Brett Haggard, Nic Callegari and Simon Dingle talk their way through;

Back at our home studio this week, the panel includes Brett Haggard, Duncan McLeod and Simon Dingle who discuss:

• The Tech4Africa conference.
• Tech in Africa and the local start-up space.
• How Telkom went wrong.
• The Mesh Potato project.
• Dustin tells us about his Twitter usage and Erin about working at Apple.
• And much more…

Our technology picks and pick-ons of the week:

• Basheera Khan – Picks: Keynote Wireframe Toolkit.
• Duncan McLeod – Picks: Android 2.2 ‘Froyo’.
• Dustin Diaz – Picks-on: Gmail for messing up the iPhone mobile client.
• Erin Caton – Picks: African Avenue and picks-on: SmugMug for iPad.
• Ivo Vegter – Picks: Seesmic.
• Simon Dingle – Picks-on: Disco.
• Toby Shapshak – Picks: Tech4Africa.

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Ben Kelly, Brett Haggard and Jon Tullett are our panelists this week, joining Simon Dingle to discuss;

Our technology picks and pick-ons of the week:

• Brett Haggard – Picks: Synergy.
• Ben Kelly – Picks: An iPhone 3G speed improvement tip.
• Jon Tullett – Picks: Starcraft II and  the BBC’s Global Experience Language.
• Candice Jones (from the chat room) – Picks: Paper.li.

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Our panel this week includes World Wide Worx Strategy’s Steven Ambrose, TechHuman.com’s Brendon Ambrose with regulars Brett Haggard and Simon Dingle. They discuss:

Our technology picks and pick-ons this week:

• Brett Haggard: Wireless audio-soundcard-streaming-type device from Mustek, Epson TX700 and Seagate Momentus XT solid-state hybrid drive.
• Simon Dingle: Starcraft II.
• Steven Ambrose: Samsung Galaxy S.
• Brendan Ambrose: Samsung X360.

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Your panel this week consists of Ben Kelly, Duncan McLeod, Jon Tullett and Simon Dingle who discuss:

• The iPhone 4.0.1 update and antennaegate.
• Ebooks, audio books and the reading renaissance.
• Smart business on smartphones.
• Inductive charging with Powermat and others.
• Microsoft Kinect local pricing.
• Console gaming.
• Facebook reaching 500 million users.
• Undersea bandwidth cables.
• Spectrum allocation and ICASA’s delays.

Our technology picks (or pick-ons) of the week:

Brett Haggard and Simon Dingle talk their way through an interesting tech news week with acquisitions, much-ados about nothing and veins of awesomeness.

• The iPhone 4 storm in a teacup.
• The flood of business news this week including MTN, Naspers and Dimension Data.
• YouTube’s partner programme going live in South Africa.
• More hints at BlackBerry 6.
• Windows Phone 7 for developers.
• Converged devices.
• Movement in the ebook space.

Our technology picks and pick-ons of the week:

• Brett Haggard – Picks:  Guacamole.
• Simon Dingle – Picks: Angry Birds.

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With Seacom down and the World Cup approaching its final weekend Ben Kelly, Duncan McLeod and Simon Dingle gather to discuss:

• The Seacom outage.
• The local loop barrier for bandwidth.
• The possibility of the rumoured Google ‘Newspass’ pay wall for content.
• Wired magazine and its device strategy.
• Google Me.

Our technology picks and pick-ons of the week:

• Duncan McLeod – Picks: Layar, Google Googles and Sky Map.
• Ben Kelly – iRewardChart.
• Simon Dingle – Sony’s HT-CT150 sound system and Qualcomm’s new augmented reality SDK.

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Your panel of tech pundits this week includes Brett Haggard, Candice Jones and Duncan McLeod who join Simon Dingle to discuss:

Our technology picks and pick-ons of the week:

• Simon Dingle – Picks: Samsung Galaxy S and Tungle.me.
• Duncan McLeod – Picks: HTC Desire and Zimbra.
• Candice Jones – Picks: Nintendo 3DS.
• Brett Haggard – Picks: VMWare Fusion 3.1 and GOG.com.

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Simon Dingle and Ben Kelly more than compensate for their puny absent fellow panelists this week as they discuss:

• Apple’s iOS 4 in practice, and the launch of iPhone 4.
• Android fragmentation.
• The newly launched Samsung Wave and Bada operating system.
• Mobile app developer headaches.
• Vodacom’s LTE demo.
• Government’s official definition of ‘broadband’.
• Telkom helping its competition along, and the company’s latest results.
• Slashing of ebook reader prices.
• Safari 5′s Reader feature, Instapaper and other reading tricks.

Our picks and pick-ons of the week:

• Ben Kelly – Picks: Dave Henson’s world cup songs and  YoruFukurou Twitter client.
• Simon Dingle – Picks: Super Mario Galaxy 2.

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