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 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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We have a full-house this week on ZA Tech Show with Simon Dingle, Brett Haggard, Duncan McLeod, Jon Tullett and Ben Kelly discussing:

- ISO ratifying OOXML as a standard
- Google Gears allowing you to work on Google Docs offline
- Douglas Merrill resigning as CIO of Google and going to EMI
- Telkom Media’s troubles
- Broadcast regulation in SA
- SA Blog Awards
- Firefox 3 beta 5
- The PWN to OWN awards
- Wordpress 2.5 and web app security
- The promises of Intel Atom and mobile computing
- SA Cricket entering the blogosphere

It’s all yours for Mahala.

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