This week Brett’s in San Francisco and joins us via Skype. Under discussion:

• The future of SSD and what it enables. Intel has some compelling offerings on the way.
• Gartner Symposium 2008 - Simon and Ben look at this year’s event.
• Duncan has the Multichoice HD PVR and gives his impressions.
• Eyeballs mobile advertising platform.
• Instant messaging and convergence.
• Cell C’s improved market performance.
• Intel’s Nehalem and Laraby processors and how they will change the game.
• Sony confirming that the PSP Phone is on the way.
• Microsoft’s planned responsive advertising campaign against the famous ‘I’m a Mac’ ads from Apple.

And more…

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Apple has launched the South African iTunes Music Store to provide apps to iPhone and iPod Touch users. Unfortunately Apple has disabled the podcast directory for South African iTunes account holders, and those of most of the new stores recently launched. If you subscribed before the switch then you will be unaffected by this, but new users from the South African store receive a message stating, “The item you’ve requested is not currently available in the South African store” when trying to view our listing, or subscribe. Fortunately there is a way to get around this.

• Open iTunes and click on ‘iTunes Store’ in the left panel.
• Scroll to the bottom of the store’s front page and find ‘My store:’.
• In the drop down menu next to ‘My Store’ select United Kingdom or United States.
• After the page has refreshed, subscribe to ZA Tech Show using our iTunes store URL or search for ‘ZA Tech Show’ in the store directory.

Hopefully Apple will soon rectify what must be an error in its store rollout. Until then, please share this workaround with your networks.

This week we have a studio audience (even). And we discuss:

• The massive changes taking place in South African television.
• When and if we’ll ever see DVB-H in South Africa.
• Initial impressions on the Nokia N96, now that we have one to review - and how much we love the E71.
• Mobile phones on aeroplanes and why we can’t use them. Really.
• Acer finally letting us know when we’ll see the Aspire One locally, with pricing.
• Where netbooks belong and what they should cost.
• WiMAX and Intel’s announced support for the technology.
• Intel Centrino 2 and how it will change mobile computers.
• USB 3.0 and Firewire 3200.
• Cancelling cell contracts in South Africa.
• Vodacom versus ICASA.

And Brett talks about his light saber. It makes him happy.

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In this episode we discuss:

• The launch of Getmo.com - a new media download service.
• Zain/Celtel’s possible entry into the SA market.
• Microsoft’s Tech Ed conference.
• Red Hat setting up office in South Africa.
• The IBM Microsoft-free desktop.
• Ubuntu’s MID edition for portable internet devices.
• MWEB becoming a reseller for Vodacom Service Provider.
• ABSA and Telkom’s deal.
• Neotel’s first television advert.
• The state of spam.

And more…

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This week Simon’s in Japan and joins us via Skype. We discuss:

• The legality of MP3Fiesta.com.
• The Hasbro and Mattel versus Scrabulous saga.
• Yahoo! Music being closed down.
• The new, not-so-great Cuil search engine.
• iPhone 2.0.
• The annual Govtech conference.
• Telkom’s strike.
• Vodacom’s new BEE deal.
• Microsoft sponsoring the Apache Software Foundation.
• The release of KDE 4.1.
• The latest pre-release of Ubuntu Linux Intrepid Ibex.

And much more.

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