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When Apple announced the iPad earlier this year, some commentators declared that it could signal the demise of Amazon.com’s Kindle e-reader. Unlike the Kindle, which could do only one thing well — display pages from books — the iPad was a multifunction device, allowing people to browse the Web, check their e-mail, read magazines, watch movies, listen to music and run a universe of applications.

Simon Dingle is out this week, so Jon Tullett hosts episode 83 of SA’s most popular technology podcast. He is joined in the studio by Duncan McLeod, Brett Haggard and Toby Shapshak. They discuss, among other things, First National Bank’s Internet banking outage