This week Bretts in San Francisco and joins us via Skype. Under discussion: The future of SSD and what it enables. Intel has some compelling offerings on the way. Gartner Symposium 2008 - Simon and Ben look at this years event. Duncan has the Multichoice HD PVR and gives his impressions. Eyeballs mobile advertising platform. Instant messaging and convergence. Cell Cs improved market performance. Intels Nehalem and ....

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The Interview Download audio file (Tabitha Tongoi interview complete.mp3) Brief Introduction I have known Tabitha, her family and her sister, Julie Tongoi, who I interviewed a while back, for years and years and years. So, it is with much pleasure that I learned about her being accepted to the African Leadership Academy and also share this interview with you. Let me encourage you: let us record excellence or ....

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Howzit Foreign currency mid-rates updated... -o00o- ZNU 133 is released this morning. In this episode, I look at Clem Tholett's song "Another Hitler" and discuss how that song of thirty years ago foretold much of what we see happening in Zimbabwe today. I also look at how Mbeki has allowed ZANU PF to stack the deck in their favour by allowing the Joint Operations ....

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Howzit Foreign currency mid-rates updated. -o00o- Monday is podcast day. ZNU 131 is available to play using either the player below or in the multiplayers in the right hand sidebar. In this programme I look at the hypocrisy of the current power sharing talks in South Africa. And the obvious failure of the three parties to live up to the agreement which they ....

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Simon has lost his brain this week and Duncans attention span is missing too. Nevertheless, we attempt to compose ourselves and discuss: Multichoice launching its DSTV HD service with PVR pricing and full details. Nokias new E-series business smartphones. MTNs 7.1 billion rand investments, including fibre roll-out. A former Vodacom executive being accused of perjury. Papi Molotsanes small fortune. The debates at this years Internetix conference. Jake ....

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Simon has lost his brain this week and Duncans attention span is missing too. Nevertheless, we attempt to compose ourselves and discuss: Multichoice launching its DSTV HD service with PVR pricing and full details. Nokias new E-series business smartphones. MTNs 7.1 billion rand investments, including fibre roll-out. A former Vodacom executive being accused of perjury. Papi Molotsanes small fortune. The debates at this years Internetix conference. Jake ....

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HowzitForeign currency mid-rates updated...-o00o-ZNU 130 is released this morning.In this programme, I look at the remarks by Koffi Annan that the Zimbabwean crisis has "shamed Africa", whilst I have another look at the failed opportunity of the free world to institute sanctions on Zimbabwe. I also look at how the crisis in Zimbabwe affects not only those inside the country, but Zimbabweans like myself, resident outside the country. And ....

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Creative Commons is a term you've probably heard, but like me, might have been a little fuzzy around the edges about. The organisation, and the licenses they've produced, actually have applications that can be especially useful to anyone operating in the online space. Not being experts ourselves, we thought it would be useful to chat to someone who is. It's for this reason that I set up an interview ....

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This week the ZA Tech Show crew is joined by Google South Africas country manager, Stafford Masie. We discuss: Googles mobile drive for SA. Google Maps and the development of services for the local market. Youtube. Google Apps. Local bandwidth costs and performance in terms of delivering services. Social networking, its impact on business, and privacy online. Google potentially surrendering Youtube logs to Viacom. IS Labs incubating ....

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