ZA Tech Show

Brett Haggard is in the director's chair this week as Ben Kelly, Steven Ambrose and Sam Beckbessinger discuss Telkom's R450-million slap on the wrist, the Ouya video game console funded by Kickstarter, innovation coming out of the gaming industry in general, Steam in particular, Motorola laying off a chunk of its workforce, Google buying Frommers and the awesomeness of traveling with mobile, Mat Honan's personal hacking nightmare, Google penalizing search results based on takedown notices and more...

Sam Beckbessinger, Andy Hadfield and Brett Haggard initiate Guy Taylor into ZA Tech Show paneldom this week, discussing the future of RIM and the new Blackberry 10 Alpha Device, some Microsoft news, the battle raging in the PFM space, general geeky comic book and movie goodness... and much, much more.

Sam Beckbessinger takes the helm this week with Dominic White and Craig Wilson to discuss tech at the Olympics, security goodness coming out of Black Hat 2012, the DTT switch-on delay, Telkom's increasingly dismal share price, the new World Wide Worx Mobility study, cellphone etiquette and controlling gadget addiction, the best TV deals on the market and Mountain Lion.

Our geeks battle it out in a war of the smartphone keyboards on this week's episode, in-between a discussion of the latest tech news with Arthur Goldstuck, Ben Kelly and Simon Dingle, including BlackBerry - Simon spoke to their new head of marketing last week, Jelly Bean and the war between Apple and Google, Apple's new MacBook Pro with Retina Display tested, iOS 6 and new iPhone predictions, Marissa Mayer taking the helm at Yahoo! and Windows 8 on a tablet in studio.

With no set agenda, Andy Hadfield, Dave Greenway and Brett Haggard get stuck into some tech-rambling and discuss the launch of Andy's Realtime Wine (and general startup insights), the doubling of Dropbox's storage space (and some rad tweaks for Mac OS X iPhoto and iTunes), why you shouldn't buy the Macbook Pro R, a whole bunch of smartphone news and the launch of Amazing Alex from Rovio.

We've got a packed panel this week with Ben Kelly, Brett Haggard, Sam Beckbessinger and Simon Dingle discussing Apple blocking Galaxy Nexus sales and the craziness of patents, Android updates and fragmentation, Pieter Uys stepping down at Vodacom, iPhone coming to Cell C, Vodacom and Cell C's new contract plans, Big iPod or small iPad coming? and Windows 8 launching in October.

Not one, but two Ambroses (Steven and Brendan) join David Greenway and Sam Beckbessinger to discuss Microsoft TechEd, why Windows 8 may change everything, hot new tablets (the Surface, the Nexus 7 and the Slate), the Android Jelly Bean release and the awesomeness of Google Now, things looking again (again) for RIM, what Nokia might do if the Windows experiment fails, why only geeks would use Google Glass, #Streamgate, the future of Internet radio and more...

This week Brettski's back in the driver's seat with Steven Ambrose and Benedict Kelly struggling to get an opinion in on the new macs, Windows 8, The upcoming cellular price wars, who online storage is changing our lives and what's wrong with on-demand video in South Africa.

With live-blogs firing and wine at the ready, Andy Hadfield, Dave Greenway and Simon Dingle form your crew this week, discussing Apple's WWDC 2012 announcements, as they happen, the Samsung Galaxy S3 vs. HTC's One X, Google's new Map additions and Apple's spy-planes, and Android hitting over 900000 daily activations.

Things get a bit silly in studio this week with Craig Wilson, Sam Beckbessinger and Simon Dingle discussing faster ADSL and cheaper prepaid cellular, small business connectivity, Pastel's new PFM, the open data movement, Gust and the rise of geo-fencing, Windows 8 and Metro, and the shift to streaming media.

In this week's episode of everyone's favorite netcast Steven Ambrose, Nic Callegari and Simon Dingle talk their way through the state of the tech industry, Apple TV and industries ripe for disruption, SpaceX, the SKA and space, Prometheus, the price of panels, Sony's tough stab at a post-Ericsson mobile play, the Samsung Galaxy S3 hitting local shores, car tech, SSD drives and new Macs.

We try to avoid football discussions at all costs this week and stick to matters of technology. Arthur Goldstuck, Brett Haggard, Sam Beckbessinger and Simon Dingle are in the house to discuss Diablo III: hacked and unavailable, cellular price wars in SA, Facebook's IPO letdown, HTC in Africa, SpaceX's failed launch, mobile in developing markets, the next leap in personal computing, and more.

Ben Kelly and Dave Greenway join Brett Haggard in studio this week to discuss Mango in-flight WiFi, FNB GeoPay, the long-awaited launch of Diablo 3, the WACS cable system going live, Cell C price cuts, Apple dropping the 4G tag on iPad in some regions, and the first 802.11ac routers shipping.

There's a lot to poke sticks at on this week's ZA Tech Show as Arthur Goldstuck, Brett Haggard, Nic Callegari and Simon Dingle discuss the prospects for BlackBerry 10 OS, smartphone ecosystem lock-in, iTunes and other content services launching in South Africa, how stupid the FPB is, banning mobile phones in SA schools, Samsung's Galaxy S3 reveal, Huawei's new Android tablet, approved by Google, and FNB GeoPay.

This week your panel contains the technical prowess of Dave Greenway, analytical mastery of Steven Ambrose and Simon Dingle, who's OK. We suppose. They discuss new iPad pricing and launch in South Africa, HTC's new Android powerhouses, a sneak at Samsung's next Galaxy smartphone, Intel's Ivy Bridge reveal, new Macs on the way, Adobe CS 6 and Adobe Cloud, the shift from pro at Apple, Windows 8 editions, uncapped ADSL data price reductions, and Diablo's 15 May launch.