This week we are joined by Jason Norwood-Young from the Mail & Guardian and Altech Autopage Celular’s CEO Craig Venter. We discuss:

• The high court’s industry-changing decision regarding Altech Autopage Cellular and the VANS industry.
• Comcast in the USA enforcing bandwidth caps at 250 gigabytes and the state of limited access in South Africa.
• Mobile data routing.
• Jason provides dodgy tips for hackers.
• Mozilla Ubiquity - stitching Web content together has never been this easy or awesome.
• Microsoft Silverlight, Adobe Flash, AIR and the future of Web apps.
• Mark Surman leaving the Shuttleworth Foundation and joining the Mozilla Foundation as executive director.
• Britons unhappy with the iPhone’s lack of Flash. Apparently the casing on the 3G iPhone cracks too.
• The introduction of 802.11s and wireless mesh networks.
• The legality of wireless user groups.
• Boosting wireless signals. Don’t try this at home. Seriously.
• The perceived danger of cellular waves (btw, check out this link if you, like Jon, want to know more about non-ionising radiation).

And more….

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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 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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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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This week we have two guests on ZA Tech Show - Simon from Have2Have and Justin from WantItAll who join us to discuss:

• Amazon’s decision to stop posting orders to South Africa.
• The arrival of the ASUS Eee PC 901.
• More info on the Acer Aspire One.
• Ping.fm
• The Spore Creature Creator.
• The future of software delivery.
• The High Court’s ruling on Telkom.
• New ICASA regulations for WiMAX frequency spectrum.
• ICASA regulations regarding cellular handset subsidies.
• Increases in line rentals from Telkom.

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In this episode the gang is joined by Gerdus van Eeden, CTO of MultiChoice — our first ever guest on the show. We discuss:

• HD TV coming to DSTV, as well as DVB-H and other network features on the way. Gerdus answers all our questions.
• Ben and Duncan have Neotel handsets! We reveal the consumer offering from the SNO, with pricing.
• Ex Telkom CEO Papi Molotsane is threatening to get back into the telco market.
• Altech’s confusing WiMax situation.
• India’s Bharti Airtel rumored to be interested in MTN.
• Interest supposedly shown in GijimaAST by BT.
• Apple’s acquisition of PA Semiconducor and what this could mean for future products.
• The launch of Nintendo’s Wii Fit
• Facebook Chat
• HP launches its first global Concept Store in South Africa.

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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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