Your panel of tech pundits this week includes Brett Haggard, Candice Jones and Duncan McLeod who join Simon Dingle to discuss:

Our technology picks and pick-ons of the week:

• Simon Dingle – Picks: Samsung Galaxy S and Tungle.me.
• Duncan McLeod – Picks: HTC Desire and Zimbra.
• Candice Jones – Picks: Nintendo 3DS.
• Brett Haggard – Picks: VMWare Fusion 3.1 and GOG.com.

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The crew this week consists of Brett Haggard, Duncan McLeod, Steven Ambrose and Nic Callegari. They discuss:

• An update from Icasa’s recent stakeholders’ meeting.
• Spectrum allocation in South Africa.
• The ISPA call for mandatory voice line rentals to be dropped on ADSL connections.
• Internet line speed and quality tests.
• World Wide Worx’ The Mobile Internet in SA 2010 research.
• Samsung Bada and the mobile app war.
• Microsoft Communicator for Nokia phones.
• Apple’s market capitalisation surpassing Microsoft’s for the first time.
• Microsoft Office 2010.
• DStv’s HD PVR P2 decoder.
• Monitor technology and the rise of OLED.

Our picks and pick-ons of the week:

• Duncan McLeod – Picks: Cred.
• Steven Ambrose – Picks: Samsung PL150.
• Nic Callegari – Picks: PayCity, RunPee, Maximus Cards and MifiClub.
• Brett Haggard – Picks: Iomega ScreenPlay TV Link Director Edition.

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This week Brett Haggard, Duncan McLeod and Simon Dingle drink some wine, eat some chinese and discuss:

• MTN’s “Uncapped” mobile “broadband”.
• MWEB’s “uncapped” wireless broadband.
• Google’s Chrome Web Store and Google TV.
• The cloud race featuring Canonical, Google, Microsoft and Apple.
• Microsoft Office 2010 Starter Edition.
• The explosion of TopTV and price reductions for DStv.
• 900Mhz mobile broadband.
• The Linkbook.

Our picks and pick-ons of the week:

• Simon Dingle – Picks: Iomega iConnect and Alan Wake.
• Brett Haggard – Picks: Ubuntu Netbook Remix and Daemon by Daniel Suarez.

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Duncan McLeod and Simon Dingle brave traffic, flu and chat-room critics to discuss:

• Progress at Cell C.
• Telkom Mobile’s prospects.
• DStv On Demand.
• The realities of uncapped ADSL access in SA.
• ODM’s TopTV launch and the overwhelming demand for the service.
• TechCentral’s Debate Series debut.
• All the announcements from BlackBerry WES 2010.
• New Android devices.
• Rumours of a Nokia tablet.
• Xbox Live.
• Half-Life 2: Episode 3.

Our picks and pick-ons of the week:

• Duncan McLeod: Picks – Parallels Desktop 5.
• Simon Dingle: Picks - Xbox 360 Wireless N Networking Adapter.

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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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We’re back at our studio under construction this week. Simon Dingle is your host, with TechCentral’s Duncan McLeod and Thunk! Perspective Lab’s Don Packett joining the panel for discussions on:

• Motorola’s Milestone launch and Android 2.1.
• Vodacom slashing its data rates.
• Fibre to the home in South Africa.
• Google’s local operations.
• Xbox Live rumours.
• Microsoft Office 2010.
• Die Antwoord and related online phenomena.
• The Gizmodo Apple iPhone prototype and how unreal we think it is.
• The launch of Top TV.
• Good results from top tech companies.
• Steam on Mac.
• Legends of Echo.
• iPad confiscation in Israel.
• Fixed-line interconnect and local number portability.
• Microsoft’s big BEE announcement.
• MTN in merger or acquisition talks again, this time with Orascom Telecoms.

Our picks and pick-ons of the week:

• Duncan Mcleod – Picks: Just Cause 2.
• Don Packett – Picks: Cobus Potgieter.
• Simon Dingle – Picks-on: Nokia Messaging.

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Ben Kelly, Brett Haggard, Jon Tullett and Simon Dingle are your panel this week. They discuss:

• The delayed international launch of the iPad.
• The local launch of the HTC Legend, Desire and Smart.
• The Microsoft Kin.
• App stores versus the web.
• Opera Mini hits the iPhone.
• ICASA’s announcements on interconnect and mobile TV.
• The outlook for Telkom Mobile.
• IPTV.
• The impact of faster DSL on SA’s ISPs.

Our picks and pick-ons of the week:

• Jon Tullett – Picks-on: MWEB uncapped ADSL.
• Ben Kelly – Picks: Words With Friends.
• Brett Haggard – Picks: Linkinus and Tweetdeck (for iPad, mostly).
• Simon Dingle – Picks: FlightRadar24 – watch planes fly around the ash.

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Two first-timers join the ZA Tech Show panel this week – stand-up comedian and co-founder of Thunk! Perspective Lab, Don Packett and CTO of the Johannesburg Area Wireless Users Group, Kieran Murphy join Duncan McLeod and Simon Dingle to discuss:

• Duncan’s experiences with the Nokia Booklet 3G.
• Wireless users groups.
• Rumours of Multichoice preparing transactional video-on-demand services via DStv, as well as the possibility of a porn channel.
• The 10 billionth iTunes Music Store download.
• Sony’s 3D broadcasts of the 2010 Fifa World Cup and 3D TV in general.
• Heavy Rain, new-school Mario and gaming in general.
• The Nokia E72.
• Mobile Linux distributions.
• Exclusive Books getting into the ebooks game.

Our picks and pick-ons of the week:

• Duncan McLeod – Picks: The Opera 10.5 beta web browser.
• Kieran Murphy – Picks: Thesixtyone music adventure.
• Simon Dingle – Picks: Plants vs. Zombies.
• Don Packett – Picks: Fitness Builder for iPhone.

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Easing their way into 2010, our panel of geeks this week consists of Duncan McLeod, Simon Dingle and Toby Shapshak. They discuss

• On Digital Media (ODM) – South Africa’s second pay TV operator.
• Google’s intention to stop filtering information in China.
• Microsoft’s focus on Xbox and progress with Windows 7.
• Mobile gaming moving to phones.
• The local launch of the BlackBerry Bold 9700.
• Internet filtering in Australia and China.

Our picks of the week:

• Duncan McLeod – Vlingo.
• Toby Shapshak – Blue Lounge Studio Desk and CableDrop.
• Simon Dingle – N.O.V.A., BlackBerry OS 5.0 and GodMode in Windows 7.

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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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