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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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 we play soothsayer ahead of the WWDC announcement’s by Apple, so listen in and see if we were right about anything. Topics discussed include:

• The local launch of Mario Kart for Wii.
• The next-generation iPhone announcement at Apple’s WWDC.
• Apple IMC’s policy on grey imports and resulting newspaper advertisement.
• Other possible WWDC announcements, such as the rumoured Snow Leopard operating system.
• eBook readers and what would make for a killer device in the space.
• MWEB being sold by Naspers.
• Verizon Business being sold to MTN.
• The bid to buy Telkom’s share capital by the Mvelaphanda Group.
• The necessity of a mobile strategy for Telkom.
• New features in Gmail.
• Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri’s exit from cabinet and strange mutterings in a recent speech.

And more…

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This week we take the ZATS crew back to its vanilla form. No guests, just raw chat. We discuss:

• Cell C’s (possible) introduction of EDGE 2.
• MTN’s acquisition talks.
• The announcement of Nokia’s N78 and N96.
• Microsoft PlaysForSure biting the big one.
• The iPhone going global - and heading for South Africa on Vodafone.
• Vodacom’s ridiculous water damage policy.
• Apple IMC clamping down on grey Apple imports in SA.
• Grand Theft Auto IV’s opening week earnings of half a billion dollars.
• Communication’s minister Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri postponing her budget speech and bungling things up, as usual.

…and probably some other stuff too

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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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