ZA Tech Show: Episode 34

A somber group of geeks gather this week to talk about:

• The Rand-Dollar exchange rate and what it means for prices of technology in South Africa.
• Vodafone’s purchase of Telkom’s share in Vodacom in the face of the current economic crisis.
• Apple’s new range of Macbook portables that will arrive locally at massive prices.
• New graphics technology and how the ATI and Nvidias of the world are taking things to the next level.
• Lenovo’s new Thinkpad models with extended battery-life.
• OpenOffice.org 3 and the vast improvements it introduces to everyone’s favourite free office suite.
• The power of Outlook.
• IBM Lotus and how the brand has progressed.
• The iPhone App Store and how Android’s approach will stack up, along with mobile device management for corporates, and some of Duncan and Brett’s favourite applications on the iPhone.
• Games and other applications excluded from the South African iPhone App store.
• Zune availability and how Microsoft has addressed the media player market.
• The new iPod Nano’s shake function, and what we think of the new range, having had some time to play with them.
• The awesomeness of Gmail and its mobile site.
• Barack Obama’s online campaign and how it has bolstered his success.
• Pandora, Last.fm and other services that use the Music Genome Project being reinvented on the iPhone.

And more…

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3 Comments so far

Comment by Andre, posted on October 27th, 2008 at 15:22

Great show. Are you guys trying to get an answer out of Apple as to why the Games category is not available in SA? Would love to hear the reason.

Comment by Simon, posted on October 27th, 2008 at 16:12

Hi Andre

We’ve asked the people at Vodacom, since Apple aren’t exactly approachable. Hopefully we’ll have an answer for you soon.

Comment by Andre, posted on October 28th, 2008 at 12:06

Hi Simon.

Good luck with that. I emailed Vodacom with the same question and I got the following responce:

“Dear Andre

Thank you for your e-mail communication to Vodacom.

Please note that you would need to contact Apple on 011 719 9161 (charged call) so they may assist with regards to Apple iTunes.

Should you have any further queries, please contact us via e-mail at customercare@vodacom.co.za.

Kind Regards

Candice Petersen”

Called the number and it is no longer Apples number. So, like I said good luck with that.

A.

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