Summary: Our special guest on episode 31 of the ZA Tech Show is Chris Ross, managing executive for sales at Vodacom, and the man responsible for bringing the iPhone to the South African market. Chris answers all of our questions surrounding the Jesus phone coming to South Africa before we move onto a discussion about the HTC Dream G1, the first phone to market that is based on Google's Android operating system. Minister of Communications, Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri was president for a day, thanks to the political turmoil in South Africa. And we survived, surprisingly. But Alec Erwin is gone, so perhaps we'll get through the next year with power for our gadgets. We then move back to technology proper with news of the Cisco website being hacked. Vox Telecom lost a lot of money this week, and a new service called E was launched. None of this impresses Jon, however - and we discuss his hate for... well... everything. Brett would switch to Windows for Digsby - which now supports LinkedIn. Hey, he said it. And some clever developers have put together Iron - a streamlined browser based on Chrome, that improves browser security and adds support for the new WebKit. We also touch on Internet Explorer 8. Brett told us that Vista only boots on a single processor, unless you tell it not too. This conversation presented the perfect point at which to end the show... Check out www.zatechshow.co.za
