Your panelists this week are Andy Hadfield, Brett Haggard and Simon Dingle. With classy wine in-hand, we discuss;

• Google+ and Facebook blocking contact exports.
• Facebook video chat with Skype.
• Preparing for OSX Lion.
• Android tablets.
• Comscore’s market update for Q2 smartphone sales.
• Nokia 2.0.
• Lenovo.

Our technology picks this week:

• Andy Hadfield – Picks: Dragon Age II.
• Brett Haggard – Picks: Lego Instructions for iOS.
• Simon Dingle – Picks: Objet260 3D printer.

We switch to water as our in-studio drink this week thanks to the presence of Aki Anastasiou and Toby Shapshak on our panel. They join Brett Haggard and Simon Dingle to discuss;

• Microsoft’s acquisition of Skype.
• BlackBerry’s make or break situation.
• The Endeavor space shuttle launch.
• Sony restoring Playstation Network.
• Neotel’s new consumer telephony service.

Our technology picks and pick-ons this week:

• Toby Shapshak – The joy of retro (don’t look at us).
• Aki Anastasiou – Picks: Apple TV.
• Brett Haggard – Picks: Seamless.
• Simon Dingle – Picks: BlackBerry Tablet OS.

With Simon away this week, Brett Haggard is at the helm of the ZA Tech Show. He is joined by Samantha Perry and Ben Kelly to discuss:

• Vodacom “going red” and competitors’ reactions.
• 3G versus DSL.
• The possibility of fibre to the home in SA.
• Local loop unbundling.
• The Sony PS3 hacker.
• The longevity of 3D.

Our technology picks and pick-ons this week:

• Samantha Perry – Picks: Skype.
• Ben Kelly – Picks: Ion TTUSB Turntable.
• Brett Haggard – Picks: Ubuntu 10.10 on Lenovo hardware.

Simon Dingle, Brett Haggard and debutant Andy Hadfield are on the panel this week. They discuss;

Our technology picks and pick-ons of the week:

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The panel this week is led by Brett Haggard who is joined by Duncan McLeod and Jon Tullett to discuss:

• The launch of Telkom Mobile.
• Cell C’s ongoing 4Gs rollout.
• Uncapped broadband.
• Microsoft’s new consumer focus.
• The BlackBerry PlayBook.
• Mobile connectivity.
• Bit-pipes and revenue.

Our picks and pick-ons of the week:

• Jon Tullett – Picks and picks-on: Navigon 3300 Max.
• Brett Haggard – Picks: Tomtom for iPhone and iPod Touch and Plex.
• Duncan McLeod – Picks: Namibia (Hey, don’t look at us).

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Brett Haggard and Simon Dingle talk their way through an interesting tech news week with acquisitions, much-ados about nothing and veins of awesomeness.

• The iPhone 4 storm in a teacup.
• The flood of business news this week including MTN, Naspers and Dimension Data.
• YouTube’s partner programme going live in South Africa.
• More hints at BlackBerry 6.
• Windows Phone 7 for developers.
• Converged devices.
• Movement in the ebook space.

Our technology picks and pick-ons of the week:

• Brett Haggard – Picks:  Guacamole.
• Simon Dingle – Picks: Angry Birds.

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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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We’re in our new studio space this week, echoes, unpainted walls and all. Brett Haggard, Don Packett, Duncan McLeod and Simon Dingle are your panel this week. We discuss:

• The future of Cell C.
• Improving PC sales and analysts’ expectations for tablet computers.
• Microsoft Mix and the prospects for Windows Phone.
• Sony’s 8001050F error on the PS3.
• Apple vs. HTC in patent dispute.
• In-flight WiFi coming to Mango.
• HP’s Pavilion DM1 netbook.
• Dropped calls on Vodacom and the smartphones that apparently cause them.
• iBurst’s new iDSL service with unlimited bandwidth for gaming.
• Telkom bumping up speed on ADSL lines.

Our picks and pick-ons of the week:

• Duncan McLeod – Picks: Skype for Symbian.
• Brett Haggard – Picks: The Macheist nanoBundle 2.
• Don Packett – Picks: Mi-World and the Mi-Bar for geeks.

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The ZA Tech Show turns 100 this week and we celebrated with our first ever live broadcast and some really expensive champagne. Ben Kelly, Brett Haggard, Duncan McLeod, Jon Tullett, Toby Shapshak and Simon Dingle discuss:

• Microsoft Windows Phone Series 7.
• Development on mobile platforms.
• Google and Android at the Mobile World Congress 2010.
• Intel and Nokia’s MeeGo announcement.
• The release of Starcraft 2 beta.
• Heavy Rain for the PS3.
• Samsung’s new Bada operating system and the new Wave.
• Powermat induction charging.
• Verizon’s partnership with Skype.

Our picks and pick-ons of the week:

• Toby Shapshak – Picks: NTT Docomo’s eye-controlled phone and Motorola’s Golden Eye.
• Jon Tullett: Picks and picks-on: GConnect from WirelessG.
• Ben Kelly – Picks: The PC Museum’s Vintage PC Twitter stream.
• Brett Haggard – Picks: The Mifi, soon with app store.
• Simon Dingle – Picks: Powermat with iPhone adapter and Rogue Amoeba software.

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