ZA Tech Show – Episode 58: ‘On the late’

Posted on Tuesday, April 21st, 2009 at 13:06 by Simon and filed under Podcast episodes, ZA Tech Show.

Three geeks gather amidst public holidays to discuss:

  • Mobile broadband and then some.
  • The power of Chinese manufacturing.
  • Oracle to buy Sun Microsystems. What would this mean for MySQL?
  • Windows 7 RC1 leaked.
  • Netbooks, nettops and the operating systems that make them work.
  • Chips. Again.
  • Adobe pens deal to have Flash embedded in hardware.
  • Symantec announces detection of a Mac botnet.
  • Pirate Bay founders found guilty.
  • The new Nintendo DSi is apparently selling like hotcakes.

And more…

Our choice technologies of the week:

  • Brett Haggard: Live streaming IPL cricket.
  • Simon Dingle: Nambu – a Twitter client.
  • Jon Tullett: Nothing really, but sort of Travian.

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4 Comments so far

Comment by Jon, posted on April 21st, 2009 at 16:13

Re Silverlight: Simon mentioned that Silverlight was powering the IPL T20 website. That’s almost true (live games are using Silverlight, but are hosted by a different site), but attempting to view a game results in an error saying the content is not available in my region.

Fail.

Oh, and the movie clips on the T20 site itself are all Flash.

Double fail.

Comment by Simon, posted on April 21st, 2009 at 17:10

Actually, it was Brett who said everything was powered by Silverlight…

Comment by Edwin Watson, posted on April 21st, 2009 at 22:57

Glad to see it came out eventually!

Hey Simon burn your mate :P he is definitely not brining the beer to the next recording :D

The podcast is l33t! And the fact that there is some thing you guys talk about that I do own is just awesome :) TF2 FTW

I would also just like to take this time to mention that I can dispose of any unwanted blackberries.I will even do it free of charge :P

Comment by Windows 7 RC1 gets special Features, posted on April 27th, 2009 at 03:38

Windows 7 RC1 gets special Features…

However, the 7100i is arguably the most business- conscious device in the 7100- series. Not only does it support secure email access that consumers have come to expect from RIM, but the BlackBerry 7100i also provides push- to- talk technology and full-…

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