The ZA Tech Show turns 100 this week and we celebrated with our first ever live broadcast and some really expensive champagne. Ben Kelly, Brett Haggard, Duncan McLeod, Jon Tullett, Toby Shapshak and Simon Dingle discuss:

• Microsoft Windows Phone Series 7.
• Development on mobile platforms.
• Google and Android at the Mobile World Congress 2010.
• Intel and Nokia’s MeeGo announcement.
• The release of Starcraft 2 beta.
• Heavy Rain for the PS3.
• Samsung’s new Bada operating system and the new Wave.
• Powermat induction charging.
• Verizon’s partnership with Skype.

Our picks and pick-ons of the week:

• Toby Shapshak – Picks: NTT Docomo’s eye-controlled phone and Motorola’s Golden Eye.
• Jon Tullett: Picks and picks-on: GConnect from WirelessG.
• Ben Kelly – Picks: The PC Museum’s Vintage PC Twitter stream.
• Brett Haggard – Picks: The Mifi, soon with app store.
• Simon Dingle – Picks: Powermat with iPhone adapter and Rogue Amoeba software.

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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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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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Duncan McLeod, Brett Haggard and Simon Dingle are on the panel this week. Stay tuned for an interview with Lars Rasmussen from Google after the regular show. We discuss:

• New moves in mobile, including Windows Phone, Blackberry and Sony Ericsson’s X10 Android phone.
• The corporate factor for mobile platforms like Blackberry and Windows Phone.
• Triple-play telecoms.
• Google Dashboard and Wave.

Our picks and pick-ons of the week:

• Brett Haggard – Pick – Letter Opener.
• Simon Dingle – Pick – Threadsy.
• Duncan McLeod – Pick – The new 27″ iMac.

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Jon Tullett, Toby Shapshak, Brett Haggard and Simon Dingle are the crew this week. We discuss:

• Intel IDF.
• Microsoft’s Courier tablet device.
• Livescribe Pulse Smartpens.
• 3D video.
• Will Blu-ray be the last optical disk format of its kind?
• App stores and why most are failing.

Our picks and pick-ons of the week:

• Toby Shapshak: Pick – The Big Bang Theory.
• Jon Tullett: Pick – Prototype.
• Brett Haggard: Pick – iPhone Configuration Utility.

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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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Our group of technology enthusiasts this week includes Ben Kelly, Duncan McLeod, Brett Haggard and Simon Dingle, who congregate to discuss:

• Plagiarism and Wikipedia. Poor Chris Anderson.
• Seacom’s delayed launch.
• Pirate Bay suing for human rights infringements.
• Intel and Nokia’s agreement.
• Oracle, Sun, SAP, Larry Ellison and silliness.
• Windows 7 pricing.
• Telkom’s shocking results.

Our choice technologies of the week:

• Duncan McLeod: WeatherZA.
• Simon Dingle: Bento and Filemaker.
• Brett Haggard: Drobo.

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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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Simon Dingle, Brett Haggard, Duncan McLeod and Candice Jones from ITWeb feature in this week’s episode, discussing:

• MacOS X on netbooks.
• The Gears of War DRM lock-out.
• DRM fueling piracy.
• The BlackBerry Storm, launched recently in South Africa.
• Will Apple’s multi-touch patents stop the Pre?
• Laying fiber in the Johannesburg rain.
• Solar-powered traffic lights.
• Improvements in Telkom ADSL performance.
• Neotel versus Telkom.
• Mobile data prices and the possibility of price-cuts.
• The Faritec fall and Intel posting losses.
• Brett’s Nehalem platform and the processor market.
• Acer getting into the smartphone market.
• Nokia launching music service locally.
• When will the likes of Apple get real and recognise the SA market?
• The ‘Obama Worm’.
• Some of our panelists’ favourite new thingies.

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A small group of geeks gathers for episode 45 of the ZA Tech Show in which we discuss:

• MTN and Neotel’s shared network deal.
• Steve Jobs taking a break as CEO of Apple.
• Windows 7.
• The netbook market. Is there one?
• Updates on legal matters at SITA.
• VANS license conversions taking place.
• Computer sales figures for 2008.
• Neotel’s NeoFlex Data is now available.
• Losses and cut-backs, including Google and Sony Ericsson.
• Picasa now available for Mac.

And much more…

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