South African tech journos indulging in beer and opinion…

Episodes in which we discussed Vodafone:

ZA Tech Show: Episode 20

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.

And more…

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ZA Tech Show: Episode 19

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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ZA Tech Show: Episode 16

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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ZA Tech Show: Episode 15

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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ZA Tech Show: Episode 8

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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