ZA Tech Show: Episode 36

Posted on Monday, November 3rd, 2008 at 08:11 by Simon and filed under Podcast episodes, ZA Tech Show.

In this week’s episode we cover:

  • Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri’s appeal against the Altech ruling being denied. Cry me a river.
  • What self-provisioning will mean for telecoms in South Africa.
  • We investigate the exclusion of games and podcasts from the South African iTunes store.
  • The banning of Opera Mini from the iTunes App Store.
  • Gears of War 2 being launched this week.
  • FPS games on console versus PC.
  • Crossover’s ‘Lameduck’ promotion.
  • Gaming in Linux and OS X using WINE.
  • MMORPGs. Bear with us.
  • Firefox’s China Channel extension that simulates the Great Firewall of China.
  • Google introduces service level agreements for its application services.
  • OpenOffice.org extensions.
  • The introduction of Windows Azure, and cloud services hosting in general.
  • Windows 7 and SP2 of Vista.
  • Sony recalls 100 000 batteries predominantly used in Toshiba and HP notebooks, but also Dell, Acer and Lenovo.
  • Retired hardware dumping in the developing world.

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7 Comments so far

Comment by bob, posted on November 3rd, 2008 at 11:49

Hi guys… just check this out, http://www.macrumors.com/2008/11/02/opera-mini-not-rejected/
Seems that Opera was not quiet rejected from App Store.

Comment by Steve, posted on November 3rd, 2008 at 14:23

anyone notice that many pages seem to be blocked when using the opera mini (nokia e71) on the vodacom network? Yet i can access the same pages on the native browser. (And no, they not naughty sites). The conspiratorial side of me is wondering whether the data compression techniques of opera mini irritate the network providers? Using Opera mini certainly makes surfing the mobile web cheaper.

Comment by Nic Callegari, posted on November 4th, 2008 at 09:03

About Gears of War on PC. I played it extensively on PC and I found it quite natural to use the keyboard and mouse combination. The “hide and shoot” cover system works very well using keyboard and has been adopted in a number of other PC games – BiA: Hell’s Highway and Sainbow 6 Vegas & Vegas 2… I’m actually lost without this cover system in FPS games on PC now – it’s such a cool concept.

That said, Gear of War on PC was hellishly buggy and crashed regulalry but I think it was a graphics card issue. Changed from GeForce 8600 GTS to ATi Radeon HD4870 and it runs like a dream….

Comment by Tyrone, posted on November 5th, 2008 at 21:42

Hey Guys,
The show is generally good, however John’s winging and whining over every little thing gets tired. And I’ve commented on this on one of Bens blogs too (but I didn’t check back to see if he followed up). He (John) needs to get over himself, seriously. I’m now quite into ZA CAR show which is great. They seem a pretty cool easy going bunch. You guys have your panties in a knot too much of the time…mostly John. Maybe he needs the punani :P

Comment by Jon, posted on November 7th, 2008 at 15:33

Hey, I don’t hate everything, only things that are rubbish. And I can’t help it if everything’s rubbish, can I?

Besides, someone has to counter Brettski’s boundless geeky optimism.

Comment by Steve, posted on November 10th, 2008 at 10:54

Nah Jon, don’t listen. You are the star of the show. Always interested in your opinions.

Sound on this episode was perfect.

Comment by Toby, posted on November 10th, 2008 at 21:37

I pronounce it “More Pee Gee” (MMORPG). Flows easier, I think :-)

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