Your panel this week consists of Ben Kelly, Duncan McLeod, Jon Tullett and Simon Dingle who discuss:

• The iPhone 4.0.1 update and antennaegate.
• Ebooks, audio books and the reading renaissance.
• Smart business on smartphones.
• Inductive charging with Powermat and others.
• Microsoft Kinect local pricing.
• Console gaming.
• Facebook reaching 500 million users.
• Undersea bandwidth cables.
• Spectrum allocation and ICASA’s delays.

Our technology picks (or pick-ons) of the week:

Brett Haggard and Simon Dingle talk their way through an interesting tech news week with acquisitions, much-ados about nothing and veins of awesomeness.

• The iPhone 4 storm in a teacup.
• The flood of business news this week including MTN, Naspers and Dimension Data.
• YouTube’s partner programme going live in South Africa.
• More hints at BlackBerry 6.
• Windows Phone 7 for developers.
• Converged devices.
• Movement in the ebook space.

Our technology picks and pick-ons of the week:

• Brett Haggard – Picks:  Guacamole.
• Simon Dingle – Picks: Angry Birds.

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Simon Dingle and Ben Kelly more than compensate for their puny absent fellow panelists this week as they discuss:

• Apple’s iOS 4 in practice, and the launch of iPhone 4.
• Android fragmentation.
• The newly launched Samsung Wave and Bada operating system.
• Mobile app developer headaches.
• Vodacom’s LTE demo.
• Government’s official definition of ‘broadband’.
• Telkom helping its competition along, and the company’s latest results.
• Slashing of ebook reader prices.
• Safari 5′s Reader feature, Instapaper and other reading tricks.

Our picks and pick-ons of the week:

• Ben Kelly – Picks: Dave Henson’s world cup songs and  YoruFukurou Twitter client.
• Simon Dingle – Picks: Super Mario Galaxy 2.

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Brett Haggard and Jon Tullett join Simon Dingle to discuss:

• The Gautrain. Trains are technology, right?
• The new ACE undersea cable that will run up Africa’s West Coast.
• Telkom’s next moves.
• Contention ratios – why are they secret?
• Monopolies and comebacks.
• R&D at Microsoft.
• iPhone 4.
• The WirelessG iPod deal.
• Google StreetView in SA and custom homepages.

Our picks and pick-ons of the week:

• Jon Tullett – Picks: Manufactoria.
• Brett Haggard – Picks: iPad Camera Connection Kit and Freedom™ by Daniel Suarez.
• Simon Dingle – Picks and picks-on: Sony Vaio P Series and picks: Red Dead Redemption.

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Stafford Masie returns to the show this week, joining Ben Kelly, Brett Haggard, Duncan McLeod and Simon Dingle to discuss:

• WayTag, one of Stafford’s new projects.
• The role of content in telecoms.
• Predictions for Apple’s WWDC event.
• The realities surrounding cloud computing.
• Computational biology, quantum computing, the singularity and a general chat on scary computing futures.
• The evolution of storage.
• Discussions at the recent D Conference.
• Taking social media to corporate.
• Spectrum auctions in SA and Skyrove entering the fray.

Our picks and pick-ons of the week:

• Brett Haggard – Picks: DownStorm.
• Ben Kelly – Picks: Twitter for iPhone.
• Stafford Masie – Picks: Huddle.
• Duncan McLeod – Picks: Marca’s World Cup calendar.
• Simon Dingle – Picks and Picks-on: Multichoice’s new DStv HD PVR 2P decoder.

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The crew this week consists of Brett Haggard, Duncan McLeod, Steven Ambrose and Nic Callegari. They discuss:

• An update from Icasa’s recent stakeholders’ meeting.
• Spectrum allocation in South Africa.
• The ISPA call for mandatory voice line rentals to be dropped on ADSL connections.
• Internet line speed and quality tests.
• World Wide Worx’ The Mobile Internet in SA 2010 research.
• Samsung Bada and the mobile app war.
• Microsoft Communicator for Nokia phones.
• Apple’s market capitalisation surpassing Microsoft’s for the first time.
• Microsoft Office 2010.
• DStv’s HD PVR P2 decoder.
• Monitor technology and the rise of OLED.

Our picks and pick-ons of the week:

• Duncan McLeod – Picks: Cred.
• Steven Ambrose – Picks: Samsung PL150.
• Nic Callegari – Picks: PayCity, RunPee, Maximus Cards and MifiClub.
• Brett Haggard – Picks: Iomega ScreenPlay TV Link Director Edition.

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This week Brett Haggard, Duncan McLeod and Simon Dingle drink some wine, eat some chinese and discuss:

• MTN’s “Uncapped” mobile “broadband”.
• MWEB’s “uncapped” wireless broadband.
• Google’s Chrome Web Store and Google TV.
• The cloud race featuring Canonical, Google, Microsoft and Apple.
• Microsoft Office 2010 Starter Edition.
• The explosion of TopTV and price reductions for DStv.
• 900Mhz mobile broadband.
• The Linkbook.

Our picks and pick-ons of the week:

• Simon Dingle – Picks: Iomega iConnect and Alan Wake.
• Brett Haggard – Picks: Ubuntu Netbook Remix and Daemon by Daniel Suarez.

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Our panel this week consists of Brett Haggard, Duncan McLeod, Jon Tullett and Simon Dingle. We discuss:

• The new iPhone prototype. They’re everywhere now. We’re so over it.
• Duncan’s fantastic TechCentral Debate Series telecoms panel.
• Fibre rollout in SA.
• Vodacom’s Linkbook netbook.
• Ubuntu Linux 10.04.
• Steam for Mac (and maybe Linux too).
• Recovery in the tech sector.
• The Facebook privacy debacle.

Our picks and pick-ons of the week:

• Simon Dingle – Picks: Steam for Mac.
• Brett Haggard – Picks: Pocket Legends.
• Duncan McLeod – Picks: Vintage Kings Quest and Just Cause 2.
• Jon Tullett – Picks: The Humble Indie Bundle.

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Duncan McLeod and Simon Dingle brave traffic, flu and chat-room critics to discuss:

• Progress at Cell C.
• Telkom Mobile’s prospects.
• DStv On Demand.
• The realities of uncapped ADSL access in SA.
• ODM’s TopTV launch and the overwhelming demand for the service.
• TechCentral’s Debate Series debut.
• All the announcements from BlackBerry WES 2010.
• New Android devices.
• Rumours of a Nokia tablet.
• Xbox Live.
• Half-Life 2: Episode 3.

Our picks and pick-ons of the week:

• Duncan McLeod: Picks – Parallels Desktop 5.
• Simon Dingle: Picks - Xbox 360 Wireless N Networking Adapter.

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Jon Tullett is your host this week with Ben Kelly, Brett Haggard and later Duncan McLeod on the panel. We discuss:

• Seacom’s outage and its impact on connectivity in SA.
• HP’s acquisition of Palm.
• The launch of TopTv and DStv Lite.
• Delays in Digital Terrestrial Television (DTT) migration.
• The launch of Ubuntu Linux 10.04 LTS.
• Online shopping.
• The Apple vs. Adobe debacle.

Our picks and pick-ons of the week:

• Duncan McLeod: Picks – Garmin FM Traffic, coming soon to SA.
• Ben Kelly: Picks – iFixit.
• Brett Haggard: Picks – Air Video for iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad.
• Jon Tullett: Picks – MakroShop.

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