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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In our 20th episode of ZA Tech Show we discuss:

• The international launch of Apple’s 3G iPhone.
• Pieter Uys taking over from Alan Knott-Craig as Vodacom Group CEO.
• Vodacom’s content adaption service status.
• ASUS Eee PC 1000 and the growing netbook market.
• Multichoice’s new DSTV dual-view offering and the approaching launch of DSTV HD.
• Digital media distribution and licensing.
• Musica selling counterfeit Playstation accessories.
• ISO’s rejection of the OOXML appeal.
• The global DNS security update.

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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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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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Jon’s away in Boston this week but Ben, Simon, Duncan and Brett spent Friday afternoon drinking beer and discussing, amongst other things:

• Internet Explorer 8 and Firefox 3
• The enigma that is Steve Ballmer
• The Xbox 360 price-cut
• The iPhone SDK
• Eassy getting the green-light
• Neotel’s consumer offerings
• DSTV’s price-hike

Oh, you’ll also need to watch this, we discuss it in the show:

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This is the first ever episode of ZA Tech Show! Simon Dingle, Ben Kelly, Brett Haggard, Jon Tullett and Duncan McLeod sit around on a Friday afternoon and discuss the death of HD DVD, the coming of high definition television to South Africa, the local broadband situation, Vista SP1 and other pressing technology issues.

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