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    It’s podcast time!

    On South Africa’s best weekly technology podcast, your hosts Duncan McLeod and Regardt van der Berg chat about Microsoft’s big devices keynote — looking at the new Surface Pro and Surface Book, as well as the new Lumia smartphones.

    Also this week, they discuss the Apple Watch and iPhone 6s and 6s Plus South African pricing and availability; Afrihost cutting its digital subscriber line users across to a new network; and Seacom going direct to corporate South Africa.

    Tune in to find out who we name as our winner and loser of the week.

    Regardt’s pick this week is Pluto.tv, while Duncan has chosen FanCam’s Panasonic Rio Cam gigapixel photo of Rio de Janeiro.

    Stream or download the show via our partner iono.fm:

    The TalkCentral RSS feed is available via iono.fm. Use it to subscribe to the show in your favourite reader. We’d love your feedback on the show — please use the comments box below this article. — (c) 2015 NewsCentral Media



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