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 .

It’s a full house in the ZA Tech Show studio this week with Aki Anastasiou, Andy Hadfield, Samantha Beckbessinger and Simon Dingle gathering around the table to discuss:

• Vodacom’s 20GB price announcement.
• The broadband bungle.
• The coming of Windows Phone.
• Banks and technology.
• Kindle hits retail in SA.
• Microsoft Kinect hacks.
• Is Siri really a threat to Google?

Our technology picks of the week:

• Samantha Beckbessinger: Isitold.com.
• Andy Hadfield: What does the internet think?
• Aki Anastasiou: Instapaper.
• Simon Dingle: Samsung Note.

Is there still hope for BlackBerry? Can Lenovo make a dent in the tablet market? We don’t know the answers to these questions, but are willing to speculate wildly. This week Andy Hadfield, Simon Dingle and Steven Ambrose discuss;

• The Lenovo K1 tablet.
• Samsung pulling the Tab 7.7 from its stand at IFA.
• The Amazon tablet.
• App stores and operators.
• iOS 5.
• The launch of Telkom Business Mobile.
• Evernote acquiring Skitch.
• Google shutting down old projects.
• And more…

Our technology picks this week:

• Steven Ambrose: The new BlackBerry Torch 9860 and Mecer’s 4-port USB hub with Ethernet.
• Andy Hadfield: Rugby World 2011 app for iPhone, Android and BlackBerry.
• Simon Dingle: Motorola Atrix.

Your crew this week consists of Ben Kelly, Brett Haggard and Simon Dingle. With lots of shiny new things to play with, we discuss;

• The launch of Apple OS X Lion.
• DStv BoxOffice bringing on-demand movies to SA pay-tv subscribers.
• The FNB smartphone app.
• Fake Apple stores in China.
• Cell C and Vodacom’s latest counter-offers in the mobile broadband war.
• RIM (BlackBerry) cutting jobs and switching to QNX.
• And much more…

Our technology picks this week:

• Ben Kelly: Does an obituary for the white MacBook.
• Brett Haggard: Picks Cinch.
• Simon Dingle: Picks Viber for Android.

Trying hard to focus on the serious issues facing technology this week instead of talking about foreign love interestes and wine, Andy Hadfield, Stafford Masie and Simon Dingle discuss;

• LulzSec and its fallout.
• 8ta’s new mobile broadband bundles.
• Mobile content strategies.
• The new Ster-Kinekor website’s #fail.
• Windows Phone.
• Nokia’s N9.

Our technology picks and pick-ons this week:

• Stafford Masie – Picks: Dropbox for its awesomeness.
• Andy Hadfield – Picks: Getting Wicked for its thoughtfulness.
• Simon Dingle – Picks: Nokia’s N9 for its significance.

Andy Hadfield, Sam Beckbessinger and Simon Dingle settle down to some organic wine and discuss;

• The white iPhone rush.
• BlackBerry’s make or break.
• The Webby Awards.
• Sony’s ongoing hack saga.
• SA’s new pay-tv service VOD:TV.

Our technology picks and pick-ons this week:

• Andy Hadfield – Picks: Storify and Settlers of Catan.
• Sam Beckbessinger – Picks: Game of Thrones and the fantasy gamers of SA.
• Simon Dingle – Picks-on: Apple.

With Simon away this week, Brett Haggard is at the helm of the ZA Tech Show. He is joined by Samantha Perry and Ben Kelly to discuss:

• Vodacom “going red” and competitors’ reactions.
• 3G versus DSL.
• The possibility of fibre to the home in SA.
• Local loop unbundling.
• The Sony PS3 hacker.
• The longevity of 3D.

Our technology picks and pick-ons this week:

• Samantha Perry – Picks: Skype.
• Ben Kelly – Picks: Ion TTUSB Turntable.
• Brett Haggard – Picks: Ubuntu 10.10 on Lenovo hardware.

Your crew this week consists of Andy Hadfield, Steven Ambrose and Simon Dingle. We discuss;

• The Nokia E7 and the state of Symbian.
• Vodacom going red.
• Cell C network experiences.
• Chip manufacturing issues in Japan.
• Connecting the iPad with 8ta.
• Nintendo’s 3DS.
• Android’s rocketing market share.

Our technology picks and pick-ons this week:

• Stephen Ambrose – Picks: SwiftKey.
• Andy Hadfield – Picks: No Agenda’s business model and Evernote.
• Simon Dingle – Picks: Lego Star Wars III.

With Simon in Dubai, Brett Haggard takes the reigns this week. He is joined by Ben Kelly, Candice Jones and Steven Ambrose to discuss:

• Pinky Moholi’s appointment as Telkom CEO.
• Consumer fibre connections coming from i3 Africa.
• The new Microsoft.
• Reinventing consumer technology.
• Car tech.
• Tablet competitors and their chances against the iPad.
• BlackBerry OS 6.
• The launch of Internet Explorer 9.

Our technology picks and picks-ons this week:

• Ben Kelly – Picks: DStv Mobile.
• Candice Jones – Picks: Person Finder and jQuery.
• Steven Ambrose – Picks: Internet Explorer 9 and picks-on DStv.
• Brett Haggard – Picks: Beats ‘Studio’ by Dr. Dre.

A very dry ZA Tech Show studio was ably manned by Brett Haggard this week, who was joined by Andy Hadfield and Ben Kelly for a discussion of the week’s technology news, which included;

• Nokia’s turn to Microsoft.
• The rise of Google in mobile.
• The significance of gaming in mobile.
• New tablet announcements from the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.
• Red Bull Mobile and the reinvention of Cell C.

Our technology picks and pick-ons this week:

• Brett Haggard – picks: Open Transport Tycoon.
• Andy Hadfield – picks: MindNode.
• Ben Kelly – picks: Flight Control HD.