In this episode the gang is joined by Gerdus van Eeden, CTO of MultiChoice — our first ever guest on the show. We discuss:

• HD TV coming to DSTV, as well as DVB-H and other network features on the way. Gerdus answers all our questions.
• Ben and Duncan have Neotel handsets! We reveal the consumer offering from the SNO, with pricing.
• Ex Telkom CEO Papi Molotsane is threatening to get back into the telco market.
• Altech’s confusing WiMax situation.
• India’s Bharti Airtel rumored to be interested in MTN.
• Interest supposedly shown in GijimaAST by BT.
• Apple’s acquisition of PA Semiconducor and what this could mean for future products.
• The launch of Nintendo’s Wii Fit
• Facebook Chat
• HP launches its first global Concept Store in South Africa.

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This week we recorded the show live from Podcamp SA in Bloemfontein! A big thanks to Nico Baird and the rest of the Podcamp crew who put together a great event, even if we did miss half of it thanks to Duncan blowing out a tyre on the way to Bloem.

In this episode we discuss:

• Podcamp SA
• Fring for the iPhone
• iPhone possibly being released in India through Vodafone
• Gauteng’s planned fibre ring
• Mobile broadband and data
• Cell C supposedly becoming profitable
• The Psystar ‘Open PC’ Mac clone
• More of our investigations into WantItAll
• Apple halting its Safari for Windows stealth installs
• Telkom taking on the Competition Commission
• Seagate suing STEC
• Sun’s Richard Barrington and green computing

And probably some other stuff too…

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All the usual geeks are resident for this episode, in which we discuss:

- A German MP attempting to stop Microsoft from doing business in the EU
- Gartner’s analysis concerning Windows
- The extended OEM period for Windows XP
- Google Apps
- WantItAll
- Podcamp SA
- EMC acquiring Iomega
- Symantec acquiring AppStream
- Adobe Media Player
- The sacking of David Bullard

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We have a full-house this week on ZA Tech Show with Simon Dingle, Brett Haggard, Duncan McLeod, Jon Tullett and Ben Kelly discussing:

- ISO ratifying OOXML as a standard
- Google Gears allowing you to work on Google Docs offline
- Douglas Merrill resigning as CIO of Google and going to EMI
- Telkom Media’s troubles
- Broadcast regulation in SA
- SA Blog Awards
- Firefox 3 beta 5
- The PWN to OWN awards
- Wordpress 2.5 and web app security
- The promises of Intel Atom and mobile computing
- SA Cricket entering the blogosphere

It’s all yours for Mahala.

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