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Global Geek News Podcast #22
Apr 28th
Posted by Jeremy Bray in podcast
Here are the shownotes for episode #22 for the Global Geek News Podcast.
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Stories:
- 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
$62000, AMD, antitrust law, Apple, Apple layoffs, baby shacking app, bad college grades, Blockbuster, BYU, DualShock, dvd rentals, EU, European Union hits Intel with antitrust violations, Facebook, game rentals, Gamefly, Immersion, Intel, mobile data card fees, Netflix, patent lawsuit, pay per article, paying for online news, PDP/Electrosource, pirates by more music, rumble, Sony, subscription fees, universities to be replaced by technology, US Postal Service, USPS, Yahoo kills geocities
Global Geek News Podcast #20
Apr 13th
Posted by Jeremy Bray in podcast
Here are the shownotes for episode #20 for the Global Geek News Podcast.
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Stories:
- 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
anti-competitive, Apple, Austin Texas, Blockbuster, Blockbuster dies, Blockbuster dying, Circuit City, circuitcity.com, Dice.com, economy, Elan Microelectronics, FCC, fewer tech jobs, Geeks, iPhone, Microsoft, multitouch, netbook, netbook os marketshare, Radiohead, recession, RIAA, Skype, Stanford, Synaptics, Time Warner Cable
Global Geek News Podcast #4
Dec 25th
Posted by Jeremy Bray in podcast
Here are the show notes for episode #4 of the Global Geek News Podcast:
Global Geek News – Show #4
Podcast Feed: 
- Britons sending A Billion text messages weekly
- FTC fines Do Not Call registry offenders
- Blu-ray’s DRM defeated with crack of BD+
- P2P war continues; Demonoid knocked out again
- P2P users buy more music
- Target won’t carry Manhunt 2
- Google at the gas pump
- AMD taps graphics chip for date-crunching
- Microsoft to release two security updates next week
- Tivo to offer advertisers user data
- Blockbuster tests pricing, new format in stores
Hosts: Jeremy Bray
