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Brett Haggard

14th August 2013

Brett Haggard is joined by ‘The Techie Guy,’ Liron Segev and htxt.africa’s Dave Greenway this week for a discussion on (amongst a variety of other things):

Blackberry’s pending sell-off;
The Airport Extreme being held up at the SABS;
The new Haswell-powered New Macbook Air;
The launch of Uber locally;
The R799 Android Smartphone from Vodacom;
And in general news: Skype HD for 4th Gen iPads; Capitec copying FNB on twitter; Audi interactive manual; Bye bye MS points; ZTE launches Firefox OS and the North Korean closed-up Android phone.

Our technology picks of the week are:

Liron Segev picks the BMW i3 electric car coming in 2014
Dave Greenway picks ActiveNotifications (free) and Tasker (R39), both on the Google Play store;
Brettski picks IK Multimedia’s iRig Cast and both picks/picks-on OrigAudio’s Free Speaker Deal.

More info on the ZA Tech Show and other podcasts can be found at seed.tv

About Author

Brett Haggard

Brett is the founder of Hypertext. He's been covering the technology industry for so long, he's seen old technology be 'respun' as the next big thing one too many times. He started Hypertext in 2002 and quite frankly hasn't looked back (although he often longs for the days when a steady salary, sick days and leave were a given). Currently uses: 13-inch Macbook Air, iPhone 12 Mini, iPad 8.