Summary: The whole gang is back together for Episode 35. We discuss tech stocks plummeting and the prospect of buying into the market. Yet. Telkom or MTN? Which stocks should you be looking at - or is this really not the time to be buying? There is also the coming barrage of acquisitions. Potentially. Will Sun be bought? Will Microsoft buy RIM? What will happen to Facebook and Twitter in the current market? Microsoft has a big announcement coming this week. We speculate about what this announcement, concerning a cloud operating system, could be. We also talk about cloud computing in general, Apple's reaction to Microsoft's recent (and very expensive) ad campaign, and wonder if Microsoft will stop producing Office for Mac? Mail and PIM applications and services are also discussed, along with an urgent security patch for Windows, Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex being in final testing and being launched at the end of this month. Suggestions for what Linux needs... and what it doesn't. We look at the netbook space, and the smartphone market's impact on it, more on the iTunes App Store and Apple's curious exclusion of content from the South African store, mobile application distribution, the source code for Android being released as open source. Watch out for versions coming for just about every phone out there... and with Symbian and Android being open source, what will the future hold for Windows Mobile? Neotel's new voice tariffs and other offerings on the way. Check out www.zatechshow.co.za
