ZA Tech Show – Episode 60: ‘We call BS’

Posted on Sunday, May 3rd, 2009 at 10:55 by Simon and filed under Podcast episodes, ZA Tech Show.

BS abounds in tech news this week and Jon Tullett, Brett Haggard and Simon Dingle sift through it. We discuss:

  • The unlikeliness of World of Warcraft for mobiles.
  • Retro gaming. Again.
  • Windows 7 gets ‘XP Mode’
  • What is the ultimate upgrade cycle for operating systems?
  • Twitter’s attrition rate.
  • The power of email.
  • A new PSP rumour.
  • AMD shuts down its SA offices.
  • Apple getting in the chip business? No, of course not. It’s BS.

Our technology choices of the week:

  • Brett Haggard: a shameful punt for Connect magazine.
  • Simon Dingle: Gatorpeeps micro-blog platform.

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3 Comments so far

Comment by Herman, posted on May 4th, 2009 at 11:08

Windows 7 might be the BOMB, and I’m impressed with what I saw in the first beta. BUT, you guys talk about it on new machines and the revenue model that Microsoft can charge. Agreed, good for Microsoft, but BAD for us non Windows users. Do you know how difficult (if not impossible) it is to find an international brand laptop without Windows already included? I scream for choice! Even if 70% of the people still choose Windows, at least give me a choice! Do you know how difficult it is to administer a UNIX server from inside Windows?

Comment by Trekelny, posted on May 5th, 2009 at 02:55

Guys, I really loved the retro-games discussion. I went back and counted and I think I have 437 separate utterances of the word “dude!” in that segment. That’s with the exclamation point, not just a comma. And you STILL left out QfG5! I was stunned. I mean- dude!

Comment by Connect Magazine, posted on May 12th, 2009 at 21:38

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