The latest episode of the ZA Tech Show is now available for download or streaming. I was in Cape Town for the recording of this episode, along with Jon Tullett from TechTarget and Gartner analyst Will Hahn for the 2009 Gartner Symposium. We used Skype and Audio Hijack Pro to record the episode and bring in Brett Haggard, who was in Durban for Microsoft TechEd, and Duncan McLeod who was at home in Johannesburg with his bulldogs. (more…)

Episode 57 of the ZA Tech Show is available early for Easter. I’m leaving for Hong Kong today and wanted to get it up before I left. So it’s not just the Easter love. Call it 50/50

In this episode we look at:

• Telecommunications in South Africa post Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri.
• Will South Africa’s electric car, the Joule, ever hit the road?
• The digital music price war.
• DRM, piracy and bandwidth dynamics.
• Telkom’s mobile offering and restructuring.
• 97% of all email is spam, according to Microsoft.
• The ups and downs of BlackBerry.
• ARM-based netbooks.
• The netbook conundrum.
• Wii production costs go down, but prices hold fast.

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Episode 21 of ZA Tech Show is now available for download and via RSS. This week Duncan was in Ghana and Skyped in. We discussed:

• Why Google didn’t do a doodle for Madiba’s birthday.
• The HP 2133 sub-notebook. Or ‘netbook’, if you will. Brett has one to play with.
• Nokia’s Music store launching in South Africa.
• The Apple versus Psystar court case.
• The WOW Glider court case.
• Nintendo’s Wii taking the lead in US console sales.
• Neotel launching its enterprise services.
• Apple blocking VoIP on the new 3G iPhone.
• Updates on the Viacom vs. Youtube case.
• BT rolling out fibre in the UK.

And more…
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This week’s episode of ZA Tech Show is live, in which we discuss:

• The 3G iPhone along with educated guesses as to when we will see it in SA, and at what price.
• The launch of Apple’s MobileMe service.
• The Ace Aspire One sub-notebook and Eee PC killer.
• Acer’s other market movements, including its launch of a gaming division.
• Desktop Linux.
• Red Hat’s patent achievements.
• Impi Linux, enterprise Linux and competition in the open source space.
• The launch of Firefox 3.
• Plurk.
• Adium X – now with Facebook Chat support.
• Updates on the Apple IMC grey-import saga and Apple’s seeming disregard for developing markets.
• The poo-flinging between Altech and IS.

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