Brett Haggard, Steven Ambrose and Andy Hadfield can seemingly only talk about one thing when it comes to this week’s show. They give their views on:

• Apple Mac OS 10.9 Mavericks;
• The updated Mac Pro;
• The updated Macbook Air;
• Early impressions of iOS 7;
• The launch of iTunes Radio; and
• And update on the Xbox One/PS4 battle.

Our technology picks of the week are:

• Steven Ambrose picks Hootsuite and Vine for Android;
• Andy Hadfield picks Ford Sync’s Global Developer Programme and The Launch Ticker
• Brett Haggard picks TNEF’s Enough
• ‘Macboer’ from the chatroom picks http://chickenonaraft.com

This week’s show sees Brett Haggard and Adam Oxford joined by Dave Greenway who was luck enough to visit Computex in Taipei and scope out all of the hottest happenings from the show floor. Topics in the episode include:

• Dave’s report back from Computex;
• The South African Wii U sales bombshell;
• An update on the BRCK Kickstarter;
• A new project that lets you 3D Print from your phone;
• Quentin Harley’s ‘reprap’ design (called Morgan);
• Phishing your own staff;
• The release of Vine for Android; and
• The fact that Google could be used to influence election results.

Our technology picks of the week are:

• Adam Oxford picks on insurance companies who don’t have online forms, and picks New ‘Masonry’ WordPress themes; and
• Brett Haggard shamelessly picks Hypertext’s new web project htxt.africa.

Brett Haggard, Christo van Gemert and Adam Oxford congregate this week for a fun filled discussion on:

• The pre-launch of Xbox One;
• Shipment numbers of the Galaxy S4 and HTX Ones;
• The new maps.google.com
• Google not paying its taxes;
• The Kindle Fire coming to South Africa;
• Twitter’s two factor security and
• Opera ‘Chromium’.

Our technology picks of the week are:

• Adam Oxford picks SAP for throwing 2m Euros into SAP training for kids and picks-on iCloud’s black-listing of Thunderbird;
• Christo van Gemert picks Grid 2 for Xbox 360; and
• Brett Haggard picks smartappsforkids.com.

It’s all out geekery this week, as Brett Haggard and Ben Kelly ‘Skype’ Aki Anastasiou to discuss:

• Google’s IO Conference in San Francisco;
• The Tumblr acquisition;
• The FlickR revamp;
• The New Xbox;
• Neotel not being up for for sale… yet, says Tata;
• The new Jolla smartphone running Sailfish;
• And Dell getting serious about project Ophelia.

Our technology picks of the week are:

• Benedict Kelly picks NimbleQuest for iOS.
• Brett Haggard picks Wahoo Blue SC speed and cadence sensor.

This week regulars Brett Haggard and Steven Ambrose are joined by Tbreak.com’s Abbas Jaffar Ali in Orlando, Florida. The team discusses:

• The goings on at Blackberry’s Live conference, including:
  • The launch of the Blackberry Q5;
  • The update to BES 10.1;
  • BBM’s upcoming availability on Android and iOS;
  • The launch of BBM Channels;
  • And the update of Blackberry’s Android runtime environment due in June.
• Nokia’s launch of the Lumia 925 and 928; and
• Some predictions from Google IO conference, including the launch of a Spotify competitor and a unified messenger solution.

Picks of the week:

• Abbas Jaffar Ali picks the Dubai Police force’s new fleet of cars (including Lamborghinis and more) and Wally for iOS.
• Steven Ambrose picks Blackberry’s Travel App.
• Brett Haggard picks http://www.hereistoday.com

Dave Greenway and Steven Ambrose join Brett Haggard on this week’s show for a deep dive into:

• The Microsoft Windows 8.1 rumours;
• The fact that Windows 8 surpasses 100m licenses;
• Office 365 is now a $1bn business for MS;
• Adobe goes all-cloud;
• Intel’s Announcement of Silvermont;
• New MiFi device kickstarter from Ushahidi;
• Plants vs Zombies 2 is coming in July;
• EA has secured rights for all future ‘core’ Star Wars games; and
• Terrafugia’s plug-in flying hybrid.

Our technology picks of the week are:

• Steven Ambrose picks www.pingpong.co.za;
• Dave Greenway picks the HTC One; and
• Brett Haggard picks Lenovo Support Website.

Brett Haggard is joined in the studio by Adam Oxford and over Skype by Dave Greenway for a disucssion all about:

• Google Now hits iOS, coming soon to Desktops;
• New look iOS coming at WWDC;
• Twitter hacks of AP, The Guardian, BBC and Twitter says use one computer;
• Kenyan president promises free laptops;
• Google Glass is not as embargoed as we thought;
• The Web is 20 years old;
• The preview of Skype for Outlook.com;
• Our impressions of the Galaxy S4; and
• HTC in trouble with the One.

Our technology picks of the week:

• Dave Greenway picks the new tumblr app for Android and http://20wordreviews.tumblr.com;
• Adam Oxford picks Ubuntu 13.04 and Thoughtworks’ Roy Singham;
• Brett Haggard picks jerrycards.com

Brett Haggard, Steven Ambrose, Andy Hadfield and a bottle of DMZ Chardonnay get together this week to discuss, at length:

• A report back from Microsoft’sTech-Ed;
• Why is cool so important in tech today?
• Is the new cutting edge in hardware or software?
• Galaxy S4 coming soon and the question is the battery life;
• How impressive the Kobo store is;
• The content ecosystem and landscape;
• The appetite for 7-inch Android tablets; and
• The possibility of a new Blackberry tablet;

Our technology picks of the week are:

• Steven Ambrose picks ‘Fake Follower Check’ on socialbakers.com and the Samsung Galaxy Note 8.0;
• Andy Hadfield picks on ‘The Internet’, picks @Earth_pics on Twitter and TuneUp in Mac App Store; and
• Brett Haggard picks the new Macheist nano bundle.

Simon Dinlge fills in for Brett Haggard this week and is joined by Jan Vermeulen and Saul Kropman to discuss:

• BitCoin.
• SA banking apps from Investec, Absa and FNB.
• Google Glass updates.
• News services, pay television and live streaming.
• Facebook Home.
• Sentech’s frequency return.

Our technology picks of the week:

• Simon Dingle picks Al Jazeera English app and Fantastical.
• Saul: Xero.
• Jan Vermeulen: the slew of new Android devices hitting the market.

Brett Haggard, Sam Beckbessinger and Guy Taylor get together to discuss everything but the news this week. Topics include:

• Lucasarts games are gone, but the code is out there;
• Up and coming social networks;
• Guy’s involvement in CloudAfrica;
• Is Facebook’s SA user base declining?
• Deutsche Telecom blames WhatsApp for lost revenue;
• HTC and Facebook;
• Bitcoins are back;
• The AU Committee social media impersonation debacle;
• ZA Tech Show and Seed.tv.

Our technology picks of the week are:

• Sam Beckbessinger: The Nokia 2600 (or the ‘backup’ Nokia ) and the New Brandseye.
• Guy Taylor: Bioshock Infinite and Squarespace.
• Brett: MapMyRide and LivingVitality from Discovery.