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 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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In this episode we discuss:

• The launch of Getmo.com - a new media download service.
• Zain/Celtel’s possible entry into the SA market.
• Microsoft’s Tech Ed conference.
• Red Hat setting up office in South Africa.
• The IBM Microsoft-free desktop.
• Ubuntu’s MID edition for portable internet devices.
• MWEB becoming a reseller for Vodacom Service Provider.
• ABSA and Telkom’s deal.
• Neotel’s first television advert.
• The state of spam.

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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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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 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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This week’s episode of ZA Tech Show features special guest and billionaire spaceman Mark Shuttleworth, on the line from London. We discuss:

• The international appeal to reverse ISO’s decision on OOXML.
• Open standards.
• The rise and future of Ubuntu and Linux.
• Linux’ desktop readiness.
• Firefox 3 nearing final release date.
• The future of open source and its impact on platforms outside of just software.
• Sub-notebooks, the OLPC and how these initiatives impact on education in the developing world.
• Driving collaboration in open communities.
• Windows 7.
• The adoption of open source by traditionally proprietary companies.
• The importance of open API’s in Web 2.0.
• What to expect in the next version of Ubuntu Linux.
• MTN’s talks with Reliance.
• Eskom’s investments in infrastructure.
• Dell being sued for fraud by the city of New York.

Plus you’ll hear Mark answer some unusual questions.

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This week we take the ZATS crew back to its vanilla form. No guests, just raw chat. We discuss:

• Cell C’s (possible) introduction of EDGE 2.
• MTN’s acquisition talks.
• The announcement of Nokia’s N78 and N96.
• Microsoft PlaysForSure biting the big one.
• The iPhone going global - and heading for South Africa on Vodafone.
• Vodacom’s ridiculous water damage policy.
• Apple IMC clamping down on grey Apple imports in SA.
• Grand Theft Auto IV’s opening week earnings of half a billion dollars.
• Communication’s minister Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri postponing her budget speech and bungling things up, as usual.

…and probably some other stuff too

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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 Simon Dingle, Ben Kelly, Brett Haggard, Jon Tullett and Duncan McLeod spend a Good Friday morning discussing:

• The passing of Arthur C. Clarke
• Windows Vista Service Pack 1
• Windows XP Service Pack 3
• The rumors surrounding Windows 7
• Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron) beta
• A new virus threat surrounding zip files
• MTN’s performance in the Middle East
• Telkom’s new Metro LAN offering
• West coast versus East coast bandwidth
• The ‘all you can eat’ iTunes rumor
• How music publishing and distribution are evolving in the digital age

…and some other stuff in-between.

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