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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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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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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Host of the ZA Show, Glen Verran makes his debut on the ZA Tech Show this week, joining Simon Dingle, Duncan McLeod and Brett Haggard. We discuss:

• Podcasting in South Africa.
• FarmVille and other online games.
• Twitter’s waning popularity.
• The Nokia N900.
• Mustek reporting HP to the Competition Commission.
• Time Inc’s tablet-friendly magazine concept.
• Of Windows, Mac and Linux.
• 3d television and Sony shooting the 2010 World Cup in 3d.
• Eskom and the future of power production.
• DSTV launching Super Sport HD.

Our picks and pick-ons of the week:

• Glen Verran: Picks – The HDTV and Home Theatre Podcast and The Mede8er.
• Duncan McLeod: Pick - Garmin Nuvi 1410.
• Brett Haggard – Pick – Threadsy (yes, again).
• Simon Dingle: Maemo Linux and New Super Mario Bros. for Wii.

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This week Simon Dingle, Brett Haggard, Duncan McLeod and Toby Shapshak are joined by developer and winner of Microsoft’s Most Valuable award for Xbox 360 in 2008 and 2009, Craig Nicholson. We discuss:

• The ongoing and intensifying interconnect debacle.
• Livescribe’s Pulse Smartpen.
• All things Windows 7.
• New products from Apple.
• Snow Leopard Server versus Windows Home Server.

Our picks and pick-ons of the week:

• Simon Dingle: Picks – Machinarium and the Livescribe Pulse Smartpen.
• Craig Nicholson: Picks – Football Genius and the new Xbox dashboard update.
• Duncan McLeod: Picks – Samsung Jet.
• Toby Shapshak: Picks – Stuff’s ‘Gadget of the Year’ awards and the HTC Hero.
• Brett Haggard: Picks – Tomtom for iPhone, now with SA maps.

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This week Duncan McLeod, Brett Haggard and Simon Dingle discuss:

• Interconnect and other prices.
• Feedback from Nokia World.
• Snow Leopard.
• Google Street View.
• Sony.
• Hosted Blackberry BES.
• Apple’s September announcement.

Our picks and pick-ons of the week:

• Brett Haggard – an early version of Blackberry Desktop Manager for Mac that he found on the net.
• Duncan McLeod – Panasonic’s SDR-H80 Camcorder.
• Simon Dingle – Nokia’s ultra rad BH-905 headset.

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Duncan McLeod, Toby Shapshak, Brett Haggard and Simon Dingle are on the panel this week. They discuss:

• District 9.
• Piracy and its impact .
• Neotel Neogo tested.
• Exploding iPhones.
• Apple’s September announcement.
• The PS3 Slim.
• Facebook, FriendFeed and other social networking news.
• Digital terrestrial television (DTT).
• Spectrum allocation.
• Twitter and tweeting.

Our picks and pick-ons of the week.

• Simon Dingle: Pick – GeeXboX media server.
• Toby Shapshak: Pick – District 9.
• Duncan McLeod: NeoGo, but not really.
• Brett Haggard: Pick – MacDrive and iDefrag.

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In this episode our geeks are spread out across SA. Simon Dingle, Jon Tullett and Will Hahn are in Cape Town for Gartner Symposium 2009, Brett Haggard is in Durban for Microsoft TechEd and Duncan McLeod is at home with his bulldogs in Johannesburg. They hook up on Skype to discuss:

• Gartner Symposium.
• Microsoft TechEd – Windows 7, Live Mesh and all things MS.
• Screens and the rumoured Apple tablet.
• The Nikon S1000pj camera with built-in projector.
• The evolution of interfaces.
• Mobile broadband.
• Eric Schmid leaving the Apple board.

And more…

Our pick and pick-ons for the week:

• Brett Haggard: Picks – Microsoft Live Mesh and VMWare Fusion 2.
• Duncan McLeod: Pick – Microsoft Windows 7 RTM.
• Jon Tullett: Grooveshark.
• Will Hahn: Pick-on – Telkom. Pick – Nintendo Wii.

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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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Ivo Vegter makes his debut appearance on the ZA Tech Show this week, by popular demand. He joins Simon Dingle, Duncan McLeod, Brett Haggard, Toby Shapshak and Ben Kelly for a chat about:

• Walled gardens, open systems and whether or not we should care.
• “Evil” technology companies and market perceptions.
• Google and Microsoft’s game of tit-for-tat.
• Google Chrome OS.
• New HD channels coming to DSTV.
• The move to digital terrestrial television (DTT) and MNET’s advantage.

And much more…

Our picks and pick-ons of the week:

• Toby Shapshak – Pick: VLC, which has now reached version 1.0.
• Brett Haggard – Picks: the Monkey Island revival and Linux Mint.
• Ivo Vegter – Pick-on: The R6 million 2010 Durban website.
• Ben Kelly – Pick: Travian (yes, yes. Jon has picked it before).
• Ducan McLeod – Pick: Grooveshark.
• Simon Dingle – Pick: Simple CSS (which he confused with another app. Wrong description in the show, but check it out anyway)

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