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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This week Simon’s in Japan and joins us via Skype. We discuss:

• The legality of MP3Fiesta.com.
• The Hasbro and Mattel versus Scrabulous saga.
• Yahoo! Music being closed down.
• The new, not-so-great Cuil search engine.
• iPhone 2.0.
• The annual Govtech conference.
• Telkom’s strike.
• Vodacom’s new BEE deal.
• Microsoft sponsoring the Apache Software Foundation.
• The release of KDE 4.1.
• The latest pre-release of Ubuntu Linux Intrepid Ibex.

And much 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.

And 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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In this episode of ZA Tech Show we discuss:

• The 3G iPhone along with educated guesses as to when we will see it in SA, and at what price.
• The launch of Apple’s MobileMe service.
• The Ace Aspire One sub-notebook and Eee PC killer.
• Acer’s other market movements, including its launch of a gaming division.
• Desktop Linux.
• Red Hat’s patent achievements.
• Impi Linux, enterprise Linux and competition in the open source space.
• The launch of Firefox 3.
• Plurk.
• Adium X - now with Facebook Chat support.
• Updates on the Apple IMC grey-import saga and Apple’s seeming disregard for developing markets.
• The poo-flinging between Altech and IS.

And more! We’ll also soon be moving ZA Tech Show onto local bandwidth, so watch this space

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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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In our tenth episode of ZA Tech Show we are joined by controversial writer David Bullard and Toby Shapshak, editor of Stuff Magazine. We trade the beer in for whisky and discuss:

• David Bullard speaks candidly about his exit from the Sunday Times.
• The future of media and how South Africa is keeping up with online trends.
• The launch of Grand Theft Auto IV (and Mr. Bullard’s experiences with Leisure Suit Larry).
• Ben and Duncan have benchmarked the Neotel consumer connection and present us with the numbers…
• The beta release of Nokia Maps 2.0 with free world maps.
• What technology we would like to see incorporated into cars… and some things that are.

Note: This episode of ZA Tech Show was posted a little later than usual to accommodate public holidays… and due to an FTP technicality. We apologise for any inconvenience!

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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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