Global Geek News Podcast #50
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
Tips of the Week:
- 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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Host: Jeremy Bray & Wesley Faulkner
Guest: Maya Grinberg
For more news, check out the Global Geek News Blog
Global Geek News Podcast #48
Here are the shownotes for episode #48 for the Global Geek News Podcast.
Global Geek News #48
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Stories:
- Report: Sony still losing money on every PS3 sold
- LCD price fixing investigation reaches $860 million in fines
- Mozilla exec urges users to ditch Google for Bing
- Microsoft invents price gouging the least influential
- Anti-piracy group wants to ban you from talking about Usenet
- Damned pirates: Hollywood sets $10 billion box office record
- Court says fair use may hold in some RIAA cases
- Record labels face $60 billion in damages for pirating artists
- Judges can’t “friend” lawyers in Florida
- Western Digital’s “Advanced Format” promises slight boost in usable space
- AT&T CEO wants iPhone users to limit data usage
Tips of the week:
- Windows 7 USB download tool lets you install Windows from a thumb drive
- Get a better deal from your ISP
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Host: Jeremy Bray & Wesley Faulkner
For more news, check out the Global Geek News Blog
Global Geek News Podcast #46
Here are the shownotes for episode #46 for the Global Geek News Podcast.
Global Geek News #46
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Stories:
- Kindle outsells every other product on Amazon
- The end of the CrunchPad
- EU formally adopts file sharing rights
- IsoHunt asks court to legalize its operations
- Mininova deletes all infringing torrents, goes legal
- Swedes starting to buy music. Are anti-P2P laws working?
- MPAA to FCC: Critics of video blocking proposals are lying
- Microsoft issues takedown notices over spilled COFEE
- Microsoft-Yahoo search/ad deal approved in Australia and Canada
- Blogging vs Microblogging: Twitter’s global growth flattens while Wordpress’ picks up
- Verizon whines over Sprint’s “Most Dependable” claims
Tip of the week: How to Un-Google Yourself
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Host: Jeremy Bray & Wesley Faulkner
For more news, check out the Global Geek News Blog
Global Geek News Podcast #34
Here are the shownotes for episode #34 for the Global Geek News Podcast.
Global Geek News #34
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Stories:
- HDTVs are now in more than half of US homes
- Modder arrest reminds that most console hacks are illegal
- The Pirate Bay Dutch retrial
- 14-24 year olds pirate over 8,000 songs each
- People increasingly waking up to the internet
- US Marine Corps bans social networking sites
- Study: Facebook can threaten relationships
- Twitter not so popular with young people
- AT&T changes contracts to prevent class action lawsuits
- You can now text message 911…in parts of Iowa
Host: Jeremy Bray & Wesley Faulkner
Global Geek News Podcast #32
Here are the shownotes for episode #32 for the Global Geek News Podcast.
Global Geek News #32
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Stories:
- Major war averted? AT&T restores access to 4chan
- Netflix prize comes to a buzzer beater finish
- AOL may spin-off Bebo into independent company
- Skype threatens Russian national security
- Facebook goes on the record about ad claims
- Microsoft caves to the EU, offers browser ballot
- Windows 7 has been released to manufacturing
- Palm plays cat-and-mouse with Apple, re-enables iTunes sync
- AMD ships 500 millionth x86 processor
- Online ad revenues at the New York Times dropping like a rock
Host: Jeremy Bray & Wesley Faulkner
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
Music: Rush by Walt Ribeiro
Global Geek News Podcast #5
Here are the show notes for episode #4 of the Global Geek News Podcast:
Global Geek News – Show #5
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- NBC tries to patch relationship with Apple
- IncrediMail gets stay of execution from Google
- EA revamps Battlefield with free, ad-supported online title
- New Blu-ray 2.0 spec make sPS3 the most future-proof player
- Nokia to invest in Facebook
- Biometric system reports kids eating habits to parents
- Leopard Boot Camp gets 64-bit Windows Vista support
- FDA wants new overview of wireless tech health risks
- Japanese infrared revamp transfers at Gigabit speeds
- AT&T announces business plans for iPhone customers
Hosts: Jeremy Bray
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