Summary: A somber group of geeks gather this week to talk about the Rand-Dollar exchange rate and what it means for prices of technology in South Africa. We also discuss Vodafone's purchase of Telkom's share in Vodacom in the face of the current economic crisis, Apple's new range of Macbook portables that will arrive locally at massive prices, new graphics technology and how the ATI and Nvidias of the world are taking things to the next level, Lenovo's new Thinkpad models with extended battery-life, OpenOffice.org 3 and the vast improvements it introduces to everyone's favourite free office suite, the power of Outlook, IBM Lotus and how the brand has progressed, the iPhone App Store and how Android's approach will stack up, along with mobile device management for corporates, and some of Duncan and Brett's favourite applications on the iPhone. We also look at Games and other applications excluded from the South African iPhone App store, Zune availability and how Microsoft has addressed the media player market, the new iPod Nano's shake function, and what we think of the new range, having had some time to play with them. Finally, we pay tribute to the awesomeness of Gmail and its mobile site and discuss Barack Obama's online campaign and how it has bolstered his success and how Pandora, Last.fm and other services that use the Music Genome Project are being reinvented on the iPhone. Check out www.zatechshow.co.za
