Global Geek News Podcast #57
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Global Geek News #57
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Stories:
- 1/3 of Americans don’t use fast internet
- Survey: More Americans get news from the internet than newspapers or radio
- EU tells Google to warn cities before sending in the Street View cameras
- Open wi-fi outlawed by Digital Economy bill in UK
- US Government ending its hands off the internet stance
- EU to block ACTA disconnect provisions
- US lawmakers set sights on P2P programs
- The awful anti-piracy system that will probably work
- P2P use down, but 24m fewer people bought music in 2009 compared to 2007
- Apple uncovers child workers in its plants
- Glitch makes older Playstation 3 units inoperable
Tips of the Week:
- Automatically turn off your speakers when you lock your PC
- How to get traffic to your blog
- 5 Simple ways to find your passion and take your blog from zero to hero
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Host: Jeremy Bray & Wesley Faulkner
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Global Geek News Podcast #56
Here are the shownotes for episode #56 for the Global Geek News Podcast.
Global Geek News #56
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Stories:
- Windows Phone 7 official, lacks flash and multitasking
- France votes Tuesday on net censorship
- NBC plots crackdown on Olympic pirates
- Australian judge rules facts cannot be copyrighted
- Racist content on US server ‘within UK jurisdiction’
- Record 13 year sentence for hacker
- Apple may use iPad to test lower priced TV shows
- Congress wants and e-book reader for low-income kids
- Internet ‘rewires our brains’ and makes teenagers more vulnerable to mental illness
- Google experiments with becoming a fiber ISP
- Google launches Buzz
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- 10 Best ways to use your PC while you are at work or asleep
- 9 More ways to promote your blog offline
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Host: Jeremy Bray & Wesley Faulkner
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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
Tips of the Week:
- 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 #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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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”
Tip of the week: Office 2010 Professional beta available for download (FREE!)
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Host: Jeremy Bray & Wesley Faulkner
Special Guest: Randall Bennett from TechVi.com
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Global Geek News Podcast #30
Here are the shownotes for episode #30 for the Global Geek News Podcast.
Global Geek News #30
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Stories:
- Google announces Chrome OS for netbooks
- Amazon killing mobile apps that use its product data
- Rumor: Amazon looking to buy Netflix
- New algorithm guesses SSNs with your birth date and birth place
- Chegg allows you to rent textbooks Netflix style
- P2P collection costs man huge fine, suspended jail sentence
- Judge rules P2P sites legal and should be presumed innocent
- Teenagers losing interest in illegal file-sharing as streaming gains momentum
- Assaulted by somebody you met online? Don’t sue the website
- Teenager falls down a manhole while texting and walking
Host: Jeremy Bray & Wesley Faulkner
Global Geek News Podcast #29
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Global Geek News #29
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- Europe gets handset makers to agree to universal charger
- Next tech IPO: LogMeIn
- Acer set to overtake Dell as #2 PC maker
- The Simpsons gets higher ad rates on Hulu than on TV
- Netbook study finds most netbook owners don’t know what netbooks are
- EA’s new motto: Please pirate our games… er, storefronts
- Judge thinks linking to copyrighted material should be illegal
- Dutch government wants to tax online media to fund print media
- Google’s mobile Adsense now in public beta
- Ad networks the laggards in Jackson traffic spike
Not only that, but we will talk PC buying tips to save you money!
Hosts: Jeremy Bray and Wesley Faulkner
Global Geek News Podcast #28
Here are the shownotes for episode #28 for the Global Geek News Podcast.
Global Geek News #28
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- Pixar grants girl’s dying wish to see Up.
- Poll finds physical media is dying, HDDVD is as popular Blu-ray
- Gamestop betting digital distribution is far, far away
- Kindle DRM surfaces to deny user the books he paid for
- Android users more dedicated to their apps than iPhone users
- Biggest game publisher threatens to stop making PS3/PSP games
- In round 2, Jammie Thomas jury awards $1.92 million to the RIAA
- FTC to crack down on undisclosed “sponsored” blogging
- Bill looks to ban ISP caps in the US
- Comcast to be first ISP to roll out IPv6 in 2010
Hosts: Jeremy Bray and Wesley Faulkner
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
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