With Seacom down and the World Cup approaching its final weekend Ben Kelly, Duncan McLeod and Simon Dingle gather to discuss:

• The Seacom outage.
• The local loop barrier for bandwidth.
• The possibility of the rumoured Google ‘Newspass’ pay wall for content.
• Wired magazine and its device strategy.
• Google Me.

Our technology picks and pick-ons of the week:

• Duncan McLeod – Picks: Layar, Google Googles and Sky Map.
• Ben Kelly – iRewardChart.
• Simon Dingle – Sony’s HT-CT150 sound system and Qualcomm’s new augmented reality SDK.

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Brett Haggard and Jon Tullett join Simon Dingle to discuss:

• The Gautrain. Trains are technology, right?
• The new ACE undersea cable that will run up Africa’s West Coast.
• Telkom’s next moves.
• Contention ratios – why are they secret?
• Monopolies and comebacks.
• R&D at Microsoft.
• iPhone 4.
• The WirelessG iPod deal.
• Google StreetView in SA and custom homepages.

Our picks and pick-ons of the week:

• Jon Tullett – Picks: Manufactoria.
• Brett Haggard – Picks: iPad Camera Connection Kit and Freedom™ by Daniel Suarez.
• Simon Dingle – Picks and picks-on: Sony Vaio P Series and picks: Red Dead Redemption.

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Stafford Masie returns to the show this week, joining Ben Kelly, Brett Haggard, Duncan McLeod and Simon Dingle to discuss:

• WayTag, one of Stafford’s new projects.
• The role of content in telecoms.
• Predictions for Apple’s WWDC event.
• The realities surrounding cloud computing.
• Computational biology, quantum computing, the singularity and a general chat on scary computing futures.
• The evolution of storage.
• Discussions at the recent D Conference.
• Taking social media to corporate.
• Spectrum auctions in SA and Skyrove entering the fray.

Our picks and pick-ons of the week:

• Brett Haggard – Picks: DownStorm.
• Ben Kelly – Picks: Twitter for iPhone.
• Stafford Masie – Picks: Huddle.
• Duncan McLeod – Picks: Marca’s World Cup calendar.
• Simon Dingle – Picks and Picks-on: Multichoice’s new DStv HD PVR 2P decoder.

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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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Jon Tullett returns to the show as your host this week, joining Brett Haggard and Duncan McLeod to discuss:

• FNB launching PayPal in South Africa.
• Mobile payment systems like M-Pesa.
• The internet access price war and its move to mobile.
• Disintermediation of cellular network services.
• The 2010 Pwn2Own competition.
• The Nintendo DSi XL, now available in SA.
• 3D film and games.

Our picks and pick-ons of the week:

• Jon Tullett – Picks: His car, with USB port (a Kia Sportage).
• Brett Haggard – Picks: The TrickleStar multiplug.

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This week security expert Dominic White makes his debut on the show,  joining Brett Haggard, Duncan McLeod and Simon Dingle. We discuss:

• The ongoing Google-China debacle.
• The Aurora exploit.
• Nokia providing Ovi Maps gratis.
• Telkom’s SAT3 problems last week.
• App store mania.
• In-flight internet access coming to SA.

Our picks and pick-ons of the week:

• Duncan McLeod – Picks: Ipredator from The Pirate Bay.
• Dominic White – Picks: Google Sharing.
• Brett Haggard – Picks: Komodo Edit.
• Simon Dingle – Picks: The LTE Connected Car.

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The panel is substantial this week with Duncan McLeod, Jon Tullett, Brett Haggard, Ben Kelly, Toby Shapshak and Simon Dingle discussing:

• Rica costing cell companies a fortune.
• The iPhone 3GS shortage.
• Telkom’s cable upgrades.
• Icasa’s seeming inability to regulate the communications industry without government’s input.
• Interconnect rates.
• Kindle and the costs.
• Google Wave revisited.

Our picks and pick-ons of the week:

• Ben Kelly: Pick – Big Bang Theory box sets.
• Toby Shapshak: Pick – Acer’s new Aspire 5738DG 3D laptop and Aspire One with Android.
• Brett Haggard: Pick - Tweetdeck 0.31.1
• Jon Tullett: Pick-on – Twitter.
• Duncan McLeod: Pick – Uncharted 2.
• Simon Dingle: Picks – MiFi and Calico.

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Our panel this week consists of Simon Dingle, Gartner analyst Will Hahn, Duncan McLeod, Ivo Vegter, Brett Haggard and Toby Shapshak. We discuss:

• Telecoms – including Seacom, Telkom and the outlook for the market in SA.
• Mobility.
• Launch of the iPhone 3GS in SA.
• Patents in podcasting.

Our picks of the week:

• Will Hahn: Pick – Backups. And Mevio.
• Ivo Vegter: Pick – Poken.
• Brett Haggard: Pick – Marc Forrest’s iPhone tether configuration.
• Duncan McLeod: Pick – Nokia E55.

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Our gathering of geeks this week includes Jon Tullett, Duncan McLeod, Toby Shapshak, Ben Kelly, Brett Haggard and your host, Simon Dingle. We discuss:

• Spectrum allocation, the Icasa way.
• Seacom going live. We plug in and test.
• The problem(s) with Telkom.
• Windows 7 released to manufacturing.
• New Google Calendar labs features.

Our picks and pick-ons of the week:

• Simon: Pick - The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition for iPhone and the HTC Magic Android phone.
• Duncan: Pick – Infraco’s cable between Mtunzini and Johannesburg.
• Toby: Pick-on – Web Africa.
• Ben: Pick – World of Warcraft Armory for iPhone.
• Brett: Pick – Microsoft Arc Mouse and hack to make any trackpad multi-touch.

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Our group of technology enthusiasts this week includes Ben Kelly, Duncan McLeod, Brett Haggard and Simon Dingle, who congregate to discuss:

• Plagiarism and Wikipedia. Poor Chris Anderson.
• Seacom’s delayed launch.
• Pirate Bay suing for human rights infringements.
• Intel and Nokia’s agreement.
• Oracle, Sun, SAP, Larry Ellison and silliness.
• Windows 7 pricing.
• Telkom’s shocking results.

Our choice technologies of the week:

• Duncan McLeod: WeatherZA.
• Simon Dingle: Bento and Filemaker.
• Brett Haggard: Drobo.

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