ZA Tech Show

Conversation takes its own course in this week's episode as Brett Haggard, Craig Wilson, Sam Beckbessinger and Simon Dingle end up discussing the new iPad launching in SA, Instagram being swallowed by Facebook, Skype and the perils of acquisition, Windows 8 and lowest-common-denominator computing, life automation, ultrabooks and a whole lot more...

Sam Beckbessinger is back at the reigns this week, joining Ben Kelly and David Greenway to discuss our favourite online April Fools' Day pranks, rumours about the SKA project and IBM's exascale computers, Telkom's FTTH trials, IPC cuts, Ashton Kutcher as Steve Jobs, the controversial Girls Around Me app, MTN in Iran, oddities of the Internet in China, what we've seen of the upcoming SimCity and more...

Arthur Goldstuck, Ben Kelly and Brett Haggard are your resident geeks this week, who discuss Allan Knott-Craig's Cell C aspirations for a 25% market share, spectrum running out in the USA, what regulators in SA should be doing, Neotel hitting 100000 consumer customers, Apple's NanoSim debacle, Windows 8 and Apple chinks in the armour, and more...

Your crew this week consists of Andy Hadfield, Brett Haggard and Dave Greenway who discuss Andy and Brett's experiences from SxSW, the Nike+ Fuelband, Apple's share buyout and dividend announcement, the new iPad, hardcore gaming - dead or happier than ever?

You might think that this here internet broadcast is about technology. And usually you'd be right. In this episode, however, Craig Wilson, Nic Callegari, Toby Shapshak and Simon Dingle do a terrible job of attempting to discuss Apple's new iPad sellout, Windows 8 looking good and redeeming old machines, Nokia tablet rumours, the anniversary of MIME, rumours of a new Xbox to come in 2013, Marvel's introduction of AR comics, the Canon EOS 5D MK III, and Instagram for Android announced at SxSW.

We welcome another newcomer to the show this week when Dave Greenway joins Jon Tullett, Simon Dingle and Steven Ambrose to talk through Steve's feedback from Mobile World Congress 2012, Google's dominance in mobile, battery issues and inductive possibilities, Windows 8 Consumer Preview, Diablo III beta going live, ICASA spectrum allocation, and much more.

We have more gadgets than panelists in the studio this week. Arthur Goldstuck, Ben Kelly, Nafisa Akabor and Simon Dingle unpack their backpacks and discuss news from the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Nokia's 41MP camera phone and its significance, BlackBerry's PlayBook 2.0, the launch and our initial impressions of the Sony PS Vita, the Standard Bank versus FNB Twitter spat, Arthur's 7" tablet roundup, and more...

A triumvirate of Craig Wilson, Stafford Masie and Simon Dingle form your panel in this week's high-quality episode of everyone's favourite podcast. Their words, not ours. Aside from a side-discussion involving steroid sport leagues we manage to discuss several technology topics, including the quantified self movement, broadband promises from politicians, PS Vita and the future of gaming, content blocks and licensing, the future of the future, hoverboards, Kickstarter, social identity curators, Samsung Galaxy Nexus launch and pricing, technology agnosticism, Apple's OSX Mountain Lion, and more...

It's a night of mayhem in the studio as Sam Beckbessinger, Brett Haggard, Andy Hadfield and Nic Calligari discuss MTN's weird new data bundles, new Twitter policies for Sky News and BBC journalists, declining standards of blogging and online journalism, iPad 3 speculation, Amazon opening physical stores, and more…

Nafisa Akabor makes her debut on this episode, joining Ben Kelly, Brett Haggard and Steven Ambrose to discuss Apple's iPhone business now being bigger than all of Microsoft, Apple TV Speculation, Windows Phone 8 with the same kernel as Windows 8, Google TV from 3.2 to 4.0, experiences with the Nokia Lumia 800, Skype going fully integrated with Windows 8 and Phone, BlackBerry OS 7.1 and Tablet OS 2 for the PlayBook, and more...

We test everything from Brett's time-keeping abilities to Ben's patience and the new Nokia Lumia smartphones in this episode of the ZA Tech Show. Join Ben Kelly, Brett Haggard, Sam Beckbessinger and Simon Dingle as we discuss Nokia's Lumia 800 launch, the furore over 22seven, Facebook IPO rumours, inside Google, the Megaupload bust and the end of piracy, and much more...

Your crew this week consists of Andy Hadfield, Brett Haggard and Simon Dingle who discuss Alan Knott-Craig taking up the reins at Cell C, Jeffrey Hedberg leaving Altech, BlackBerry's CEO shuffle, Microsoft's renaissance post Gates, CEO Twitter rockstars and social networking in 2012, Google Plus, Windows 8 and Metro updates, and much more...

We focus our conversation this week on what are likely to be the big areas of tech news in 2012. Simon Dingle is back from CES in Las Vegas, joined by Sam Beckbessinger, Craig Wilson and Ben Kelly to discuss the future of television and the hints provided at CES, an overview of the Consumer Electronics Show 2012, new tablets on the way, i'm Watch and i'm Core, the Google-Mocality debacle, online content, and much more...

With a lot of our crew at CES in Las Vegas, Samantha Beckbessinger and Nic Callegari man the ZA Tech Show fort this week. They discuss exciting news coming out of CES, whether there's any such thing as an ultrabook, new TVs running on Android and Ubuntu, the One Laptop Per Child Project's new tablet, online music sales finally beat out CD sales in 2011, DStv BoxOffice Online beta trial, Kodak about to file for bankruptcy, poor matric results in maths and what this means for SA as a tech hub, Vodacom gets a license to sell insurance, why Nic's switch to Android was a disaster, why 2012 is going to be a great entertainment year for geeks, and more...

In this, the third of our annual ZA Tech Show holiday specials, we take a look at the year ahead and make some predictions for 2012. Your holiday crew of Andy Hadfield, Ben Kelly, Brett Haggard and Simon Dingle are onboard for a run-through of some of what's to come...