It’s every geek for themself this week as Ben Kelly, Nic Callegari, Sam Beckbessinger and Simon Dingle discuss;

• Firefox 4 and browsers in general
• Camping in Google’s backyard
• Facebook Places launches in SA
• Processor marketing
• Crysis 2
• Science Fiction gets the better of us again
• SA is now 6th in the world for cyber-crime
• Nintendo 3DS
• Online marketing
• Telkom

Our technology picks and pick-ons this week:

• Ben Kelly – Picks: Podio.
• Sam Beckbessinger – Picks: Amazon Appstore for Android.
• Nic Callegari – Picks: Tenda networking products.
• Simon Dingle – Picks:

With 2010 on life support Ben Kelly and Brett Haggard hook up with Simon Dingle to talk tech. They;

• Anticipate the launch of Cell C’s new network in Gauteng.
• Discuss  ADSL’s local inadequacies.
• Check out Microsoft’s launch of Kinect and Xbox Live in SA.
• Take guesses at the coming iTunes announcement from Apple.
• Consider the Macbook Air as a workhorse.
• Despair at Toshiba’s Folio tablet fail.
• Wonder about Facebook’s messaging overhaul.

Out technology picks and pick-ons this week:

Ben Kelly, Brett Haggard and Simon Dingle are your panelists this week as we discuss:

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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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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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Ivo Vegter makes his debut appearance on the ZA Tech Show this week, by popular demand. He joins Simon Dingle, Duncan McLeod, Brett Haggard, Toby Shapshak and Ben Kelly for a chat about:

• Walled gardens, open systems and whether or not we should care.
• “Evil” technology companies and market perceptions.
• Google and Microsoft’s game of tit-for-tat.
• Google Chrome OS.
• New HD channels coming to DSTV.
• The move to digital terrestrial television (DTT) and MNET’s advantage.

And much more…

Our picks and pick-ons of the week:

• Toby Shapshak – Pick: VLC, which has now reached version 1.0.
• Brett Haggard – Picks: the Monkey Island revival and Linux Mint.
• Ivo Vegter – Pick-on: The R6 million 2010 Durban website.
• Ben Kelly – Pick: Travian (yes, yes. Jon has picked it before).
• Ducan McLeod – Pick: Grooveshark.
• Simon Dingle – Pick: Simple CSS (which he confused with another app. Wrong description in the show, but check it out anyway)

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Jon Tullett, Toby Shapshak, Brett Haggard and Simon Dingle are your panellists in this week’s episode. They try to speak as quickly as possible, and at the same time, as they discuss:

• Microsoft’s dodgy IE8 ads.
• The Core debacle.
• How technology vendors go to market in SA, and calculate prices.
• Mobile broadband options.
• The switch to DTT (Digital Terrestrial Television).
• The RICA act in SA and its impact on prepaid cellular.

Our choice technologies of the week:

• Toby Shapshak: Sony Ericsson W995.
• Jon Tullett: Ubuntu Linux 9.04.
• Brett Haggard: G-Connect.

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This week our intrepid group of podcasting buccaneers finds themselves under the command of Lt. Jon Tullett, once again. Will hysterics and swearing derail their mission? Find out in this exciting episode, wherein Jon ‘Federa’ Tullett, Brett ‘Shiny-guy’ Haggard, Ben ‘Ace’ Kelly, Duncan ‘Laugh-a-minute’ McLeod and Toby ‘Mister’ Shapshak discuss:

• The big gaming announcements from E3.
• Microsoft Bing.
• Google Squared.
• Time magazine’s Twitter cover.
• Predictions for WWDC.
• The Palm Pre.
• COSATU withdrawing its Vodacom boycott.

Our choice technologies for the week:

• Ben Kelly: Wesabe - Web 2.0 finance tool.
• Brett Haggard: The Developer Release of Google Chrome for Mac.
• Jon Tullett: Improvements to DNSSEC.

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Jon Tullett leads our group of intrepid geeks this week, as Simon was away. Jon joins Duncan McLeod, Ben Kelly and Brett Haggard to discuss:

• The post-Vodacom debacle fallout.
• Cellular network reliability.
• More iPhone app blocking.
• Swine flu: the online story.
• Google Chrome 2 and the browser scene.
• 3d cinema tech.
• Microsoft’s Magic Wand patent.
• The Apple tablet. There appears to be more to the rumour.

And much more…

Our choice technologies of the week:

• Brett Haggard: Sun VirtualBox – free virtualisation platform.
• Ben Kelly: Stellarium – free open source planetarium for your computer and Moviestar – the iPhone app.
• Duncan McLeod: The new Star Trek movie.
• Jon Tullett: Kensington wireless mouse with nano receiver.

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Toby Shapshak, editor of Stuff Magazine joins Jon Tullett, Brett Haggard, Duncan McLeod and Simon Dingle this week. We discuss:

• The HTC Magic from Vodacom and everything Android.
• Fixing Gmail’s IMAP on some mail clients.
• Mail and calendaring clients.
• Click here for Justin Hartman’s iCal fix.
• Personal cloud platforms. Who’s winning the race?
• Is the bandwidth on FNB Connect really unshaped?
• Hear our first reactions to the ICASA-COSATU-Vodacom debacle (we got the announcement while recording this episode).
• The cellular network reliability debate.
• Finality on the Idols mess.

This week’s choice technologies:

• Jon Tullett: Google’s new search options and Read It Later for Firefox.
• Brett Haggard: GMDesk and Issuu.
• Duncan McLeod: Blue Mail Central.
• Simon Dingle: Lenovo Thinkpad X301 and Blackberry Facebook 1.5.

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