Global Geek News Podcast #58
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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 #53
Here are the shownotes for episode #53 for the Global Geek News Podcast.
Global Geek News #53
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Stories:
- E-reader owners buy more books
- New York Times will start charging for online news in 2011
- Microsoft asks users to dump IE6, XP because of security problems
- Microsoft merges Zune Software and Xbox teams
- Microsoft may drop points system from Xbox, Zune
- Study: Gamers have bigger brains, better learners
- Kids less happy as they are more plugged in to music/tv/web?
- Larry and Sergey plan to give up control of Google
- Judge cuts P2P lawsuit damages by 97%
- Court: WHOIS privacy is illegal for spammers
- Hulu considering $5/mo charge for older episodes
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Host: Jeremy Bray & Wesley Faulkner
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Global Geek News Podcast #27
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Global Geek News #27
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- Student accused of cheating after releasing the code from a homework assignment
- Windows 7 to be shipping without IE in Europe
- Windows 7 starter edition could be priced into oblivion
- Supreme Court rejects case over tech’s right to search your PC
- Top French court declares internet access a “basic human right”
- Court rules that an IP address isn’t enough to identify a pirate
- Stern letters from ISP not enough to stop p2p use after all.
- DVD, game sales hurting the music industry more than downloads
- EA exec: 360 has already been maxed out
- California to move to online textbooks
Hosts: Jeremy Bray and Wesley Faulkner
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