First National Bank CEO Michael Jordaan unwittingly sparked a public debate on the future of newspapers recently. Writing in the bank’s weekly e-mail newsletter, he asked employees whether they’d be willing to help the company save more than R1m/ year — and spare the environment — by reading news online instead of having it subscribe to newspapers. Business Day editor Peter Bruce picked up on this communication and challenged Jordaan’s views in defence of his paper’s print income stream

Jon Tullett, Toby Shapshak, Brett Haggard and Simon Dingle are the crew this week. Among plenty of other things, they discuss the Intel Developer Forum, Microsoft’s Courier tablet device, Livescribe Pulse Smartpens, 3D video and the Blu-ray optical format