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.

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.

• 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.

Covering a surprising amount of ground given the circumstances, involving rum, Brett Haggard, Nic Callegari, Simon Dingle and Toby Shapshak discuss;

• Telkom’s 8ta expanding its network.
• ADSL full of fail in South Africa.
• The Sega hack.
• Duke Nukem Forever.
• The Kinect SDK.
• A new, lighter PS3.
• IBM’s centennial.
• Playbook launching in SA. Kinda.

Our technology picks and pick-ons this week:

• Toby Shapshak – Picks: Apple iPad (yes, yes. We know).
• Nic Callegari – Picks: Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 for iPad.
• Brett Haggard – Picks: Cambox.

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.

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.

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.

Our first show of the year comes to you from Las Vegas, Nevada where the ZA Tech Show attended CES 2011. Brett Haggard and Simon Dingle discuss: