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In an email I received this week, I was directed to a story about a New Mexico school trying to connect to its students by putting classroom material in podcast from and letting them listen to it on Zunes that the students are given.
The students of Fort Sumner High School have been given Microsoft [...]

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For those that haven’t heard, the number of computers in use around the world has hit 1 Billion!  Im not sure if I am more suprised that we have hit this mark or that we haven’t hit this mark until now.
According to this story, the primary reason for hitting this number now and the [...]

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I have some rather suprising news for you today.  I have been banned from Digg.com!  For those who don’t know what happend, I will catch you up to speed before I post all correspondence that I had with Digg support.
Last week I made a wrote one of my insightful blog posts about Cisco’s predictions [...]

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For those of your who are looking forward to watching the 2008 Olympics but would like to watch the events online at a time that is convenient for you, you might be in luck!  If you are running Vista and have Silverlight, thanks to a partnership with NBC and Wavexpress, you will be able [...]

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I just thought I would post to make everybody aware of the new changes in out legal section.  I have adopted new Terms of Service which I recommend reading.  They can be found by clicking on the Legal tab at the top of this page.
The Global Geek News podcast will be coming back very [...]

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UPDATE!  This is the correct link for Firefox 3 Final release!

It seems that Mozilla is unable to handle all the traffic from Firefox 3 Download Day so I have the direct link to the file for those who want to download Firefox 3 but don’t want to wait all day to access the site.  [...]

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If you are like me and still can’t get your hands on a Wii, this story probably won’t mean much to you, but if you are a lover of homebrew on your gaming systems, this story is for you.
Yesterday, Nintendo released a new update for the Wii (v3.3) which does two major things.  One, [...]

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This only comes as a shock to people living under a rock, but according to Cisco, internet traffic is going to increase! Their estimates show that by the year 2012, global internet traffic will reach half a zetabyte! For those who aren’t geeky enough to know your bytes, a zetabyte is 1 [...]

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Although I don’t say it much, I appreciate when readers and listeners send me stuff to talk about on the blog and podcast. This is one such post. Fiona King sent me a link to a post called “25 Twitter Tips for College Students.” While I will say that some of [...]

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In another story of consumers getting screwed, which seems to be a theme on this blog, Verizon has decided to block access to the entire alt.* USENET directory because they are too lazy to enforce their own service agreements.  Reading that link will get you up to speed with all the details, but the [...]

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