ZA Tech Show

Gartner analyst Will Hahn returns to the show this week, joining Brett Haggard, Duncan McLeod and Simon Dingle for a chat about Telkom's recent SAT3 troubles, the ongoing interconnect debacle in SA, the progress of mobile data, Microsoft's battle against Apple and Google, sane expectations of the iPad, mobile Core i7 platforms, the migration to voice over IP in cellular, and much more. www.zatech.co.za

Steven Ambrose from WWW Strategy makes his first appearance on the ZA Tech Show this week, joining Brett Haggard, Duncan McLeod and Simon Dingle to discuss Internet access stats for South Africa, the Apple iPad launch, the online services drought in South Africa, progress in Android and Chrome OS, Microsoft falling behind in mobile, Cell C’s “4G” network rollout, cellular networks’ data congestion problems, and much more. www.zatech.co.za

Security expert Dominic White joins us for the first time, with Brett Haggard, Duncan McLeod and Simon Dingle. We discuss the ongoing Google-China debacle, the Aurora exploit, Nokia providing Ovi Maps gratis, Telkom's SAT3 problems last week, app store mania, in-flight internet access coming to SA, and much more. www.zatech.co.za

Easing their way into 2010, our panel of geeks this week consists of Duncan McLeod, Simon Dingle and Toby Shapshak. They discuss On Digital Media (ODM) - South Africa's second pay TV operator, Google's intention to stop filtering information in China, Microsoft's focus on Xbox and progress with Windows 7, mobile gaming moving to phones, the local launch of the BlackBerry Bold 9700, internet filtering in Australia and China, and much more. www.zatech.co.za

In our first episode of the year Ben Kelly, Brett Haggard, Duncan McLeod and Simon Dingle form the panel, with Toby Shapshak dialing in from CES later on in the show. We discuss Parrot's iPhone-controlled helicopter, HP's new tablet and why we need tablets at all, HD Skype, 3-D and other progress in television, Vodacom's legal battle in the DRC, Google's Nexus One. Is Android its own worst enemy? Toby overviews CES for us and digs into Lenovo's new line-up. And then there's our picks of the week, and much more. www.zatech.co.za

In our final episode for 2009 Aki Anastasiou from Talk Radio 702 swings by the ZA Tech studio, joining Brett Haggard, Duncan McLeod and Simon Dingle to discuss Mark Shuttleworth changing his role within Canonical, the Joojoo internet tablet, mobile GPS applications, Google's Nexus One smartphone, the BlackBerry edge, Nokia's services and mobile in 2010, DStv adding Discovery HD and Supersport HD to its bouquet, On Digital Media and what it will amount to, James Cameron's Avatar and the future of 3D video, new tech in car tracking in SA, and much more. www.zatech.co.za

As Christmas 2009 approaches, our panelists are confined to their quarters and must use Skype to converse. Ben Kelly, Brett Haggard, Duncan McLeod, Jon Tullet, Simon Dingle and Toby Shapshak discuss Cell C's network expansion and upgrade, Intel scrapping Larrabee and possibly cosying up to Nvidia, Blackberry's Storm 2, Integration between Twitter and search providers, and much more. www.zatech.co.za

Host of the ZA Show, Glen Verran makes his debut on the ZA Tech Show this week, joining Simon Dingle, Duncan McLeod and Brett Haggard. We discuss podcasting in South Africa, FarmVille and other online games, Twitter's waning popularity, the Nokia N900, Mustek reporting HP to the Competition Commission, Time Inc's tablet-friendly magazine concept, of Windows, Mac and Linux, 3d television and Sony shooting the 2010 World Cup in 3d, Eskom and the future of power production, DSTV launching Super Sport HD, and much more. www.zatech.co.za

With just 10 episodes to go before our 100th show, Ben Kelly, Brett Haggard and Simon Dingle discuss looming fines and other pain for Telkom, mobile virtual network operators and the difference they could make, iBurst's 20Mbps ADSL2+ service, new Navigon GPS products and whether they stand a chance against Google, NDrive for iPhone, Depeche Mode, World of Warcraft and depression, Foursquare and other social networking games, and much much more including our picks of the week. www.zatech.co.za

Brett Haggard, Candice Jones, Duncan McLeod, Jon Tullett and Simon Dingle constitute your panel this week. They discuss the leaked Google Chrome OS, Apple's legal victory over Psystar, the broadband colloquium held by the Department of Communications last week, Telkom's latest results, Microsoft Office 2010, touch interfaces and Lenovo's T400s, and much much more. www.zatech.co.za

Ben Kelly, Duncan McLeod, Toby Shapshak and Simon Dingle are lazy this week. In a shorter-than-usual episode of the show they tackle Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 and online gaming, Kindle apps, ebooks and tablet PCs, the interconnect agreement, the looming broadband colloquium, Apple's massive operating profits in mobile, and much more .www.zatech.co.za

Duncan McLeod, Brett Haggard and Simon Dingle are on the panel this week. Stay tuned for an interview with Lars Rasmussen from Google after the regular show. We discussn new moves in mobile, including Windows Phone, Blackberry and Sony Ericsson’s X10 Android phone, the corporate factor for mobile platforms like Blackberry and Windows Phone, triple-play telecoms, Google Dashboard and Wave, and much more. www.zatech.co.za

With one false-start under the belt Ben Kelly, Duncan McLeod, Toby Shapshak, Simon Dingle and Brett Haggard recompose themselves and discuss the end of TV licenses in South Africa and what the future holds for public broadcasting, MTN's declining subscriber numbers and other telecommunications chaos, the launch of Google Maps in South Africa and why Garmin and Tomtom should be very worried about the new Google Maps Navigation application, rumours mounting over Apple's tablet device, including discussions with publishers, and much more. www.zatech.co.za

This week Simon Dingle, Brett Haggard, Duncan McLeod and Toby Shapshak are joined by developer and winner of Microsoft’s Most Valuable award for Xbox 360 in 2008 and 2009, Craig Nicholson. We discuss the ongoing and intensifying interconnect debacle, Livescribe’s Pulse Smartpen, all things Windows 7, new products from Apple, Snow Leopard Server versus Windows Home Server, and much more... www.zatech.co.za

The panel is substantial this week with Duncan McLeod, Jon Tullett, Brett Haggard, Ben Kelly, Toby Shapshak and Simon Dingle discussing Rica costing cell companies a fortune, the iPhone 3GS shortage, Telkom's cable upgrades, Icasa's seeming inability to regulate the communications industry without government's input, interconnect rates, Kindle and the costs, Google Wave revisited, and our picks and pick-ons of the week plus much more... www.zatech.co.za