ZA Tech Show: Episode 35
Posted on Monday, October 27th, 2008 at 5:03 pm by Simon and filed under Podcast episodes, ZA Tech Show.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…
8 Comments so far
Comment by Mitch, posted on October 28th, 2008 at 11:05 am
Ok – I found it!
But i must ask why the link to prev podcasts is “hidden ” on the comment post page ??
Mitch
Hi Mitch
We made some changes to the theme for the site and there are some hiccups that we are working on. Thanks for pointing out that links to older episodes are missing. We will sort this out ASAP.
Hi guys,
I normally commend you super great shows but this week the sound wasn’t great. I could hear Simon perfectly but couldn’t hear Duncan that well.
Still, great, quality show. There must be some podcast awards we can nominate you for.
Oh, and on Enterprise collaboration I think MS does stand up to IBM. SharePoint has literally commoditised ECM products and has alsmot become like an infrastructure type deployment within organisations around the world.
Granted, it doesnt do a great job with records management, but with IBM you need a separate product for search, collaboration, document management portal and web content management.
With MS its just SharePoint – it does it all. And its alot more affordable than its competitors.
Love the show, listen to it every week.
Definitely some sound issues with people sitting too far away from the microphone? I couldn’t hear some of the speakers at times.
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Ben,
Good luck with your new career, but please, don’t leave ZATS? I hope that the offer they made you includes you having to leave work early on a Friday afternoon so that you can record ZATS. 
Good luck!
There is absolutely nothing wrong with iWork as an alternative to Office for Mac. Pages is pretty decent, Numbers has pretty phenomenal design improvements over Excel and I don’t know how anyone can use PowerPoint after trying Keynote. All three apps have an intuitive, free feeling to them.
That said, I am downloading OpenOffice out of curiousity to see how it goes. Thanks for the reminder.
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Hi Guys
Where is Ep34 ??
Pls guide me to where i can download it.
Thanx
Mitch