Your panel of tech pundits this week includes Brett Haggard, Candice Jones and Duncan McLeod who join Simon Dingle to discuss:

Our technology picks and pick-ons of the week:

• Simon Dingle – Picks: Samsung Galaxy S and Tungle.me.
• Duncan McLeod – Picks: HTC Desire and Zimbra.
• Candice Jones – Picks: Nintendo 3DS.
• Brett Haggard – Picks: VMWare Fusion 3.1 and GOG.com.

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Our panel this week consists of Brett Haggard, Duncan McLeod, Jon Tullett and Simon Dingle. We discuss:

• The new iPhone prototype. They’re everywhere now. We’re so over it.
• Duncan’s fantastic TechCentral Debate Series telecoms panel.
• Fibre rollout in SA.
• Vodacom’s Linkbook netbook.
• Ubuntu Linux 10.04.
• Steam for Mac (and maybe Linux too).
• Recovery in the tech sector.
• The Facebook privacy debacle.

Our picks and pick-ons of the week:

• Simon Dingle – Picks: Steam for Mac.
• Brett Haggard – Picks: Pocket Legends.
• Duncan McLeod – Picks: Vintage Kings Quest and Just Cause 2.
• Jon Tullett – Picks: The Humble Indie Bundle.

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Duncan McLeod and Simon Dingle brave traffic, flu and chat-room critics to discuss:

• Progress at Cell C.
• Telkom Mobile’s prospects.
• DStv On Demand.
• The realities of uncapped ADSL access in SA.
• ODM’s TopTV launch and the overwhelming demand for the service.
• TechCentral’s Debate Series debut.
• All the announcements from BlackBerry WES 2010.
• New Android devices.
• Rumours of a Nokia tablet.
• Xbox Live.
• Half-Life 2: Episode 3.

Our picks and pick-ons of the week:

• Duncan McLeod: Picks – Parallels Desktop 5.
• Simon Dingle: Picks - Xbox 360 Wireless N Networking Adapter.

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We’re in our new studio space this week, echoes, unpainted walls and all. Brett Haggard, Don Packett, Duncan McLeod and Simon Dingle are your panel this week. We discuss:

• The future of Cell C.
• Improving PC sales and analysts’ expectations for tablet computers.
• Microsoft Mix and the prospects for Windows Phone.
• Sony’s 8001050F error on the PS3.
• Apple vs. HTC in patent dispute.
• In-flight WiFi coming to Mango.
• HP’s Pavilion DM1 netbook.
• Dropped calls on Vodacom and the smartphones that apparently cause them.
• iBurst’s new iDSL service with unlimited bandwidth for gaming.
• Telkom bumping up speed on ADSL lines.

Our picks and pick-ons of the week:

• Duncan McLeod – Picks: Skype for Symbian.
• Brett Haggard – Picks: The Macheist nanoBundle 2.
• Don Packett – Picks: Mi-World and the Mi-Bar for geeks.

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Steven Ambrose from WWW Strategy makes his first appearance on the ZA Tech Show this week, joining Brett Haggard, Duncan McLeod and Simon Dingle to discuss:

• Internet access stats for South Africa.
• The Apple iPad launch.
• The online services drought in South Africa.
• Progress in Android and Chrome OS.
• Microsoft falling behind in mobile.
• Cell C’s “4G” network rollout.
• Cellular networks’ data congestion problems.

Our picks and pick-ons of the week:

• Brett Haggard – Picks: the iPad (we didn’t see that one coming) and Interarchy FTP client.
• Duncan McLeod – Picks: the Zap ‘em Dead electrified fly-swatter and picks-on: Jason Calacanis for his pre-iPad launch tweets.
• Steven Ambrose – Picks: The BlackBerry Bold 9700.
• Simon Dingle – Picks: The HTC Tattoo and SkypeIn with South African numbers.

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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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This week Simon Dingle, Brett Haggard, Duncan McLeod and Toby Shapshak are joined by developer and winner of Microsoft’s Most Valuable award for Xbox 360 in 2008 and 2009, Craig Nicholson. We discuss:

• The ongoing and intensifying interconnect debacle.
• Livescribe’s Pulse Smartpen.
• All things Windows 7.
• New products from Apple.
• Snow Leopard Server versus Windows Home Server.

Our picks and pick-ons of the week:

• Simon Dingle: Picks – Machinarium and the Livescribe Pulse Smartpen.
• Craig Nicholson: Picks – Football Genius and the new Xbox dashboard update.
• Duncan McLeod: Picks – Samsung Jet.
• Toby Shapshak: Picks – Stuff’s ‘Gadget of the Year’ awards and the HTC Hero.
• Brett Haggard: Picks – Tomtom for iPhone, now with SA maps.

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• The demise of a possible merger between cellular giants MTN and Bharti Airtel.
• Interconnect rates.
• Console prices and the PS3 Slim.
• Ebook readers.
• The new iPod Nano with video camera.
• Google Wave.
• Twitter use.

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• Mobile World Congress 2009 in Barcelona.
• New Nokia mobile phones we’ll see this year, including the E55, N85 and E75.
• The universal mobile phone charger.
• The Palm Pre.
• Mobile app stores.
• The iPhone disruption.
• Windows Mobile 6.5
• Nokia partners with Qualcomm.
• LTE, WiMAX and the state-of-play for 4G.
• Motorola’s LTE van.
• Solar and wind-powered cellular networks and handsets.
• The remake of American McGee’s Alice.
• GTA IV gets its first expansion.
• Facebook’s new terms of service and the outcry they started.
• Cell C to slash prices.
• Vodafone one step closer to taking over control of Vodacom.

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In our final show of the year we discuss:

• Apple’s decision to cancel the Jobs keynote at Macworld and how vital Steve Jobs is to Apple’s success (it’s really a question, not a statement of fact).
• Novell BrainShare being cancelled.
• Conferences – are their days numbered?
• Toshiba unveils the first 512GB SSD hard drive.
• Simon has played with the BlackBerry Storm and reports back.
• Is it possible we’re wrong about Windows Mobile 6?
• More speculation on possible acquisitions. Will Sun go?
• The pain of Yahoo! and the awesomeness of IBM.
• Telkom’s cellular transformation.
• What makes some users’ experience on a cellular network differ from others.
• The possibility of Roy Padayachi becoming South Africa’s next minister of communications.

And more…

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