Here are the shownotes for episode #58 for the Global Geek News Podcast.
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

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• 6 Critical Wordpress plugins you should have installed
• Save water damaged books, docs, photos by putting them in the freezer

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Here are the shownotes for episode #57 for the Global Geek News Podcast.
Global Geek News #57
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Stories:

• 1/3 of Americans don't use fast internet
• Survey:  More Americans get news from the internet than newspapers or radio
• EU tells Google to warn cities before sending in the Street View cameras
• Open wi-fi outlawed by Digital Economy bill in UK
• US Government ending its hands off the internet stance
• EU to block ACTA disconnect provisions
• US lawmakers set sights on P2P programs
• The awful anti-piracy system that will probably work
• P2P use down, but 24m fewer people bought music in 2009 compared to 2007
• Apple uncovers child workers in its plants
• Glitch makes older Playstation 3 units inoperable

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• Automatically turn off your speakers when you lock your PC
• How to get traffic to your blog
• 5 Simple ways to find your passion and take your blog from zero to hero

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Here are the shownotes for episode #56 for the Global Geek News Podcast.
Global Geek News #56
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Stories:

• Windows Phone 7 official, lacks flash and multitasking
• France votes Tuesday on net censorship
• NBC plots crackdown on Olympic pirates
• Australian judge rules facts cannot be copyrighted
• Racist content on US server 'within UK jurisdiction'
• Record 13 year sentence for hacker
• Apple may use iPad to test lower priced TV shows
• Congress wants and e-book reader for low-income kids
• Internet 'rewires our brains' and makes teenagers more vulnerable to mental illness
• Google experiments with becoming a fiber ISP
• Google launches Buzz

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• 10 Best ways to use your PC while you are at work or asleep
• 9 More ways to promote your blog offline

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Here are the shownotes for episode #55 for the Global Geek News Podcast.
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

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• 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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• Microsoft Vista Speech Recognition Tested - Perl Scripting

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Here are the shownotes for episode #54 for the Global Geek News Podcast.
Global Geek News #54
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Stories:

• Bans on phones and texting while driving shown ineffective
• 70% of employers have rejected applicants over online information
• 3 Strikes coming to the US via the back door?
• RIAA to appeal Thomas ruling
• Microsoft sues prominent bittorrent tracker for $43 million
• Microsoft sued over Xbox Live points
• IFPI loses deep-linking case against Baidu
• CompTIA backs down, old certs still good for life
• War of words between Apple and Adobe heats up
• Amazon caves to Macmillans eBook pricing demands

Tips of the Week:

• 64 things every geek should know
• How to write a viral blog post: 7 real examples
• Reminder:  Windows 7 RC shutdowns begin in a month

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Here are the shownotes for episode #53 for the Global Geek News Podcast.
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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• 10 blog topics that anyone can use
• 18 blog tips that will help you succeed in 2010

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Greetings Listeners!

I regret to inform you guys that there will be no Global Geek News Podcast this week.  Due to multiple issues in my personal life, I don't expect to have time to record a show this week.  Wesley is also going though some personal issues that he has talked about on his blog and he is unable to do the show this week as well.  I may or my not blog everything that is going on in my personal life but I do tend to Twitter a lot of it for those that are interested.  I can't speak for Wesley, but I hope to be back doing our regularly scheduled shows next week even if Wesley still needs more time to take care of his personal life.  My apologies to everybody who was looking forward to a show this week but unfortunately, some things just can't be avoided.  Have a great week and we will see you guys on next weeks show.  For more news and updates, follow Global Geek News on Twitter and check out the Global Geek News Blog.

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Here are the shownotes for episode #52 for the Global Geek News Podcast.
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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Here are the shownotes for episode #51 for the Global Geek News Podcast.
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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• Top 10 mindhacks for making your resolutions stick
• Four stages of growing a blog

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Here are the shownotes for episode #50 for the Global Geek News Podcast.
Global Geek News #50
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Stories:

• RIAA's three-strikes rule just a "scarecrow?"
• Piracy surcharge set to force 40,000 households offline
• Court:  Cellphone searches require a warrant
• Girl gamers geekier than guys
• Barnes & Nobel expects to ship 60,000 Nooks in 2010
• Kindle the most gifted item in Amazon history, e-books outsell physical books on Christmas day
• nVidia's DirectX 11 cards pushed back to at least March
• AT&T says NYC can't handle iPhones, stops selling them
• Microsoft barred from selling Word, workaround in the works
• New flying rules post crotch bomber

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• Search multiple torrent sites from your desktop
• How to improve your blog and social media strategy
• Access Facebook updates from a feed reader

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Guest:  Maya Grinberg

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