28Apr/090
Global Geek News Podcast #22
Here are the shownotes for episode #22 for the Global Geek News Podcast.
Global Geek News #22
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- Study finds pirates buy 10x more music online than non-pirates
- $62,000 movie download a result of poor travel planning
- Gamefly: USPS handles DVD rentals with kid gloves, ignores us
- Sony sued for cheating man out of rumble patents
- Facebook users get worse grades in college
- BYU Professor: Universities will be irrelevant by 2020
- Apple lays off 1600 employees
- Yahoo quietly pulls the plug on Geocities
- Journalism Online: Time to start paying for online news
Hosts: Jeremy Bray and Wesley Faulkner
24Apr/090
Global Geek News Podcast #21
Here are the shownotes for episode #21 for the Global Geek News Podcast.
Global Geek News #21
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- 83% of businesses won’t deploy Windows 7 next year
- Twitter worm attacks continue
- Skype founders looking to buy Skype back from Ebay
- CompUSA comes back from the dead with 30 new stores
- Systemax buys Circuit City’s brand and domain name
- Sony in talks to offer free, full-length movies on YouTube
- France slaps down proposed anti-piracy bill
- Court: Your Myspace page isn’t private
- Barnes & Noble may jump into the e-reader market
- 72% of guys prefer gaming to their girlfriend
Hosts: Jeremy Bray and Wesley Faulkner
13Apr/090
Global Geek News Podcast #20
Here are the shownotes for episode #20 for the Global Geek News Podcast.
Global Geek News #20
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- Dice.com shows a 45% drop in tech jobs
- Blockbuster is on its deathbed
- Circuit City looks to rise again
- Time Warner Cable says it singled out Austin’s geeks
- Apple and Stanford offering free iPhone development classes on iTunes
- Apple’s legal showdown over multitouch begins
- FCC asked to investigate AT&T for Skype iPhone restrictions
- Radiohead to testify against the RIAA
- Microsoft boasts that 96% of netbooks run Windows
Hosts: Jeremy Bray and Wesley Faulkner
4Apr/090
Global Geek News Podcast #19
Here are the shownotes for episode #19 for the Global Geek News Podcast.
Global Geek News #19
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- IBM to reportedly buy Sun for $7 billion
- Phoenix police raid home of critical blogger
- Texas bans Vista from government computers
- Study: Facebook and YouTube at work makes for better employees
- Virtual gaming leagues fold, forcing gamers to find real jobs
- Sony Drops the price of the Playstation 2
- Time Warner monthly data caps spread beyond Texas
- ABC/Disney looking to join Hulu?
- 84% of people would prefer to have more blog readers than Twitter followers
- Netflix upping Blu-ray fees
- AT&T tweaks wireless terms of service to forbid video streaming, filesharing and data tethering
Hosts: Jeremy Bray and Wesley Faulkner
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