Ben Kelly and Dave Greenway join Brett Haggard in studio this week to discuss:

• Mango in-flight WiFi.
• FNB GeoPay.
• The long-awaited launch of Diablo 3.
• The WACS cable system going live.
• Cell C price cuts.
• Apple dropping the 4G tag on iPad in some regions.
• The first 802.11ac routers shipping.

Our technology picks of the week:

• Ben Kelly: IMO in the iTunes Appstore and TableTop by Geek & Sundry.
• Dave Greenway: Lost to Lumia on Youtube and Kenji Ishida’s Brave Robot no. 8.
• Brett Haggard: Nanocount .

This week your panel contains the technical prowess of Dave Greenway, analytical mastery of Steven Ambrose and Simon Dingle, who’s OK. We suppose. They discuss:

• New iPad pricing and launch in South Africa.
• HTC’s new Android powerhouses.
• A sneak at Samsung’s next Galaxy smartphone.
• Intel’s Ivy Bridge reveal.
• New Macs on the way.
• Adobe CS 6 and Adobe Cloud.
• The shift from pro at Apple.
• Windows 8 editions.
• Uncapped ADSL data price reductions.
• Diablo’s 15 May launch.

This week’s technology picks:

• Steven Ambrose: HTC One X and Kingston SSD Now
• David Greenway: Microsoft Exchange and SorryForMay15.com
• Simon Dingle: Asus Transformer Prime.

You might think that this here internet broadcast is about technology. And usually you’d be right. In this episode, however, Craig Wilson, Nic Callegari, Toby Shapshak and Simon Dingle do a terrible job of attempting to discuss:

• Apple’s “new iPad” sellout.
• Windows 8 looking good and redeeming old machines.
• Nokia tablet rumours.
• The anniversary of MIME.
• Rumours of a new Xbox to come in 2013.
• Marvel’s introduction of AR comics.
• The Canon EOS 5D MK III.
• Instagram for Android announced at SxSW.

Our technology picks of the week:

• Nic Callegari: Mass Effect 3.
• Toby Shapshak – Swell bamboo iPad covers.
• Craig Wilson: Cobook and Airfoil.
• Simon Dingle: Limbo.

We have more gadgets than panelists in the studio this week. Arthur Goldstuck, Ben Kelly, Nafisa Akabor and Simon Dingle unpack their backpacks and discuss:

• News from the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.
• Nokia’s 41MP camera phone and its significance.
• BlackBerry’s PlayBook 2.0.
• The launch and our initial impressions of the Sony PS Vita.
• The Standard Bank versus FNB Twitter spat.
• Arthur’s 7″ tablet roundup.

Our technology picks of the week:

• Nafisa Akabor: Tweetbot.
• Ben Kelly: Dropbox Camera Upload and Option Xyfi.
• Arthur Goldstuck: BlackBerry Curve and Roy Blumenthal.
• Simon Dingle: Stitcher.

A triumvirate of Craig Wilson, Stafford Masie and Simon Dingle form your panel in this week’s high-quality episode of everyone’s favourite podcast. Their words, not ours. Aside from a side-discussion involving steroid sport leagues we manage to discuss several technology topics, including:

• The quantified self movement.
• Broadband promises from politicians.
• PS Vita and the future of gaming.
• Content blocks and licensing.
• The future of the future.
• Hoverboards.
• Kickstarter.
• Social identity curators.
• Samsung Galaxy Nexus launch and pricing.
• Technology agnosticism.
• Apple’s OSX Mountain Lion.

Our technology picks this week:

• Craig Wilson: Fingle for iPad.
• Stafford Masie: Code Year.
• Simon Dingle: SwiftKey X, Pizza vs. Skeletons, Gmail app for iOS.

It’s a night of mayhem in the studio as Sam Beckbessinger, Brett Haggard, Andy Hadfield and Nic Calligari discuss:

• MTN’s weird new data bundles.
• New Twitter policies for Sky News and BBC journalists.
• Declining standards of blogging & online journalism.
• iPad 3 speculation.
• Amazon opening physical stores.

Our technology picks & pick-ons of the week:

• Sam: writeordie and Wunderkit.
• Andy: Alice: The Madness Returns, Best of 2011 Longform and (a pick-on) YouTube’s terms of service.
• Nic:  Pivotal Tracker iPad app and Apple accessories (a pick-on).
• Brett: The 7th Guest for iPad.

It’s a full house in the ZA Tech Show studio this week with Aki Anastasiou, Andy Hadfield, Samantha Beckbessinger and Simon Dingle gathering around the table to discuss:

• Vodacom’s 20GB price announcement.
• The broadband bungle.
• The coming of Windows Phone.
• Banks and technology.
• Kindle hits retail in SA.
• Microsoft Kinect hacks.
• Is Siri really a threat to Google?

Our technology picks of the week:

• Samantha Beckbessinger: Isitold.com.
• Andy Hadfield: What does the internet think?
• Aki Anastasiou: Instapaper.
• Simon Dingle: Samsung Note.

Fresh in from Nokia World, Brett Haggard and Simon Dingle are joined by Ben Kelly to discuss:

• Nokia’s new device lineup.
• Sony buying out Sony Ericsson.
• Motorola’s new RAZR device and Android Ice Cream Sandwich.
• Bendy-screen gadgets.
• Ubuntu coming to smartphones and tablets.
• Cellular roaming tactics.

Our technology picks of the week:

• Ben Kelly: The new iOS app for Ancestry.
• Brett Haggard: execMobile and Sony W-series.
• Simon Dingle: imWatch.

Is there still hope for BlackBerry? Can Lenovo make a dent in the tablet market? We don’t know the answers to these questions, but are willing to speculate wildly. This week Andy Hadfield, Simon Dingle and Steven Ambrose discuss;

• The Lenovo K1 tablet.
• Samsung pulling the Tab 7.7 from its stand at IFA.
• The Amazon tablet.
• App stores and operators.
• iOS 5.
• The launch of Telkom Business Mobile.
• Evernote acquiring Skitch.
• Google shutting down old projects.
• And more…

Our technology picks this week:

• Steven Ambrose: The new BlackBerry Torch 9860 and Mecer’s 4-port USB hub with Ethernet.
• Andy Hadfield: Rugby World 2011 app for iPhone, Android and BlackBerry.
• Simon Dingle: Motorola Atrix.

Joining us on the show this week is Samantha Beckbessinger, Toby Shapshak and Simon Dingle. We discuss;

• BlackBerry’s new device line-up.
• HP WebOS devices.
• Digital publishing and the role of print.
• ADSL woes in SA.
• Predictions of SA’s IT market size.
• Cory Doctorow’s tablet bashing.

Our technology picks this week:

• Sam Beckbessinger: If this then that and The Inside Experience from Intel and Toshiba.
• Toby Shapshak: The new BlackBerry line-up. And paper.
• Simon Dingle: Roku 2.