Simon has lost his brain this week and Duncan’s attention span is missing too. Nevertheless, we attempt to compose ourselves and discuss:

• Multichoice launching its DSTV HD service with PVR pricing and full details.
• Nokia’s new E-series business smartphones.
• MTN’s 7.1 billion rand investments, including fibre roll-out.
• A former Vodacom executive being accused of perjury.
• Papi Molotsane’s small fortune.
• The debates at this year’s Internetix conference.
• Jake White getting into blogging and vlogging with Youtube.
• The “king of spam” committing suicide.

And much more…

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This week Duncan’s in Ghana. Something about CNN. He Skypes in and we discuss:

• Why Google didn’t do a doodle for Madiba’s birthday.
• The HP 2133 sub-notebook. Or ‘netbook’, if you will. Brett has one to play with.
• Nokia’s Music store launching in South Africa.
• The Apple versus Psystar court case.
• The WOW Glider court case.
• Nintendo’s Wii taking the lead in US console sales.
• Neotel launching its enterprise services.
• Apple blocking VoIP on the new 3G iPhone.
• Updates on the Viacom vs. Youtube case.
• BT rolling out fibre in the UK.

And more…

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In our 20th episode of ZA Tech Show we discuss:

• The international launch of Apple’s 3G iPhone.
• Pieter Uys taking over from Alan Knott-Craig as Vodacom Group CEO.
• Vodacom’s content adaption service status.
• ASUS Eee PC 1000 and the growing netbook market.
• Multichoice’s new DSTV dual-view offering and the approaching launch of DSTV HD.
• Digital media distribution and licensing.
• Musica selling counterfeit Playstation accessories.
• ISO’s rejection of the OOXML appeal.
• The global DNS security update.

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This week the ZA Tech Show crew is joined by Google South Africa’s country manager, Stafford Masie. We discuss:

• Google’s mobile drive for SA.
• Google Maps and the development of services for the local market.
• Youtube.
• Google Apps.
• Local bandwidth costs and performance in terms of delivering services.
• Social networking, its impact on business, and privacy online.
• Google potentially surrendering Youtube logs to Viacom.
• IS Labs incubating new web businesses in SA.
• Local Web 2.0 development and what it needs to succeed.
• Focused social networking ala Ning.
• Using consumer-orientated web services for business.
• The move from search to discovery.
• The continuing uproar over Vodafone Live! banner injections and proxy manipulation on Vodacom’s network.
• Nvidia’s price versus performance problems and AMD’s XGP external graphic’s solution for laptops.

And much more…

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