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.

As the 2011 festive season gets underway, Andy Hadfield, Ben Kelly, Brett Haggard and Simon Dingle gather at ZA Tech Show HQ to discuss;

• Intel’s “ultrabooks” – supposedly big next year.
• HP open-sourcing WebOS.
• Mobile app development and HTML 5.
• Windows 8 and Windows Phone.
• DStv is launching a new satellite.
• Local loop unbundling.
• iCloud’s backup fail.
• Absa’s NFC trial.
• Mac App store reaches 100 million downloads while Android tops 10 billion.
• The Video Game Awards.

Our technology picks of the week:

• Andy Hadfield: Mi-Fone.
• Ben Kelly: Picks on Matthew Reilly.
• Brett Haggard: Picks the iNoxCase and Tweetdeck for sucking.
• Simon Dingle: Mario Kart 7.

Another newcomer joins the ZA Tech Show fold this week. Craig Wilson from TechCentral makes his debut in this episode, hosted by Brett Haggard. Jon Tullett make a comeback, unleashing the hate, and the panel is topped off with Nic Callegari. We check out:

• The Kindle Fire and Amazon shaking things up.
• Telkom’s uncapped ADSL.
• Streaming video and on demand services.
• Broadband in SA.
• Nokia’s rumoured new Meltemi operating system.
• Mobile competition mounting and prospects for ‘the other guys’.

Our technology picks this week:

• Jon Tullet: The Objet 3D printer (check out his neat dinosaur head on the video version).
• Craig Wilson: The Samsung GalaxyTab 10.1.
• Nic Callegari: The Battlefield 3 beta.
• Brett: Asus EEEPad Transformer.

• Twitter users halting a suicide in SA.
• Diablo 3 enabling real-world purchasing of virtual items.
• 3D phone screens and how much we don’t need them.
• The survivalist cult of PC gaming.
• Amazon halting Android app sales because it’s being sued by Apple.
• The “badgeification” of Google News.

Our technology picks of the week:

• Andy Hadfield: The 4-hour Workweek by Timothy Ferriss.
• Simon Dingle: Tripit and Flight Update Pro.
• Brett Haggard: Spotify.
• Steven Ambrose: Sony STR-DN1020 receiver.

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.

Our studio is a bit of a lab this week, but we don’t want to talk about it. Sam Beckbessenger, Toby Shapshak and Simon Dingle are your panel this week. We discuss;

• The launch of DStv BoxOffice.
• Spotify launching in the USA.
• Amazon tablet rumours.
• The new music industry.
• Toshiba and glasses-less 3D – in studio.
• FNB’s mobile announcement.
• Microsoft’s prospects.
• Apple Bluetooth in the Apple TV 2
• And more!

Our technology picks of the week:

• Sam Beckbessinger: Decode JZ and iPad accessibility.
• Toby Shapshak: Sony Vaio Z Series.
• Simon Dingle: Plex.

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 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.

Brett Haggard and Duncan McLeod make up your panel this week, with a full schedule of tech news. They discuss: