ZA Tech Show: Episode 47
Posted on Monday, February 2nd, 2009 at 6:27 pm by Simon and filed under Podcast episodes, ZA Tech Show.Simon Dingle, Brett Haggard, Duncan McLeod and Candice Jones from ITWeb feature in this week’s episode, discussing:
- MacOS X on netbooks.
- The Gears of War DRM lock-out.
- DRM fueling piracy.
- The BlackBerry Storm, launched recently in South Africa.
- Will Apple’s multi-touch patents stop the Pre?
- Laying fiber in the Johannesburg rain.
- Solar-powered traffic lights.
- Improvements in Telkom ADSL performance.
- Neotel versus Telkom.
- Mobile data prices and the possibility of price-cuts.
- The Faritec fall and Intel posting losses.
- Brett’s Nehalem platform and the processor market.
- Acer getting into the smartphone market.
- Nokia launching music service locally.
- When will the likes of Apple get real and recognise the SA market?
- The ‘Obama Worm’.
- Some of our panelists’ favourite new thingies.
And more…
6 Comments so far
Comment by Duncan McLeod, posted on February 2nd, 2009 at 10:58 pmLeon Jacobs, posted on February 3rd, 2009 at 11:25 am
Re syncing Macs with Blackberry. Try Missing Sync at your own peril. I have, and it deleted around 10% of my contacts out of my Address Book.
It DOES NOT play well with the Bold.
I agree with the fact that Apple is “condoning” the hackintosh distributions. Take a look at this: http://www.efi-x.com/index.php?language=english
As cool as a Hackintosh might be, it is anathema!! But hey, here’s a cool chart comparing the different netbooks running OSx, seems lenovo & dell come up trumps.
Come on guy’s, “Pick of the Week” would be a cool feature, especially if you include pricing and availability, on hardware & software available in SA… come on… you CAN do it, yes you can!
And, um, Candice would be cool if she was on EVERY week, something about her voice, ever so sexier than you guys.
Thanks for a great show!
My pick of the week: Quake Live
oops…. OSX netbook chart can be found here:
http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2008/12/17/osx-netbook-compatib.html
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Love the bulldog soundtrack in this episode.