Your panel this week consists of Ben Kelly, Duncan McLeod, Jon Tullett and Simon Dingle who discuss:

• The iPhone 4.0.1 update and antennaegate.
• Ebooks, audio books and the reading renaissance.
• Smart business on smartphones.
• Inductive charging with Powermat and others.
• Microsoft Kinect local pricing.
• Console gaming.
• Facebook reaching 500 million users.
• Undersea bandwidth cables.
• Spectrum allocation and ICASA’s delays.

Our technology picks (or pick-ons) of the week:

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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Duncan McLeod and Simon Dingle brave traffic, flu and chat-room critics to discuss:

• Progress at Cell C.
• Telkom Mobile’s prospects.
• DStv On Demand.
• The realities of uncapped ADSL access in SA.
• ODM’s TopTV launch and the overwhelming demand for the service.
• TechCentral’s Debate Series debut.
• All the announcements from BlackBerry WES 2010.
• New Android devices.
• Rumours of a Nokia tablet.
• Xbox Live.
• Half-Life 2: Episode 3.

Our picks and pick-ons of the week:

• Duncan McLeod: Picks – Parallels Desktop 5.
• Simon Dingle: Picks - Xbox 360 Wireless N Networking Adapter.

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Ben Kelly, Duncan McLeod, Toby Shapshak and Simon Dingle are lazy this week. In a shorter-than-usual episode of the show they tackle:

• Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 and online gaming.
• Kindle apps, ebooks and tablet PCs.
• The interconnect agreement.
• The looming broadband colloquium.
• Apple’s massive operating profits in mobile.

Our picks and pick-ons of the week:

• Ben Kelly: Pick – BusyCal.
• Toby Shapshak: Pick – Nokia Booklet 3G.

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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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• The demise of a possible merger between cellular giants MTN and Bharti Airtel.
• Interconnect rates.
• Console prices and the PS3 Slim.
• Ebook readers.
• The new iPod Nano with video camera.
• Google Wave.
• Twitter use.

And much more…

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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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An experiment in LAN recording produces interesting results this week as Brett Haggard, Jon Tullett, Duncan McLeod and Simon Dingle connect to discuss:

• Duncan’s new undertaking and plans for world dominance.
• Reduced pricing for gaming consoles.
• The case against Apple.
• Snow Leopard.
• Nokia’s Booklet 3G.
• Cellular network termination rates.

Our picks and pick-ons of the week:

• Jon Tullett: Neverwinter Nights bundle at Incredible Connection.
• Brett Haggard: Windows Home Server and Nokia Comes with Music.

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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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