Global Geek News Podcast #54
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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Host: Jeremy Bray
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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
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Global Geek News Podcast #44
Here are the shownotes for episode #44 for the Global Geek News Podcast.
Global Geek News #44
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Stories:
- nVidia denies x86 chip rumors, pushes Fermi back to 2010
- Got friends? Now you can thank Facebook
- Myspace traffic drop costs News Corp. $100 million
- Sony’s PSPgo sells 28,000 units in Japan on launch day, physical media points and laughs
- Inventor of cell phones say they have become too complicated
- Apple’s hypocrisy continues, approves Mein Kampf for the App Store
- Why you should think twice before dating an iPhone user
- Comcast’s new throttling plan uses triggers to throttle bandwidth
- Secret anti-piracy treaty turns ISPs into cops or pirates
- Anti-piracy group throws in the towel, pirates walk free
Tip of the week: 100 Open Technology Courses
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Host: Jeremy Bray & Wesley Faulkner
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Global Geek News Podcast #42
Here are the shownotes for episode #42 for the Global Geek News Podcast.
Global Geek News #42
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Stories:
- Sheriff’s lawsuit over craigslist erotic ads thrown out
- Court orders The Pirate Bay to delete torrents
- Copyright threats against compulsive singer withdrawn
- Facebook users spend 8 billion minutes a day on the site
- 28% of Twitter users click links to news and current events
- Yahoo! shuts down Geocities
- Barnes & Nobel announce dual screen e-book reader, the Nook
- Walmart prepares to take on Best Buy’s Geek Squad
- PS3 to get Netflix streaming
- Hulu’s free glory days are officially numbered
Tip of the Week: The master list of Windows 7 shortcuts
The winner of the Global Geek News Windows 7 Ultimate Giveaway is announced!
Host: Jeremy Bray & Wesley Faulkner
Global Geek News Podcast #40
Here are the shownotes for episode #40 for the Global Geek News Podcast.
Global Geek News #40
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Stories:
- FTC: Bloggers must disclose paid reviews
- Obama bans texting while driving for 4.5 million government employees
- Man arrested at an Apple Store after threatening to shoot his iPhone with a 9mm pistol
- Amazon clarifies Kindle deletion policy, can still delete books
- The Pirate Bay will not be sold
- Anti-piracy outfit forces scene group to apologize and spread FUD
- Draft policy would OK troop’s tweets
- The battle continues, Palm re-enables Palm Pre sync with iTunes
- Hidden fees discovered in “free” Windows 7 upgrade
- Linux saves Australia’s electrical grid
Tip of the week: How to turn a spare Linux machine into a media server
Global Geek News is giving away a copy of Windows 7 Ultimate!
Host: Jeremy Bray & Wesley Faulkner
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 #22
Here are the shownotes for episode #22 for the Global Geek News Podcast.
Global Geek News #22
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- 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
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 #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
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