A triumvirate of Craig Wilson, Stafford Masie and Simon Dingle form your panel in this week’s high-quality episode of everyone’s favourite podcast. Their words, not ours. Aside from a side-discussion involving steroid sport leagues we manage to discuss several technology topics, including:

• The quantified self movement.
• Broadband promises from politicians.
• PS Vita and the future of gaming.
• Content blocks and licensing.
• The future of the future.
• Hoverboards.
• Kickstarter.
• Social identity curators.
• Samsung Galaxy Nexus launch and pricing.
• Technology agnosticism.
• Apple’s OSX Mountain Lion.

Our technology picks this week:

• Craig Wilson: Fingle for iPad.
• Stafford Masie: Code Year.
• Simon Dingle: SwiftKey X, Pizza vs. Skeletons, Gmail app for iOS.

It’s a night of mayhem in the studio as Sam Beckbessinger, Brett Haggard, Andy Hadfield and Nic Calligari discuss:

• MTN’s weird new data bundles.
• New Twitter policies for Sky News and BBC journalists.
• Declining standards of blogging & online journalism.
• iPad 3 speculation.
• Amazon opening physical stores.

Our technology picks & pick-ons of the week:

• Sam: writeordie and Wunderkit.
• Andy: Alice: The Madness Returns, Best of 2011 Longform and (a pick-on) YouTube’s terms of service.
• Nic:  Pivotal Tracker iPad app and Apple accessories (a pick-on).
• Brett: The 7th Guest for iPad.

Nafisa Akabor makes her debut on this episode, joining Ben Kelly, Brett Haggard and Steven Ambrose to discuss:

• Apple’s iPhone business now being bigger than all of Microsoft.
• Apple TV Speculation.
• Windows Phone 8 with the same kernel as Windows 8.
• Google TV from 3.2 to 4.0.
• Experiences with the Nokia Lumia 800.
• Skype going fully integrated with Windows 8 and Phone.
• BlackBerry OS 7.1 and Tablet OS 2 for the PlayBook.

We test everything from Brett’s time-keeping abilities to Ben’s patience and the new Nokia Lumia smartphones in this episode of the ZA Tech Show. Join Ben Kelly, Brett Haggard, Sam Beckbessinger and Simon Dingle as we discuss:

• Nokia’s Lumia 800 launch.
• The furore over 22seven.
• Facebook IPO rumours.
• Inside Google.
• The Megaupload bust.
• The end of piracy.

Your crew this week consists of Andy Hadfield, Brett Haggard and Simon Dingle who discuss:

• Alan Knott-Craig taking up the reins at Cell C.
• Jeffrey Hedberg leaving Altech.
• BlackBerry’s CEO shuffle.
• Microsoft’s renaissance post Gates.
• CEO Twitter rockstars and social networking in 2012.
• Google Plus.
• Windows 8 and Metro updates.

Our technology picks this week:

• Andy Hadfield: Modern Combat 3.
• Brett Haggard: Velodyne vPulse headphones and Kingston Wi Drive.
• Simon Dingle: In the Plex by Steven Levy.

We focus our conversation this week on what are likely to be the big areas of tech news in 2012. Simon Dingle is back from CES in Las Vegas, joined by Sam Beckbessinger, Craig Wilson and Ben Kelly to discuss:

• The future of television and the hints provided at CES.
• An overview of the Consumer Electronics Show 2012.
• New tablets on the way.
• i’m Watch and i’m Core.
• The Google-Mocality debacle.
• Online content.

Our technology picks this week:

• Sam Beckbessinger: OpenSignalMaps and Minecraft.
• Ben Kelly: Grand Theft Auto 3 for iPad and The Trenches.
• Craig Wilson: PocketHipster and F.Lux.
• Simon Dingle: Yamaha RX-A1010.

With a lot of our crew at CES in Las Vegas, Samantha Beckbessinger and Nic Callegari man the ZA Tech Show fort this week. They discuss:

• Exciting news coming out of CES.
• Whether there’s any such thing as an “ultrabook”.
• New TVs running on Android and Ubuntu.
• The One Laptop Per Child Project’s new tablet.
• Online music sales finally beat out CD sales in 2011.
• DStv BoxOffice Online beta trial.
• Kodak about to file for bankruptcy.
• Poor matric results in maths and what this means for SA as a tech hub.
• Vodacom gets a license to sell insurance.
• Why Nic’s switch to Android was a disaster.
• Why 2012 is going to be a great entertainment year for geeks.

Our technology picks of the week:

• Nic Callegari: Pulse.
• Sam Beckbessinger: Codeacademy’s Code Year, Gym-pact and Mindbloom.

In this, the third of our annual ZA Tech Show holiday specials, we take a look at the year ahead and make some predictions for 2012. Your holiday crew of Andy Hadfield, Ben Kelly, Brett Haggard and Simon Dingle are onboard for a run-through of some of what’s to come…

As 2011 draws to a close our ZA Tech Show holiday crew of Andy Hadfield, Ben Kelly, Brett Haggard and Simon Dingle run through TechCentral’s ‘International newsmakers of the year’ and pick our top technology products and news stories from the annum.

Wondering what to get your geek(s) this festive season? Our special ZA Tech Show holiday crew of Andy Hadfield, Ben Kelly, Brett Haggard and Simon Dingle have some suggestions for you. In this, the first of our 2011 holiday specials, we discuss branded notebooks, gaming gifts, gadgets and other great must-haves for this year.