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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Host: Jeremy Bray & Wesley Faulkner
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Global Geek News Podcast #42
Here are the shownotes for episode #42 for the Global Geek News Podcast.
Global Geek News #42
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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- Copyright threats against compulsive singer withdrawn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
Tip of the Week: The master list of Windows 7 shortcuts
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Host: Jeremy Bray & Wesley Faulkner
Global Geek News Podcast #36
Here are the shownotes for episode #36 for the Global Geek News Podcast.
Global Geek News #36
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Stories:
- EA spends 3x more on marketing than development
- PS3 selling more units than the Wii after the price drop
- US Government says all music downloads are theft
- Utah law punishes texting drivers with 15 years in prison
- Don’t like the results of a vanity search? Don’t sue Yahoo
- Wi-fi cafe users love Apple and like to spend
- The Kindle is more environmentally friendly than actual books
- Amazon makes up for 1984 book deletion
- Watching TV while surfing the net? You aren’t alone
- Top developer reveals sad Android Market sales figures
Tip of the week: How to fix the YouTube jumpiness in Firefox
Host: Jeremy Bray & 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 #21
Here are the shownotes for episode #21 for the Global Geek News Podcast.
Global Geek News #21
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- 83% of businesses won’t deploy Windows 7 next year
- Twitter worm attacks continue
- Skype founders looking to buy Skype back from Ebay
- CompUSA comes back from the dead with 30 new stores
- Systemax buys Circuit City’s brand and domain name
- Sony in talks to offer free, full-length movies on YouTube
- France slaps down proposed anti-piracy bill
- Court: Your Myspace page isn’t private
- Barnes & Noble may jump into the e-reader market
- 72% of guys prefer gaming to their girlfriend
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
Global Geek News #10
Here are the shownotes for episode #10 for the Global Geek News Podcast.
Global Geek News #10
Podcast Feed:
- P2P traffic to grow by 400% in 5 years
- P2P compliance: Schools seeing red as they shell out the green
- Global Anti-Piracy Day
- Sony says all your actions are belong to us
- Google releases Android source code
- E3 goes back to the big show, opens up to the public
- iList debuts social classifieds
- Kentucky judge upholds state’s gambling domain grab
- New PSP units suffer from major interlacing problem
- Microsoft proposes phones that tap and rub to get your attention
Host: Jeremy “pcnerd37″ Bray – Follow me on Twitter!
Global Geek News Podcast #5
Here are the show notes for episode #4 of the Global Geek News Podcast:
Global Geek News – Show #5
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- NBC tries to patch relationship with Apple
- IncrediMail gets stay of execution from Google
- EA revamps Battlefield with free, ad-supported online title
- New Blu-ray 2.0 spec make sPS3 the most future-proof player
- Nokia to invest in Facebook
- Biometric system reports kids eating habits to parents
- Leopard Boot Camp gets 64-bit Windows Vista support
- FDA wants new overview of wireless tech health risks
- Japanese infrared revamp transfers at Gigabit speeds
- AT&T announces business plans for iPhone customers
Hosts: Jeremy Bray
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