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.

Wondering what to get your geek(s) this festive season? Our special ZA Tech Show holiday crew of Andy Hadfield, Ben Kelly, Brett Haggard and Simon Dingle have some suggestions for you. In this, the first of our 2011 holiday specials, we discuss branded notebooks, gaming gifts, gadgets and other great must-haves for this year.

• Twitter users halting a suicide in SA.
• Diablo 3 enabling real-world purchasing of virtual items.
• 3D phone screens and how much we don’t need them.
• The survivalist cult of PC gaming.
• Amazon halting Android app sales because it’s being sued by Apple.
• The “badgeification” of Google News.

Our technology picks of the week:

• Andy Hadfield: The 4-hour Workweek by Timothy Ferriss.
• Simon Dingle: Tripit and Flight Update Pro.
• Brett Haggard: Spotify.
• Steven Ambrose: Sony STR-DN1020 receiver.

It’s all about gaming and mobile this week as Samantha Beckbessinger, Steven Ambrose and Simon Dingle discuss;

• Apple’s iCloud announcement.
• Samsung’s Galaxy S2 and other new Android competitors.
• Nintendo’s Wii U and console gaming.
• Duke Nukem Forever.
• Tomb Raider 2012 announced at E3.
• Facebook’s controversial facial recognition tech.
• The RICA deadline approaching.
• Telkom’s profit slump and long line of kak decisions.

Our technology picks this week:

• Sam Beckbessinger – Picks: Intonow and X-MEN First Class.
• Steven Ambrose – Picks: Noom Weight Loss for Android and YoruFukurou.
• Simon Dingle – Picks: Read It Later and Evernote Premium.

Your crew this week consists of Andy Hadfield, Steven Ambrose and Simon Dingle. We discuss;

• The Nokia E7 and the state of Symbian.
• Vodacom going red.
• Cell C network experiences.
• Chip manufacturing issues in Japan.
• Connecting the iPad with 8ta.
• Nintendo’s 3DS.
• Android’s rocketing market share.

Our technology picks and pick-ons this week:

• Stephen Ambrose – Picks: SwiftKey.
• Andy Hadfield – Picks: No Agenda’s business model and Evernote.
• Simon Dingle – Picks: Lego Star Wars III.

It’s every geek for themself this week as Ben Kelly, Nic Callegari, Sam Beckbessinger and Simon Dingle discuss;

• Firefox 4 and browsers in general
• Camping in Google’s backyard
• Facebook Places launches in SA
• Processor marketing
• Crysis 2
• Science Fiction gets the better of us again
• SA is now 6th in the world for cyber-crime
• Nintendo 3DS
• Online marketing
• Telkom

Our technology picks and pick-ons this week:

• Ben Kelly – Picks: Podio.
• Sam Beckbessinger – Picks: Amazon Appstore for Android.
• Nic Callegari – Picks: Tenda networking products.
• Simon Dingle – Picks:

Arthur Goldstuck makes his debut on the show this week, joining Andy Hadfield and Simon Dingle to discuss;

• The latest Facebook valuation.
• Social networking and revolution.
• The launch of iPad 2.
• Nintendo 3DS hitting the market.
• Near field communications (NFC).
• Google’s ecosystem play.
• Online outsourcing.
• The consumer protection act and its impact on cellular operators.

Our technology picks and pick-ons this week;

• Andy Hadfield – Picks-on: Twitter’s #quickbar and the ESPNcricinfo app.
• Arthur Goldstuck – Picks: Elance.com.
• Simon Dingle – Picks: South Africa’s new CPA.

A very dry ZA Tech Show studio was ably manned by Brett Haggard this week, who was joined by Andy Hadfield and Ben Kelly for a discussion of the week’s technology news, which included;

• Nokia’s turn to Microsoft.
• The rise of Google in mobile.
• The significance of gaming in mobile.
• New tablet announcements from the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.
• Red Bull Mobile and the reinvention of Cell C.

Our technology picks and pick-ons this week:

• Brett Haggard – picks: Open Transport Tycoon.
• Andy Hadfield – picks: MindNode.
• Ben Kelly – picks: Flight Control HD.

Gathered at a secret location Ben Kelly, Brett Haggard, Duncan McLeod and Simon Dingle talk their way through

• Apple becomming the world’s biggest phone vendor.
• Eric Schmidt stepping down as CEO of Google.
• Red Bull Mobile heading to SA.
• Announced launch dates of the Nintendo 3DS.
• HP and the tablet market.
• Mobile price wars in Kenya
• And much more.

Our technology picks and pick-ons this week:

We’re back in Johannesburg with afterthoughts from the Consumer Electronics Show. Aki Anastasiou, Nic Callegari and Simon Dingle settle down with some fine whiskey to discuss;