Global Geek News Podcast #58
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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Host: Jeremy Bray & Wesley Faulkner
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Global Geek News Podcast #51
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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Host: Jeremy Bray & Wesley Faulkner
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Global Geek News #12
Here are the shownotes for episode #12 for the Global Geek News Podcast.
Global Geek News #12
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- Best Buy puts vending machines in airports
- IE below 69% market share, Firefox over 21%
- Microsoft’s pay-as-you-go patent application rejected
- Did Microsoft intentionally leak the Windows 7 beta?
- The Israeli Army video blogs the fighting, gets censored by YouTube.
- Game consoles using over $1 billion in energy a year
- Sony tries to balance free speech and hate speech in PlayStation Home
- PSP piracy is on the rise, despite Sony’s claims
- Man gets death threats on Xbox Live, has to pay to change is gamertag
- Facebook nudity angers nursing mothers
Hosts: Jeremy “pcnerd37″ Bray & Wesley Faulkner
Music: Walt Ribeiro’s Rush