Global Geek News Podcast #55
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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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 Podcast #45
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Global Geek News #45
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Stories:
- Smoking near Apple computers creates biohazard, voids warranty
- Netbooks have higher failure rates than laptops
- Google’s Chrome OS, the next big thing or Google’s great blunder?
- Microsoft: Azure to go live in January, for pay in February
- Bing captures 10% of the search market in the US
- Banned Xbox 360 modders unite with a class action lawsuit against Microsoft
- New York tests Xbox-based alert system
- Sony to expand the PlayStation Network into Sony Online Service, sell music, books and videos
- “Unfriend” declared word of the year
- Digg CEO Adelson: “I don’t think people expect to pay for news anymore”
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Host: Jeremy Bray & Wesley Faulkner
Special Guest: Randall Bennett from TechVi.com
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Global Geek News Podcast #24
Here are the shownotes for episode #24 for the Global Geek News Podcast.
Global Geek News #24
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- Freemium model to predominate in mobile apps with VAS revenues reaching $14Billion by 2014
- One in five families are cellphone only
- Can Android save Motorola?
- Twitter believes we are too stupid for @ replies Update!
- France passes “three strikes” anti-piracy law
- Trolling somebody online? Bill would slap you with jail time
- FTC Chair: We may jump into the net neutrality fray
- Intel hammered by the EU with $1.45 billion fine
Hosts: Jeremy Bray and Wesley Faulkner
Special Guest: Kevin Hustler