ZA Tech Show

After a long absence from the show, Simon Dingle returns for a discussion with Brett Haggard and Arthur Goldstuck on the arrival of iTune sin South Africa, Blackberry's chances of survival and the media industry clamping down on piracy, along with much, more.

This week, the ZA Tech Shows hosts two newcomers as Brett Haggard initiates Liron Segev and Julian Pienaar in the hallowed league of extraordinary podcast panelists. They discuss the host of Apple news, the coming of LTE, give us a roundup of trends in the mobile sector and pick-out some unusual and interesting products.

Brett Haggard, Steven Ambrose and David Greenway get together and discuss new Windows 8 hardware from Asus, the imminent arrival of iTunes in South Africa, the arrival of Sony and LG's 4K televisions, and much more, including some fantastic picks and picks-on.

It's a mish-mash of productivity, consumer electronics, gaming and all-round geeky fun in this week's episode as Brett Haggard hosts Sam Beckbessinger and Nicolas Callegari in our Johannesburg studio. Topics discussed include the new version of Evernote, Nokia's Lumia 920, the pricing of the Macbook Retina 12 and all of the upcoming gaming releases, not to mention a host of great picks of the week.

Brett Haggard, Benedict Kelly and Aki Anastasiou return this week in an episode that was double-backed up to ensure it made it out. They discuss trends in the local telecoms market, roundup the gadgets news from the week (including the new Windows Phones, Rocksmith, the new Android devices) and generally speculate about some of the moves that have been made in the technology arena over the past few days.

Brett Haggard, Andy Hadfield and Dominic White congregate for episode 231 of the ZA Tech Show to discuss the launch of Windows 8, some corporate levers for BYOD and how it measures up security-wise, Reuters, Gizmodo slam the Surface and WinRT, security around Windows 8, general password and security tips, Google's device launch: Samsung Nexus 10 Tab, LG Nexus 4 Smartphone with wireless charging, ICS finally makes it onto Motorola Razr in South Africa, Steve Jobs' yacht launches, Windows Phone event - 120k apps, Apple announcements, price drop on 3rd Gen iPad, Facebook's paid-for post promotion mechanism and nonymous threatening Zynga.

It's an episode jam-packed with news this week as Brett Haggard gets together with Sam Beckbessinger and David Greenway to discuss Google's new devices, the launch of Windows 8, some places Apple is getting a hard time from the market, and whole bunch of new gadgets, like Samsung's Note 2, Galaxy Camera and Ativ S Windows 8 phone, as well as Motorola's HC1 Wearable computer.

It's all about speed on this episode as Brett Haggard, Ben Kelly and Arthur Goldstuck discuss Felix Baumgartner's stratospheric skydive, the launch of LTE in South Africa, rumours of a new 13-inch Retina display Macbook Pro being launched in a week or two's time and much, much more.

Brett Haggard, Andy Hadfield and David Greenway talk a mix of interesting topics in this week's episode. From space to the death of an icon, how geek gamers get down, what (as always) is going down in the smartphone and tablet space, and how to tune (and learn to play) your new Fender Stratocaster - it's all here.

What happens when you pair two of South Africa's top telecoms commentators with a host who talks too much? Well, you get a pretty mobile, telecoms and tech-heavy episode of the ZA Tech Show. Jan Vermeulen, Steven Ambrose and Brett Haggard talk Google Nexus 7, Apple Maps, Blackberry 10, LTE and more...

All our guests managed to find their way to the studio this week despite upgrading to iOS 6. Join Ben Kelly, Dominic White, Sam Beckbessinger and Simon Dingle for a discussion on iOS 6 and the Maps debacle, Microsoft's new love for HTC, digital agnosticism, mobile security, MoTribe's acquisition by Mxit, and more...

Nafisa Akabor, Andy Hadfield and Craig Wilson join Brett Haggard this week to discuss iPhone 5, the new iPod Touch and iOS 6, Intel's Haswell Processor details from IDF, Samsung NX Series smart cameras, The next level of filters on social networks, Microsoft Surface pricing, DragonAge 3, Samsung's Galaxy S4 announcement, and Shazam - now with support for TV shows.

Gadgetophiles David Greenway and Steven Ambrose join Sam Beckbessinger in studio this week to discuss the new Kindles and how Amazon owns the Internet, BlackBerry's new super-cheap data plans, the very luminous new Lumia, the bizarre Samsung Galaxy Android point-and-shoot camera, whether the Samsung-Apple lawsuit means anything for consumers, what we think about Simfy, the new Galaxy Note, a single dose malaria cure coming out of UCT, scientists discovering Tatooine and more...

We're drinking beer and using stage microphones on the show again this week as Ben Kelly, Brett Haggard and Guy Taylor discuss Amazon's new Kindles, leaks of Nokia's coming smartphones, Windows 8, hacking Android and more...

We welcome Jan Vermeulen to the show this week, making his debut alongside regulars Arthur Goldstuck, Dave Greenway and Simon Dingle. We discuss World Wide Worx latest research findings specific to mobile, what makes a smartphone smart? The fake Twitter follower storm in a very small teacup, streaming music service Simfy launching in SA and the prospects for other streaming media services reaching our shores.