Global Geek News Podcast #58
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Global Geek News #58
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Stories:
- Amazon terminates Colorado based associates over new taxes
- Music biz hopes to stop piracy by tempting ISPs with millions
- Ubisoft’s DRM servers go down, only pirates can play games
- Sony’s great new idea: Game demos that are less fun over time
- Study links violent video games to violent thoughts
- Microsoft talks Windows Phone 7 Series: XNA, Silverlight and no backwards compatibility
- How big were the Winter Olympics online?
- Internet Explorer 8 still not playing well with over 2,000 popular sites
- Google Chrome gains as IE and Firefox lose
- 27% of e-reader owners wish they had waited for the iPad
- Notebooks, iPad like tablets to be 70% of PCs by 2012
Tips of the Week:
- 6 Critical Wordpress plugins you should have installed
- Save water damaged books, docs, photos by putting them in the freezer
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Host: Jeremy Bray & Wesley Faulkner
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Global Geek News Podcast #55
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Global Geek News #55
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Stories:
- Google looks to launch smartphones with real time translation
- Microsoft outpaces Apple in customer satisfaction
- Microsoft killing Xbox Live for the original Xbox
- Game devs migrating to the iPhone, away from the Wii
- Comcast rebrands itself as Xfinity
- Publishers continue fighting Amazon over e-book prices
- University finds free, online classes don’t hurt enrollment
- Italy prepares to hold YouTube, others liable for uploads
- Pirate movie privacy case set for the Supreme Court
- FBI calls for 2 year retention of ISP data
- US gives Chinese man 2.5 years over fake Cisco kit
Tips of the Week:
- 5 Best podcast managers
- Don’t buy Microsoft Office until at least March 5th
- Extensions broke your browser? How to enter “safe mode” in Chrome
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Global Geek News Podcast #53
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Global Geek News #53
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Stories:
- E-reader owners buy more books
- New York Times will start charging for online news in 2011
- Microsoft asks users to dump IE6, XP because of security problems
- Microsoft merges Zune Software and Xbox teams
- Microsoft may drop points system from Xbox, Zune
- Study: Gamers have bigger brains, better learners
- Kids less happy as they are more plugged in to music/tv/web?
- Larry and Sergey plan to give up control of Google
- Judge cuts P2P lawsuit damages by 97%
- Court: WHOIS privacy is illegal for spammers
- Hulu considering $5/mo charge for older episodes
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Host: Jeremy Bray & Wesley Faulkner
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Global Geek News Podcast #52
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Global Geek News #52
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Stories:
- Judge: RealNetworks caused its own legal problems
- Politicians worldwide start asking questions about ACTA
- Prove piracy losses says digital economy bill
- BREIN shuts down 393 torrent sites, nobody notices
- Microsoft patents DRM’d torrents
- Site’s terms of service still enforceable even if users don’t read them
- Court unfriendly to the FCC’s internet slap at Comcast
- New scanners break child porn laws
- Judge: Subway system can’t ban violent video game ads
- Netflix coming to the Nintendo Wii
- DirecTV launching 3 dedicated 3D channels this year
- State of the vlogosphere
- Android demand up 250%, iPhone down
- Why Microsoft killed upgrade versions for Office 2010
Tips of the Week:
- Vacuum-seal your electronics for temporary protection
- Get free access to pay-walled content with a simple Google hack
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Global Geek News Podcast #51
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Global Geek News #51
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Stories:
- Seesmic acquires Ping.fm
- Avatar makes $1 billion in 17 days
- 2016 bug hits text messages, payment processing
- IE loses more marketshare as Chrome passes Safari
- Middle aged people unimpressed with modern technology
- Steve Jobs declared Person of the Decade
- The tyranny of government and our duty of confidentiality as bloggers
- China arrests thousands in internet porn crackdown
- Fugitive tracked down through WoW, arrested
- EA closing multiplayer servers for 20 games
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Global Geek News Podcast #49
Here are the shownotes for episode #49 for the Global Geek News Podcast.
Global Geek News #49
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Stories:
- DirecTV sued by Washington State
- Netflix sued for privacy invasion
- The fourth most used search term by toddlers this year? Porn!
- Installing Linux will void your warranty
- Microsoft seeks patent on shaming fat gamers
- Microsoft: Our Windows 7 call center isn’t so busy
- The iPhone overtakes Windows Mobile in the US in October
- Texting more popular than calling in the US
- Legislator wants cancer warnings on cell phones
- Supreme Court takes texting privacy case
- Twitter may be profitable
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Host: Jeremy Bray & Wesley Faulkner
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