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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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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Stafford Masie returns to the show this week, joining Ben Kelly, Brett Haggard, Duncan McLeod and Simon Dingle to discuss:

• WayTag, one of Stafford’s new projects.
• The role of content in telecoms.
• Predictions for Apple’s WWDC event.
• The realities surrounding cloud computing.
• Computational biology, quantum computing, the singularity and a general chat on scary computing futures.
• The evolution of storage.
• Discussions at the recent D Conference.
• Taking social media to corporate.
• Spectrum auctions in SA and Skyrove entering the fray.

Our picks and pick-ons of the week:

• Brett Haggard – Picks: DownStorm.
• Ben Kelly – Picks: Twitter for iPhone.
• Stafford Masie – Picks: Huddle.
• Duncan McLeod – Picks: Marca’s World Cup calendar.
• Simon Dingle – Picks and Picks-on: Multichoice’s new DStv HD PVR 2P decoder.

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Ben Kelly, Brett Haggard, Jon Tullett and Simon Dingle are your panel this week. They discuss:

• The delayed international launch of the iPad.
• The local launch of the HTC Legend, Desire and Smart.
• The Microsoft Kin.
• App stores versus the web.
• Opera Mini hits the iPhone.
• ICASA’s announcements on interconnect and mobile TV.
• The outlook for Telkom Mobile.
• IPTV.
• The impact of faster DSL on SA’s ISPs.

Our picks and pick-ons of the week:

• Jon Tullett – Picks-on: MWEB uncapped ADSL.
• Ben Kelly – Picks: Words With Friends.
• Brett Haggard – Picks: Linkinus and Tweetdeck (for iPad, mostly).
• Simon Dingle – Picks: FlightRadar24 – watch planes fly around the ash.

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Our panel this week consists of Aki Anastasiou, Brett Haggard, Duncan McLeod and Simon Dingle. We recorded at Traffic’s studios in Randburg and discussed:

• Hands-on experiences with the iPad and an in-depth discussion surrounding Apple’s newest product.
• Ebook readers and where Amazon fits in.
• HP’s Slate tablet.
• iPhone 4.0 and multitasking through shared APIs.
• Flash versus HTML5.
• Getting tech on cellular contracts.
• Visual voicemail on Vodacom.
• The new Twitter for BlackBerry app.
• Real-time traffic data coming to SA.

Our picks and pick-ons of the week:

• Aki Anastasiou: Harbor Master for iPad and Mecer Xpression notebooks.
• Duncan McLeod: Nokia Ovi Maps.
• Brett Haggard: Nintendo DSi XL and Nokia X6.
• Simon Dingle: The soon-to-be-famous silent ringtone.

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This week security expert Dominic White makes his debut on the show,  joining Brett Haggard, Duncan McLeod and Simon Dingle. We discuss:

• The ongoing Google-China debacle.
• The Aurora exploit.
• Nokia providing Ovi Maps gratis.
• Telkom’s SAT3 problems last week.
• App store mania.
• In-flight internet access coming to SA.

Our picks and pick-ons of the week:

• Duncan McLeod – Picks: Ipredator from The Pirate Bay.
• Dominic White – Picks: Google Sharing.
• Brett Haggard – Picks: Komodo Edit.
• Simon Dingle – Picks: The LTE Connected Car.

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As Christmas 2009 approaches, our panelists are confined to their quarters and must use Skype to converse. Ben Kelly, Brett Haggard, Duncan McLeod, Jon Tullet, Simon Dingle and Toby Shapshak discuss:

• Cell C’s network expansion and upgrade.
• Telecoms.
• Intel scrapping Larrabee and possibly cosying up to Nvidia.
• Blackberry’s Storm 2.
• Integration between Twitter and search providers.

Our picks and pick-ons of the week:

• Duncan McLeod: Picks – Google Chrome for Mac.
• Brett Haggard: Picks – Dragon Dictation for iPhone.
• Jon Tullett: Pick-on – Dragon Dictation and picks – Samsung Star.
• Toby Shapshak: Picks – Blackberry Storm 2.
• Ben Kelly: Picks – Stanza.
• Simon Dingle: Picks – Tornado Outbreak for Xbox 360, PS3 and Wii.

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Ben Kelly, Duncan McLeod, Toby Shapshak and Simon Dingle are lazy this week. In a shorter-than-usual episode of the show they tackle:

• Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 and online gaming.
• Kindle apps, ebooks and tablet PCs.
• The interconnect agreement.
• The looming broadband colloquium.
• Apple’s massive operating profits in mobile.

Our picks and pick-ons of the week:

• Ben Kelly: Pick – BusyCal.
• Toby Shapshak: Pick – Nokia Booklet 3G.

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