South African tech journos indulging in beer and opinion…

Episodes in which we discussed Gmail:

ZA Tech Show: Episode 26

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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ZA Tech Show: Episode 21

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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ZA Tech Show: Episode 19

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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ZA Tech Show: Episode 15

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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