ZA Tech Show

We're down to two this week with Sam Beckbessinger and Simon Dingle holding down the fort. Fortunately they don't need any help shooting their mouths off about Vodacom's BlackBerry Internet Service cap, emerging Windows 8 goodness (and badness), user interfaces, Amazon tablet rumours mounting, the frenetic pace of the gaming industry, digital publishing, and more...

Is there still hope for BlackBerry? Can Lenovo make a dent in the tablet market? We don't know the answers to these questions, but are willing to speculate wildly. This week Andy Hadfield, Simon Dingle and Steven Ambrose discuss the Lenovo K1 tablet, Samsung pulling the Tab 7.7 from its stand at IFA, the Amazon tablet, app stores and operators, iOS 5, the launch of Telkom Business Mobile, Evernote acquiring Skitch, Google shutting down old projects, and more...

In this episode you'll hear the voices of casual wine aficionado Andy Hadfield and international man of mystery Stafford Masie who join Simon Dingle to discuss HP's new direction, Amazon's rise as an ecosystem player, the future role of network operators, the information revolution, Motorola's XOOM and Atrix, news from Gamescom, kids and computing, the Twitter "walkout", 'Retweet' and 'sexting' entering the dictionary, and much more...

Joining us on the show this week is Samantha Beckbessinger, Toby Shapshak and Simon Dingle. We discuss BlackBerry's new device line-up, HP WebOS devices, digital publishing and role of print, ADSL woes in SA, Cory Doctorow's Galaxy Tab bashing, and much more...

This week our studio is graced with foremost technology analysts and wines that could fuel heavy machinery. Andy Hadfield, Brett Haggard, Steven Ambrose and Simon Dingle discuss Twitter users halting a suicide in SA, Diablo 3 enabling real-world purchasing of virtual items, 3D phone screens and how much we don't need them, the survivalist cult of PC gaming, Amazon halting Android app sales because it's being sued by Apple, the "badgeification" of Google News, and much more...

Your crew this week consists of Ben Kelly, Brett Haggard and Simon Dingle. With lots of shiny new things to play with, we discuss the launch of Apple OS X Lion, DStv BoxOffice bringing on-demand movies to SA pay-tv subscribers, the FNB smartphone app, fake Apple stores in China, Cell C and Vodacom's latest counter-offers in the mobile broadband war, RIM (BlackBerry) cutting jobs and switching to QNX, and much more...

Our studio is a bit of a lab this week, but we don't want to talk about it. Sam Beckbessenger, Toby Shapshak and Simon Dingle are your panel this week. We discuss the launch of DStv BoxOffice, Spotify launching in the US, Amazon tablet rumours, the new music industry, Toshiba and glasses-less 3D, FNB's mobile announcement, Microsoft's prospects, Apple Bluetooth in the Apple TV 2, and much more...

Your panelists this week are Andy Hadfield, Brett Haggard and Simon Dingle. With classy wine in-hand, for a change, we discuss Google+ and Facebook blocking contact exports, Facebook video chat with Skype, preparing for OSX Lion, Android tablets, Comscore's market update for Q2 smartphone sales, Nokia 2.0, Lenovo, and much more...

Ben Kelly, Brett Haggard, Sam Beckbessinger and Simon Dingle warm themselves with some fiery tech talk on a freezing Monday night. We talk the great Vodabomb of 2011, the RICA cut-off in South Africa and its fallout, the launch of Google+, Zynga preparing its IPO, Myspace sold to Justin Timberlake, Huawei's S7 7" Android tablet, Lenovo's new marketing push, Battery technology, Lytro photography, and much more...

Trying hard to focus on the serious issues facing technology this week instead of talking about foreign love interestes and wine, Andy Hadfield, Stafford Masie and Simon Dingle discuss LulzSec and its fallout, 8ta's new mobile broadband bundles, mobile content strategies, the new Ster-Kinekor website's #fail, Windows Phone, Nokia's N9, and much more...

Covering a surprising amount of ground given the circumstances, involving rum, Brett Haggard, Nic Callegari, Simon Dingle and Toby Shapshak discuss Telkom’s 8ta expanding its network, ADSL full of fail in South Africa, the Sega hack, Duke Nukem Forever, the Kinect SDK, a new, lighter PS3, IBM’s centennial, Playbook launching in SA. Kinda. And much more...

It’s all about gaming and mobile this week as Samantha Beckbessinger, Steven Ambrose and Simon Dingle discuss Apple’s iCloud announcement, Samsung’s Galaxy S2 and other new Android competitors, Nintendo’s Wii U and console gaming, Duke Nukem Forever, Tomb Raider 2012 announced at E3, Facebook’s controversial facial recognition tech, the RICA deadline approaching, Telkom’s profit slump and long line of kak decisions, and much more...

With live blogs rolling in the background Ben Kelly, Duncan McLeod and Simon Dingle discuss Microsoft’s XBox announcements at E3, Android tablets and how Honeycomb stacks up against iOS, Apple’s Lion, iOS 5 and iCloud announcements, console gaming, Microsoft Windows 8 and rumours of an nVidia acquisition, Google’s Chromebooks and prospects in personal computing, the City of Tshwane’s initiatives and fibre rollout in SA, Oracle’s OpenOffice.org decision and general take on open source, and much more...

Technology features alongside football, wine and potjiekos in this episode of the ZA Tech Show. Andy Hadfield, Arthur Goldstuck, Brett Haggard and Simon Dingle discuss Windows Phone 7 ’Mango’, the cool factor for smartphones, BlackBerry’s fortunes and research from World Wide Worx, Android tablets, the Samsung Galaxy S2, Amazon planning a tablet? and much more...

Ben the USB turntable wizard returns to the show this week with Brett Haggard, Nic Callegari and Simon Dingle. We discuss the rapture not happening, the growing tablet market and HTC’s Flyer, cloud storage, Google’s Music beta, ADSL connectivity, YouTube’s awesomeness, Android Marketplace, now with paid apps for Africa, and much more...