Ben Kelly and Dave Greenway join Brett Haggard in studio this week to discuss:

• Mango in-flight WiFi.
• FNB GeoPay.
• The long-awaited launch of Diablo 3.
• The WACS cable system going live.
• Cell C price cuts.
• Apple dropping the 4G tag on iPad in some regions.
• The first 802.11ac routers shipping.

Our technology picks of the week:

• Ben Kelly: IMO in the iTunes Appstore and TableTop by Geek & Sundry.
• Dave Greenway: Lost to Lumia on Youtube and Kenji Ishida’s Brave Robot no. 8.
• Brett Haggard: Nanocount .

There’s a lot to poke sticks at on this week’s ZA Tech Show as Arthur Goldstuck, Brett Haggard, Nic Callegari and Simon Dingle discuss:

• The prospects for BlackBerry 10 OS.
• Smartphone ecosystem lock-in.
• iTunes and other content services launching in South Africa.
• How stupid the FPB is.
• Banning mobile phones in SA schools.
• Samsung’s Galaxy S3 reveal.
• Huawei’s new Android tablet, approved by Google.
• FNB GeoPay.

Our technology picks of the week:

• Arthur Goldstuck: Sony Xperia NXT, the Education App Guide by Core, and the new iPad.
• Nic Callegari: DocuSign Inc. for iPad.
• Simon Dingle: Adobe Reader for iPad.
• Brett Haggard: Blue Cableyoyo and Cool Feet.

This week your panel contains the technical prowess of Dave Greenway, analytical mastery of Steven Ambrose and Simon Dingle, who’s OK. We suppose. They discuss:

• New iPad pricing and launch in South Africa.
• HTC’s new Android powerhouses.
• A sneak at Samsung’s next Galaxy smartphone.
• Intel’s Ivy Bridge reveal.
• New Macs on the way.
• Adobe CS 6 and Adobe Cloud.
• The shift from pro at Apple.
• Windows 8 editions.
• Uncapped ADSL data price reductions.
• Diablo’s 15 May launch.

This week’s technology picks:

• Steven Ambrose: HTC One X and Kingston SSD Now
• David Greenway: Microsoft Exchange and SorryForMay15.com
• Simon Dingle: Asus Transformer Prime.

Conversation takes its own course in this week’s episode as Brett Haggard, Craig Wilson, Sam Beckbessinger and Simon Dingle end up discussing:

• The new iPad launching in SA.
• Instagram being swallowed by Facebook.
• Skype and the perils of acquisition.
• Windows 8 and lowest-common-denominator computing.
• Life automation.
• Ultrabooks.

Our technology picks of the week:

• Brett Haggard: Cinch.
• Sam Beckbessinger: Microsoft Word and Memolane.
• Craig Wilson: Brushes and Adobe Ideas.
• Simon Dingle: Dropbox Automator.

Sam Beckbessinger is back at the reigns this week, joining Ben Kelly and David Greenway to discuss:

• Our favourite online April Fools’ Day pranks
• Rumours about the SKA project and IBM’s exascale computers
• Telkom’s FTTH trials and IPC cuts
• Ashton Kutcher as Steve Jobs
• The controversial “Girls Around Me” app
• MTN in Iran
• Oddities of the Internet in China
• Glimpses of the new SimCity

Our technology picks of the week:

Dave Greenway: Playstation Vita and Play-Fame.
Ben Kelly: Geek & Sundry.
Sam Beckbessinger: Draw Something, Revenge of the Nerds and Screenshots of Despair.

Arthur Goldstuck, Ben Kelly and Brett Haggard are your resident geeks this week, who discuss:

• Allan Knott-Craig’s Cell C aspirations for a 25% market share.
• Spectrum running out in the USA.
• What regulators in SA should be doing.
• Neotel hitting 100000 consumer customers.
• Apple’s NanoSim debacle.
• Windows 8 and Apple chinks in the armour.

Your crew this week consists of Andy Hadfield, Brett Haggard and Dave Greenway who discuss:

• Andy and Brett’s experiences from SxSW.
• The Nike+ Fuelband.
• Apple’s share buyout and dividend announcement.
• The new iPad.
• Hardcore gaming – dead or happier than ever?

Our technology picks this week:

• Andy Hadfield – Highlight.
• Dave Greenway – Air Video, Adonit Jot Stylus, Olloclip.
• Brett Haggard – Windows 8 consumer preview.

You might think that this here internet broadcast is about technology. And usually you’d be right. In this episode, however, Craig Wilson, Nic Callegari, Toby Shapshak and Simon Dingle do a terrible job of attempting to discuss:

• Apple’s “new iPad” sellout.
• Windows 8 looking good and redeeming old machines.
• Nokia tablet rumours.
• The anniversary of MIME.
• Rumours of a new Xbox to come in 2013.
• Marvel’s introduction of AR comics.
• The Canon EOS 5D MK III.
• Instagram for Android announced at SxSW.

Our technology picks of the week:

• Nic Callegari: Mass Effect 3.
• Toby Shapshak – Swell bamboo iPad covers.
• Craig Wilson: Cobook and Airfoil.
• Simon Dingle: Limbo.

We welcome another newcomer to the show this week when Dave Greenway joins Jon Tullett, Simon Dingle and Steven Ambrose to talk through:

• Steve’s feedback from Mobile World Congress 2012.
• Google’s dominance in mobile.
• Battery issues and inductive possibilities.
• Windows 8 Consumer Preview.
• Diablo III beta going live.
• ICASA spectrum allocation.

Our technology picks of the week:

• Dave Greenway: Teracopy and Calibre eBook manager.
• Jon Tullett: The notion that Google should buy Evernote.
• Steven Ambrose: Scalado technologies.
• Simon Dingle: Waze.

We have more gadgets than panelists in the studio this week. Arthur Goldstuck, Ben Kelly, Nafisa Akabor and Simon Dingle unpack their backpacks and discuss:

• News from the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.
• Nokia’s 41MP camera phone and its significance.
• BlackBerry’s PlayBook 2.0.
• The launch and our initial impressions of the Sony PS Vita.
• The Standard Bank versus FNB Twitter spat.
• Arthur’s 7″ tablet roundup.

Our technology picks of the week:

• Nafisa Akabor: Tweetbot.
• Ben Kelly: Dropbox Camera Upload and Option Xyfi.
• Arthur Goldstuck: BlackBerry Curve and Roy Blumenthal.
• Simon Dingle: Stitcher.