Your panel this week consists of Ben Kelly, Duncan McLeod, Jon Tullett and Simon Dingle who discuss:

• The iPhone 4.0.1 update and antennaegate.
• Ebooks, audio books and the reading renaissance.
• Smart business on smartphones.
• Inductive charging with Powermat and others.
• Microsoft Kinect local pricing.
• Console gaming.
• Facebook reaching 500 million users.
• Undersea bandwidth cables.
• Spectrum allocation and ICASA’s delays.

Our technology picks (or pick-ons) of the week:

Brett Haggard and Simon Dingle talk their way through an interesting tech news week with acquisitions, much-ados about nothing and veins of awesomeness.

• The iPhone 4 storm in a teacup.
• The flood of business news this week including MTN, Naspers and Dimension Data.
• YouTube’s partner programme going live in South Africa.
• More hints at BlackBerry 6.
• Windows Phone 7 for developers.
• Converged devices.
• Movement in the ebook space.

Our technology picks and pick-ons of the week:

• Brett Haggard – Picks:  Guacamole.
• Simon Dingle – Picks: Angry Birds.

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With Seacom down and the World Cup approaching its final weekend Ben Kelly, Duncan McLeod and Simon Dingle gather to discuss:

• The Seacom outage.
• The local loop barrier for bandwidth.
• The possibility of the rumoured Google ‘Newspass’ pay wall for content.
• Wired magazine and its device strategy.
• Google Me.

Our technology picks and pick-ons of the week:

• Duncan McLeod – Picks: Layar, Google Googles and Sky Map.
• Ben Kelly – iRewardChart.
• Simon Dingle – Sony’s HT-CT150 sound system and Qualcomm’s new augmented reality SDK.

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Your panel of tech pundits this week includes Brett Haggard, Candice Jones and Duncan McLeod who join Simon Dingle to discuss:

Our technology picks and pick-ons of the week:

• Simon Dingle – Picks: Samsung Galaxy S and Tungle.me.
• Duncan McLeod – Picks: HTC Desire and Zimbra.
• Candice Jones – Picks: Nintendo 3DS.
• Brett Haggard – Picks: VMWare Fusion 3.1 and GOG.com.

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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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Brett Haggard and Jon Tullett join Simon Dingle to discuss:

• The Gautrain. Trains are technology, right?
• The new ACE undersea cable that will run up Africa’s West Coast.
• Telkom’s next moves.
• Contention ratios – why are they secret?
• Monopolies and comebacks.
• R&D at Microsoft.
• iPhone 4.
• The WirelessG iPod deal.
• Google StreetView in SA and custom homepages.

Our picks and pick-ons of the week:

• Jon Tullett – Picks: Manufactoria.
• Brett Haggard – Picks: iPad Camera Connection Kit and Freedom™ by Daniel Suarez.
• Simon Dingle – Picks and picks-on: Sony Vaio P Series and picks: Red Dead Redemption.

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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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This week Brett Haggard, Duncan McLeod and Simon Dingle drink some wine, eat some chinese and discuss:

• MTN’s “Uncapped” mobile “broadband”.
• MWEB’s “uncapped” wireless broadband.
• Google’s Chrome Web Store and Google TV.
• The cloud race featuring Canonical, Google, Microsoft and Apple.
• Microsoft Office 2010 Starter Edition.
• The explosion of TopTV and price reductions for DStv.
• 900Mhz mobile broadband.
• The Linkbook.

Our picks and pick-ons of the week:

• Simon Dingle – Picks: Iomega iConnect and Alan Wake.
• Brett Haggard – Picks: Ubuntu Netbook Remix and Daemon by Daniel Suarez.

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Duncan McLeod and Simon Dingle brave traffic, flu and chat-room critics to discuss:

• Progress at Cell C.
• Telkom Mobile’s prospects.
• DStv On Demand.
• The realities of uncapped ADSL access in SA.
• ODM’s TopTV launch and the overwhelming demand for the service.
• TechCentral’s Debate Series debut.
• All the announcements from BlackBerry WES 2010.
• New Android devices.
• Rumours of a Nokia tablet.
• Xbox Live.
• Half-Life 2: Episode 3.

Our picks and pick-ons of the week:

• Duncan McLeod: Picks – Parallels Desktop 5.
• Simon Dingle: Picks - Xbox 360 Wireless N Networking Adapter.

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We’re back at our studio under construction this week. Simon Dingle is your host, with TechCentral’s Duncan McLeod and Thunk! Perspective Lab’s Don Packett joining the panel for discussions on:

• Motorola’s Milestone launch and Android 2.1.
• Vodacom slashing its data rates.
• Fibre to the home in South Africa.
• Google’s local operations.
• Xbox Live rumours.
• Microsoft Office 2010.
• Die Antwoord and related online phenomena.
• The Gizmodo Apple iPhone prototype and how unreal we think it is.
• The launch of Top TV.
• Good results from top tech companies.
• Steam on Mac.
• Legends of Echo.
• iPad confiscation in Israel.
• Fixed-line interconnect and local number portability.
• Microsoft’s big BEE announcement.
• MTN in merger or acquisition talks again, this time with Orascom Telecoms.

Our picks and pick-ons of the week:

• Duncan Mcleod – Picks: Just Cause 2.
• Don Packett – Picks: Cobus Potgieter.
• Simon Dingle – Picks-on: Nokia Messaging.

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