Summary: This week Alastair Otter from Tectonic drops by and lends us his insights into the Linux environment. Duncan spoke to Dark Fibre Africa and gives us the low-down on capacity, clients and why your car's rims are being destroyed in the name of bandwidth. MTN is taking on Telkom in the consumer broadband space with the launch of an HSPA router. Google partnering with O3B to bring more satellite bandwidth to South Africa. Will it amount to anything? Mark Shuttleworth is ploughing resources into changing desktop environments on Linux. Simon spoke to the Google project manager of Chrome and provides more information on where Google is going in the browser space. We discuss Internet Explorer 8, Chrome, Microsoft Silverlight, Flash and other technologies impacting on your experience of the Web. The second Microsoft advertisement featuring Bill Gates and Jerry Seinfeld. Apple's September announcements including new iPods and iTunes 8 with the Genius feature. Much anticipated game Spore has been released, but tight DRM is harming online sentiment. Piracy as a distribution model; steal This Movie and other players are investigating the space. Lenovo and Acer are pulling back on their offerings of laptops with Linux; what do Linux users want from portables and modern distributions? And more... Check out www.zatechshow.co.za
