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Global Geek News Podcast #50
Dec 29th
Posted by Jeremy Bray in podcast
Here are the shownotes for episode #50 for the Global Geek News Podcast.
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Stories:
- RIAA’s three-strikes rule just a “scarecrow?”
- Piracy surcharge set to force 40,000 households offline
- Court: Cellphone searches require a warrant
- Girl gamers geekier than guys
- Barnes & Nobel expects to ship 60,000 Nooks in 2010
- Kindle the most gifted item in Amazon history, e-books outsell physical books on Christmas day
- nVidia’s DirectX 11 cards pushed back to at least March
- AT&T says NYC can’t handle iPhones, stops selling them
- Microsoft barred from selling Word, workaround in the works
- New flying rules post crotch bomber
Tips of the Week:
- Search multiple torrent sites from your desktop
- How to improve your blog and social media strategy
- Access Facebook updates from a feed reader
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Global Geek News Podcast #42
Oct 27th
Posted by Jeremy Bray in podcast
Here are the shownotes for episode #42 for the Global Geek News Podcast.
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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- Copyright threats against compulsive singer withdrawn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
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Host: Jeremy Bray & Wesley Faulkner
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