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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Jon Tullett is your host this week with Ben Kelly, Brett Haggard and later Duncan McLeod on the panel. We discuss:

• Seacom’s outage and its impact on connectivity in SA.
• HP’s acquisition of Palm.
• The launch of TopTv and DStv Lite.
• Delays in Digital Terrestrial Television (DTT) migration.
• The launch of Ubuntu Linux 10.04 LTS.
• Online shopping.
• The Apple vs. Adobe debacle.

Our picks and pick-ons of the week:

• Duncan McLeod: Picks – Garmin FM Traffic, coming soon to SA.
• Ben Kelly: Picks – iFixit.
• Brett Haggard: Picks – Air Video for iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad.
• Jon Tullett: Picks – MakroShop.

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Our panel this week consists of Aki Anastasiou, Brett Haggard, Duncan McLeod and Simon Dingle. We recorded at Traffic’s studios in Randburg and discussed:

• Hands-on experiences with the iPad and an in-depth discussion surrounding Apple’s newest product.
• Ebook readers and where Amazon fits in.
• HP’s Slate tablet.
• iPhone 4.0 and multitasking through shared APIs.
• Flash versus HTML5.
• Getting tech on cellular contracts.
• Visual voicemail on Vodacom.
• The new Twitter for BlackBerry app.
• Real-time traffic data coming to SA.

Our picks and pick-ons of the week:

• Aki Anastasiou: Harbor Master for iPad and Mecer Xpression notebooks.
• Duncan McLeod: Nokia Ovi Maps.
• Brett Haggard: Nintendo DSi XL and Nokia X6.
• Simon Dingle: The soon-to-be-famous silent ringtone.

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CEO of Incredible Connection, Dave Miller joins us on the show this week, with Don Packett, Simon Dingle and, later, Duncan McLeod to discuss:

• IT spend in the downturn.
• Dave teaches us some new names for his company (we’d only heard Incredible Corruption).
• 3D Gaming.
• Netbooks and their market domination.
• Steam coming to Mac.
• Digital software distribution.
• The HP Slate and the growing tablet market.
• Hybrid sport cars, and connecting gadgets to cars in general.
• DStv canceling their porn plans.
• BlackBerry, and co-CEO Jim Basillie’s visit to South Africa.
• MTN’s annual results.
• Paypal coming to SA.

Our picks and pick-ons of the week:

• Duncan McLeod: Picks – DStv’s iPhone apps.
• Don Packett – Picks – Chatroulette.
• Simon Dingle – Picks: CamTwist.

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We’re in our new studio space this week, echoes, unpainted walls and all. Brett Haggard, Don Packett, Duncan McLeod and Simon Dingle are your panel this week. We discuss:

• The future of Cell C.
• Improving PC sales and analysts’ expectations for tablet computers.
• Microsoft Mix and the prospects for Windows Phone.
• Sony’s 8001050F error on the PS3.
• Apple vs. HTC in patent dispute.
• In-flight WiFi coming to Mango.
• HP’s Pavilion DM1 netbook.
• Dropped calls on Vodacom and the smartphones that apparently cause them.
• iBurst’s new iDSL service with unlimited bandwidth for gaming.
• Telkom bumping up speed on ADSL lines.

Our picks and pick-ons of the week:

• Duncan McLeod – Picks: Skype for Symbian.
• Brett Haggard – Picks: The Macheist nanoBundle 2.
• Don Packett – Picks: Mi-World and the Mi-Bar for geeks.

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This week security expert Dominic White makes his debut on the show,  joining Brett Haggard, Duncan McLeod and Simon Dingle. We discuss:

• The ongoing Google-China debacle.
• The Aurora exploit.
• Nokia providing Ovi Maps gratis.
• Telkom’s SAT3 problems last week.
• App store mania.
• In-flight internet access coming to SA.

Our picks and pick-ons of the week:

• Duncan McLeod – Picks: Ipredator from The Pirate Bay.
• Dominic White – Picks: Google Sharing.
• Brett Haggard – Picks: Komodo Edit.
• Simon Dingle – Picks: The LTE Connected Car.

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In our first episode of the year Ben Kelly, Brett Haggard, Duncan McLeod and Simon Dingle form the panel, with Toby Shapshak dialing in from CES later on in the show. We discuss:

• Parrot’s iPhone-controlled helicopter.
• HP’s new tablet and why we need tablets at all.
• HD Skype, 3-D and other progress in television.
• Vodacom’s legal battle in the DRC.
• Google’s Nexus One. Is Android its own worst enemy?
• Toby overviews CES for us and digs into Lenovo’s new line-up.

Our picks and pick-ons of the week:

• Ben Kelly – Picks: Custom GelaSkins.
• Brett Haggard – Picks: The Speedtest.net iPhone app.
• Simon Dingle – Picks: Quake Live and World of Goo.
• Toby Shapshak – Picks: Lenovo’s new range of portables.

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Host of the ZA Show, Glen Verran makes his debut on the ZA Tech Show this week, joining Simon Dingle, Duncan McLeod and Brett Haggard. We discuss:

• Podcasting in South Africa.
• FarmVille and other online games.
• Twitter’s waning popularity.
• The Nokia N900.
• Mustek reporting HP to the Competition Commission.
• Time Inc’s tablet-friendly magazine concept.
• Of Windows, Mac and Linux.
• 3d television and Sony shooting the 2010 World Cup in 3d.
• Eskom and the future of power production.
• DSTV launching Super Sport HD.

Our picks and pick-ons of the week:

• Glen Verran: Picks – The HDTV and Home Theatre Podcast and The Mede8er.
• Duncan McLeod: Pick - Garmin Nuvi 1410.
• Brett Haggard – Pick – Threadsy (yes, again).
• Simon Dingle: Maemo Linux and New Super Mario Bros. for Wii.

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Brett Haggard, Candice Jones, Duncan McLeod, Jon Tullett and Simon Dingle constitute your panel this week. They discuss:

• The leaked Google Chrome OS.
• Apple’s legal victory over Psystar.
• The broadband colloquium held by the Department of Communications last week.
• Telkom’s latest results.
• Microsoft Office 2010.
• Touch interfaces and Lenovo’s T400s.

Our picks and pick-ons of the week:

• Brett Haggard: Pick – Apple’s Magic Mouse, ATI Radeon 5770, FoneSync.
• Candice Jones: Pick – Machinarium (yes, this is the third time it’s been picked).
• Duncan McLeod: Pick – Anxiety.
• Simon Dingle: Pick - Foursquare, now with support for Johannesburg.

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The ZA Tech Show covers a remarkable variety of topics this week as Brett Haggard, Toby Shapshak, Jon Tullett, Duncan McLeod, Simon Dingle and Candice Jones discuss:

• Winston the Pigeon.
• Apple’s September announcements.
• The Beatles: Rock Band.
• Blackberry 8520.
• New Intel chip announcements.
• Interconnect rates.

Our picks and pick-ons this week:

• Candice Jones: Pick – Mini java games.
• Brett Haggard: Pick – Samsung DualView TL220.
• Simon Dingle: Pick – The Levelator.
• Jon Tullet: Pick-on – Winston the pigeon.

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