Stafford Masie returns to the show this week, joining Ben Kelly, Brett Haggard, Duncan McLeod and Simon Dingle to discuss:

• WayTag, one of Stafford’s new projects.
• The role of content in telecoms.
• Predictions for Apple’s WWDC event.
• The realities surrounding cloud computing.
• Computational biology, quantum computing, the singularity and a general chat on scary computing futures.
• The evolution of storage.
• Discussions at the recent D Conference.
• Taking social media to corporate.
• Spectrum auctions in SA and Skyrove entering the fray.

Our picks and pick-ons of the week:

• Brett Haggard – Picks: DownStorm.
• Ben Kelly – Picks: Twitter for iPhone.
• Stafford Masie – Picks: Huddle.
• Duncan McLeod – Picks: Marca’s World Cup calendar.
• Simon Dingle – Picks and Picks-on: Multichoice’s new DStv HD PVR 2P decoder.

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Jon Tullett returns to the show as your host this week, joining Brett Haggard and Duncan McLeod to discuss:

• FNB launching PayPal in South Africa.
• Mobile payment systems like M-Pesa.
• The internet access price war and its move to mobile.
• Disintermediation of cellular network services.
• The 2010 Pwn2Own competition.
• The Nintendo DSi XL, now available in SA.
• 3D film and games.

Our picks and pick-ons of the week:

• Jon Tullett – Picks: His car, with USB port (a Kia Sportage).
• Brett Haggard – Picks: The TrickleStar multiplug.

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Jon Tullett returns to the ZA Tech Show this week, joining the panel with Brett Haggard, Duncan McLeod, Simon Dingle and, later, Toby Shapshak. We discuss:

• Google Buzz.
• Mashing together social networks.
• Open API’s versus closed platforms.
• The Eassy undersea cable landing in SA.
• Tumbling ADSL prices.
• The downfall of Sentech and spectrum allocation.
• A preview of Mobile World Congress 2010 in Barcelona.
• Skype Access and Windows Mobile 7.
• Mobile roaming.

Our picks and pick-ons of the week:

• Jon Tullett – Picks: Guitar Hero 5.
• Toby Shapshak – Picks-on: Sentech and picks: the Sony Ericsson X10.
• Brett Haggard – Picks: Mobile Data Alerter for BlackBerry.
• Simon Dingle – Picks: Aerial7 Tank headphones and CSSEdit.

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Jon Tullett is your host this week. He is joined by Duncan McLeod, Brett Haggard and Toby Shapshak who discuss:

• FNB’s Internet banking outage.
• Mobile banking and payment solutions.
• NASA’s LCROSS lunar impact project.
• Amazon Kindle goes international.
• Rubik’s 360, HTC Hero and other new toys.
• Apps and their stores.
• Google Wave.

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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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A tripartite gathering of geeks, consisting of Candice Jones from ITWeb, Ben Kelly from Ungeeked and Simon Dingle, make up our panel this week and discuss:

• iPhone 3.0.
• The Iranian elections on Twitter and mobile.
• What massive bandwidth pipes mean for media.
• Keeping people honest using online crowd dynamics.
• Windows 7, Bing, Project Natal and all things Microsoft.
• Is Sony the new Microsoft?
• The new competitive environment in online.

And more…

Our choice technologies of the week:

• Simon Dingle: Bing, and Tomtom for iPhone.
• Ben Kelly: DVDFab.
• Candice Jones: Sims 3 and Project Natal.

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Order returns to geek valley this week. Simon Dingle, Jon Tullett, Brett Haggard, Duncan McLeod and Toby Shapshak discuss…

• Bandwidth upgrade to the West African Cable System (WACS).
• Quantifying Africa’s international bandwidth projects.
• The local loop.
• Geographic number portability.
• The Facebook land-grab.
• Stickiness of social networks.
• Microsoft’s online advertising rally in the wake of Bing.
• Sony Ericsson’s comeback.
• Consumer animosity levelled at Core, again.
• Doom Resurrection.
• Smartphone wars.

And more…

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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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Jon Tullett, Candice Jones and Simon Dingle talk their way through:

• Telecommunications in South Africa post Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri.
• Will South Africa’s electric car, the Joule, ever hit the road?
• The digital music price war.
• DRM, piracy and bandwidth dynamics.
• Telkom’s mobile offering and restructuring.
• 97% of all email is spam, according to Microsoft.
• The ups and downs of BlackBerry.
• ARM-based netbooks.
• The netbook conundrum.
• Wii production costs go down, but prices hold fast.

And more…

Our choice technologies this week:

• Candice Jones: PinPoint from Leaf.
• Jon Tullett: Battle for Wesnoth and Maximum PC’s DIY multi-touch computer.
• Simon Dingle: Seesmic Desktop and Posterous.

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In this week’s episode Duncan McLeod, Jon Tullett, Simon Dingle, Brett Haggard and Candice Jones discuss:

• The release of Internet Explorer 8.
• Content Management Systems, browser compatibility and all things web development.
• Squarespace versus WordPress versus Drupal versus Joomla.
• Neotel’s new data-centres.
• Google servers in South Africa.
• Google Maps versus Windows Live Maps.
• We get hands on with Duncan’s Kindle 2.
• Halo Wars for Xbox 360.
• Voice-recognition in games.
• Classic adventure and quest games on the Nintendo DS.
• IBM’s probable acquisition of Sun Microsystems.
• Digital publishing.
• A new hack that tackles Intel processors at the cache level.
• iPhone 3.0

Our choice technologies of the week:

• Simon Dingle: BrowserShots and the new Griffin iTrip AutoPilot.
• Candice Jones: The new Shox Duo Mini Speakers.
• Brett Haggard: AppCleaner.
• Duncan McLeod: HowStuffWorks’ Stuff You Should Know podcast.
• Jon Tullett: Sierra classic games bundle (available from Incredible Connection).

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