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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Jon’s away in Boston this week but Ben, Simon, Duncan and Brett spent Friday afternoon drinking beer and discussing, amongst other things:

• Internet Explorer 8 and Firefox 3
• The enigma that is Steve Ballmer
• The Xbox 360 price-cut
• The iPhone SDK
• Eassy getting the green-light
• Neotel’s consumer offerings
• DSTV’s price-hike

Oh, you’ll also need to watch this, we discuss it in the show:

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In this episode of ZATS, Ben Kelly joins us via Skype all the way from Palo Alto in the USA with Simon Dingle, Brett Haggard, Jon Tullett and Duncan McLeod in Johannesburg. We discuss the following:

• HP Labs
• New chip announcements from Intel and AMD
• The future of mobile computing and graphics hardware
• Console vs. PC gaming
• Frets on Fire
• Sentech discontinuing MyWireless
• Alan Knott-Craig stepping down as group CEO of Vodacom
• iPhone triangulation in SA
• Google’s local offerings
• Submarine cable policy
• Cloud computing
• Document security
• Adobe AIR
• Microsoft Silverlight
• The Xbox 360 Blu-ray player
• Xbox Live in SA

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