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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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 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.

And more…

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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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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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