There’s a lot of new stuff to talk about this week. New games, operating systems and networks. It’s all fresh and ready for your listening pleasure. Ben Kelly, Brett Haggard and Simon Dingle discuss;

• Windows 8 and the Metro interface.
• Cloud storage services.
• Ecosystem-agnostic technology.
• Data roaming.
• First tests of MTN’s LTE network.
• Fixed-line progress (or the lack thereof).

Our technology picks of the week:

• Brett Haggard: Fling Joystick for iPad.
• Ben Kelly: Jetpack Joyride.
• Simon Dingle: Prey.

Ben Kelly, Brett Haggard, Sam Beckbessinger and Simon Dingle warm themselves with some fiery tech talk on a freezing Monday night. We talk;

• The great Vodabomb of 2011.
• The RICA cut-off in South Africa and its fallout.
• The launch of Google+.
• Zynga preparing its IPO.
• Myspace sold to Justin Timberlake.
• Huawei’s S7 7″ Android tablet.
• Lenovo’s new marketing push.
• Battery technology.
• Lytro photography

Our technology picks and pick-ons this week:

• Ben Kelly: Pinterest.
• Sam Beckbessinger: Compfight and Twitter Whom to follow.
• Brett Haggard: Free App a Day.
• Simon Dingle: The Lands of Hope.

• The Tech4Africa conference.
• Tech in Africa and the local start-up space.
• How Telkom went wrong.
• The Mesh Potato project.
• Dustin tells us about his Twitter usage and Erin about working at Apple.
• And much more…

Our technology picks and pick-ons of the week:

• Basheera Khan – Picks: Keynote Wireframe Toolkit.
• Duncan McLeod – Picks: Android 2.2 ‘Froyo’.
• Dustin Diaz – Picks-on: Gmail for messing up the iPhone mobile client.
• Erin Caton – Picks: African Avenue and picks-on: SmugMug for iPad.
• Ivo Vegter – Picks: Seesmic.
• Simon Dingle – Picks-on: Disco.
• Toby Shapshak – Picks: Tech4Africa.

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Ben Kelly, Brett Haggard and Jon Tullett are our panelists this week, joining Simon Dingle to discuss;

Our technology picks and pick-ons of the week:

• Brett Haggard – Picks: Synergy.
• Ben Kelly – Picks: An iPhone 3G speed improvement tip.
• Jon Tullett – Picks: Starcraft II and  the BBC’s Global Experience Language.
• Candice Jones (from the chat room) – Picks: Paper.li.

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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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