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.

In this episode you’ll hear the voices of casual wine aficionado Andy Hadfield and international man of mystery Stafford Masie who join Simon Dingle to discuss;

• HP’s new direction.
• Amazon’s rise as an ecosystem player.
• The future role of network operators.
• The information revolution.
• Motorola’s XOOM and Atrix.
• News from Gamescom.
• Kids and computing.
• The Twitter ‘walkout’.
• ‘Retweet’ and ‘sexting’ entering the dictionary.

Our technology picks this week:

• Stafford Masie: Arduino and Quantified Self.
• Andy Hadfield: Carbonite.
• Simon Dingle: Mobile Mouse.

Sam Beckbessinger makes her debut on this week’s episode, joining Nic Callegari and Simon Dingle to discuss;

• Vodacom and MTN’s TV-internet thingies..
• Battle of the Twitter clients.
• Linux’ desktop readiness.
• More on new tablet offering’s.
• BlackBerry’s deck of cards.
• Star Trek porn (don’t ask).
• The rescue of FireID.

Our technology picks and pick-ons this week:

• Nic Callegari – Picks: Posterous.
• Sam – Picks-on: Catbook and picks: Maria Fischer’s Traumgedanken.
• Simon – Picks: SugarSync.

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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