Global Geek News Podcast #53
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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 #52
Here are the shownotes for episode #52 for the Global Geek News Podcast.
Global Geek News #52
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Stories:
- Judge: RealNetworks caused its own legal problems
- Politicians worldwide start asking questions about ACTA
- Prove piracy losses says digital economy bill
- BREIN shuts down 393 torrent sites, nobody notices
- Microsoft patents DRM’d torrents
- Site’s terms of service still enforceable even if users don’t read them
- Court unfriendly to the FCC’s internet slap at Comcast
- New scanners break child porn laws
- Judge: Subway system can’t ban violent video game ads
- Netflix coming to the Nintendo Wii
- DirecTV launching 3 dedicated 3D channels this year
- State of the vlogosphere
- Android demand up 250%, iPhone down
- Why Microsoft killed upgrade versions for Office 2010
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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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Global Geek News Podcast #43
Here are the shownotes for episode #43 for the Global Geek News Podcast.
Global Geek News #43
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Stories:
- Only 3% of Americans think it should be legal to text while driving
- 5 million Star Trek pirates vs 1 FCC broadband plan
- uTorrent 2.0 to eliminate the need for ISP throttling
- The Pirate Bay founders are banned from running the site
- NSA to store yottabytes of surveillance data in Utah
- Britain in trouble over Phorm
- Teen sues school over punishment for racy Myspace pics
- Cellphone holsters may reduce bone density
- Nokia kills off n-Gage
- Nintendo earnings fall for the first time in six years
- PC manufacture bloatware ads minutes to boot time
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Global Geek News Podcast #25
Here are the shownotes for episode #25 for the Global Geek News Podcast.
Global Geek News #25
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- Windows 7 to ship October 22nd
- Microsoft announces Project Natal for the Xbox360
- Tetris turns 25
- Anti-piracy groups target Australia’s children
- The FCC reserves the right to search your home at any time
- Texas blogger jailed after failing to turn her PC over to the judge
- Time Warner’s ToS changes could mean tiered pricing, throttling
- Time Warner gives up on AOL
- CircuitCity.com comes back online
Hosts: Jeremy Bray and Wesley Faulkner