recent (and very expensive) ad campaign.
Will Microsoft stop producing Office for Mac?
Mail and PIM applications and services.
An urgent security patch for Windows.
Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex is in final testing and is being launched at the end of this month.
What Linux needs… and what it doesn’t.
The netbook space, and the smartphone market’s impact on it.
More on the iTunes App Store and Apple’s curious exclusion of content from the South African store.
Mobile application distribution.
The source code for Android being released as open source. Watch out for versions coming for just about every phone out there… and with Symbian and Android being open source, what will the future hold for Windows Mobile?
Neotel’s new voice tariffs and other offerings on the way.

And more…