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 .

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.