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:

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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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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In our final episode for 2009 Aki Anastasiou from Talk Radio 702 swings by the ZA Tech studio, joining Brett Haggard, Duncan McLeod and Simon Dingle to discuss:

• Mark Shuttleworth changing his role within Canonical.
• The Joojoo internet tablet.
• Mobile GPS applications.
• Google’s Nexus One smartphone.
• The BlackBerry edge, Nokia’s services and mobile in 2010.
• DStv adding Discovery HD and Supersport HD to its bouquet.
• On Digital Media and what it will amount to.
• James Cameron’s Avatar and the future of 3D video.
• New tech in car tracking in SA.

Our picks and pick-ons of the week:

• Brett Haggard: Picks – Samsung WB5000 digital camera.
• Duncan McLeod: Picks – Mozilla Thunderbird 3.0 email client.
• Simon Dingle: Picks – MarsEdit 2.4 blog publisher.
• Aki Anastasiou: Picks – Kilofuel iPhone application.

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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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Special guest Dwayne Bailey from Translate.org.za adds his voice to the show this week along with Duncan McLeod, Brett Haggard, Simon Dingle and later Samantha Perry. We discuss:

• Translation work in software.
• Changes in Microsoft’s Office strategy.
• Open source.
• Patents on XML use in document formats.
• Microsoft and Nokia’s alliance.
• Nokia vs. Apple vs. Microsoft vs. Google vs. Blackberry.

And much more…

Our picks and pick-ons of the week:

• Duncan McLeod – Pick – GSM short codes.
• Samantha Perry – likes her new Mac (pick).
• Dwayne Bailey – Pick: FishMS.
• Brett Haggard – Pick: Mobile Air mouse.
• Simon Dingle – Picks: iDisk and Keynote Remote apps for iPhone.

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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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Three geeks gather amidst public holidays to discuss:

• Mobile broadband and then some.
• The power of Chinese manufacturing.
• Oracle to buy Sun Microsystems. What would this mean for MySQL?
• Windows 7 RC1 leaked.
• Netbooks, nettops and the operating systems that make them work.
• Chips. Again.
• Adobe pens deal to have Flash embedded in hardware.
• Symantec announces detection of a Mac botnet.
• Pirate Bay founders found guilty.
• The new Nintendo DSi is apparently selling like hotcakes.

And more…

Our choice technologies of the week:

• Brett Haggard: Live streaming IPL cricket.
• Simon Dingle: Nambu – a Twitter client.
• Jon Tullett: Nothing really, but sort of Travian.

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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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