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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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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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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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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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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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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Jon Tullett, Candice Jones and Simon Dingle talk their way through:

• Telecommunications in South Africa post Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri.
• Will South Africa’s electric car, the Joule, ever hit the road?
• The digital music price war.
• DRM, piracy and bandwidth dynamics.
• Telkom’s mobile offering and restructuring.
• 97% of all email is spam, according to Microsoft.
• The ups and downs of BlackBerry.
• ARM-based netbooks.
• The netbook conundrum.
• Wii production costs go down, but prices hold fast.

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Our choice technologies this week:

• Candice Jones: PinPoint from Leaf.
• Jon Tullett: Battle for Wesnoth and Maximum PC’s DIY multi-touch computer.
• Simon Dingle: Seesmic Desktop and Posterous.

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The team this week consists of Jon Tullett, Duncan McLeod, Brett Haggard, Simon Dingle, Tiana Alswang and Rein Hillmann from CocoaHeads Johannesburg.

We discuss:

• The Xbox Live lag.
• CocoaHeads in SA – Rein tells us more.
• Software development in South Africa.
• Hands on with the BlackBerry Storm.
• Nokia’s music service and 5800 launching in South Africa.
• Some new game titles that are being released in March.
• Gaming on the Mac platform.
• OpenGL versus DirectX.
• The $20 laptop rumour.
• Telkom fires its COO.
• GTV goes under, strengthening Multichoice in Africa.
• The Apple television rumoured to be in development.
• Netbooks being helped along by the economic crisis.
• Seacom’s progress.

And much more…

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Simon Dingle, Brett Haggard, Jon Tullett and Tiana Alswang get about as festive as four geeks who are still working in the middle of December can and discuss:

• Google’s Chrome browser coming out of beta and the state of the browser nation.
• Google’s plans for global domination.
• Gmail’s new features from the lab.
• Integration of social networks and forced interoperability from technology vendors.
• Japanese scientists getting images from the human brain.
• Johannesburg’s CCTV system in the CBD that can scan vehicle numberplates through eNaTIS.
• Left 4 Dead and its awesomeness.
• EA’s acquisition of Tim Schafer’s genius.
• Little Big Planet, Call of Duty: World at War, Fallout 3, Guitar Hero: World Tour and other titles getting attention this Christmas.
• Jon says Far Cry 2 is boring.
• Sony’s 14 million Playstation Network users.
• The rebirth of Nokia N-Gage as a rounded gaming service and the evolution of mobile gaming.

And more…

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