ZA Tech Show – Episode 63: ‘The next generation’

Jon Tullett leads our group of intrepid geeks this week, as Simon was away. Jon joins Duncan McLeod, Ben Kelly and Brett Haggard to discuss:

• The post-Vodacom debacle fallout.
• Cellular network reliability.
• More iPhone app blocking.
• Swine flu: the online story.
• Google Chrome 2 and the browser scene.
• 3d cinema tech.
• Microsoft’s Magic Wand patent.
• The Apple tablet. There appears to be more to the rumour.

And much more…

Our choice technologies of the week:

• Brett Haggard: Sun VirtualBox – free virtualisation platform.
• Ben Kelly: Stellarium – free open source planetarium for your computer and Moviestar – the iPhone app.
• Duncan McLeod: The new Star Trek movie.
• Jon Tullett: Kensington wireless mouse with nano receiver.

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1 Comment so far

Comment by Trekelny, posted on May 26th, 2009 at 20:27

Great job, guys! I was immediately minded of those chilling moments when the teacher had to leave the room full of boisterous and rowdy students, and instead of asking another teacher to watch over the little darlings (which would only have produced more of the same), the genius announces that one of their peers will be in charge. Everyone was on their best behaviour… for at least the first twenty minutes. Jon did splendidly and the conversation crackled.
Put me down for an Apple tablet or a late-model Kindle once the price gets below $150. Paper-cuts until then!

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