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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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.

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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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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.

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We gather in an overcast Johannesburg this week, sans Ben Kelly, to discuss the following:

• Open document formats and the SABS appealing ISO’s ratification of OOXML.
• The ultra-portable and sub-notebook market and who’s doing what in the space.
• Microsoft’s strategy for Windows on portables.
• Online operating systems, ala Jooce.
• Privacy online and why people trust Google.
• Mashing-up social networks and examples of applications that do this, like Flock.
• Instant messaging.
• Red Hat’s Mugshot.
• Vodacom’s WirelessG, iPass and other innovative wireless offerings, like Skyrove.
• Utility bandwidth.
• Final confirmation of Neotel’s consumer offerings, including uncapped solutions.

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In this week’s episode we’re giving away copies of Norton Antivirus, so take a listen for the details. We also discuss:

• The release of Windows XP Service Pack 3.
• The slow performance of Outlook in Vista.
• WINE finally releasing version 1.0.
• Mac4Lin.
• Progress of the Linux desktop.
• Pzizz - software that makes you sleep. Literally.
• The possibility of a fibre-to-home solution from Neotel. And another slow but uncapped offering too.
• World of Warcraft - and the new ZA Tech Show guild on Whisperwind, US. Send a message to ‘Rootsmanoova’ for an invite…
• InfraCo’s West Coast cable and how it fits into the bigger bandwidth picture.
• New, bigger caps coming to Telkom.
• The first DSTV channel to go HD.
• Noxious Nigel’s attack on local IT professionals and Internet privacy laws.
• Bolton Deventer.
• CNET being acquired by CBS.
• Microsoft and Yahoo! revisited.
• Jon and Google. Not a loving relationship.
• Online verification and why captures are dead.

Durban is probably the best place to live for Fibre… go figure.

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We have a full-house this week on ZA Tech Show with Simon Dingle, Brett Haggard, Duncan McLeod, Jon Tullett and Ben Kelly discussing:

- ISO ratifying OOXML as a standard
- Google Gears allowing you to work on Google Docs offline
- Douglas Merrill resigning as CIO of Google and going to EMI
- Telkom Media’s troubles
- Broadcast regulation in SA
- SA Blog Awards
- Firefox 3 beta 5
- The PWN to OWN awards
- Wordpress 2.5 and web app security
- The promises of Intel Atom and mobile computing
- SA Cricket entering the blogosphere

It’s all yours for Mahala.

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Episode 5 of ZA Tech Show sees a well fed crew of Simon Dingle, Brett Haggard, Jon Tullett, Duncan McLeod and Ben Kelly discussing the following:

• The break-up of Motorola
• Seagate’s threats surrounding solid-state drives
• USB 3.0 and its rival Firewire
• Microsoft’s ‘Albany’
• Other online applications including Photoshop and Picnic
• Google Talk’s new web widget
• The next round of voting for the OOXML document format
• New search-engine Searchme.com
• The future of online search and social-bookmarking
• Sony’s optional removal of bloatware from its laptops
• The new 9″ Eee PC from Asus
• New chip technology from AMD and Intel (and Brett’s remarkable knowledge of silicon)
• Software nostalgia (Simon and Duncan can tell you all about Space Quest. Seriously)

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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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