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Global Geek News Podcast #61
Apr 6th
Here are the shownotes for episode #61 for the Global Geek News Podcast.
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Stories:
- Developers turn sour on the iPad
- iPad numbers announced: 300k sold, 1 million apps downloaded, 250k books downloaded
- New Moto Droid commercial challenges Apple’s “app for that” spots
- Windows 7 passes 10% market share
- 90% of Windows 7 flaws fixed by removing admin rights
- DARPA chief says the US may face a major nerd shortage
- New Zealand’s new patent reform bill says no to software patents
- US anti-piracy group files 20,000 anti-piracy lawsuits with 30,000 more coming
- Judge: Isohunt must remove copyrighted content
- Facebook killing “become a fan,” embracing “like”
Tips of the Week:
- 5 ways to identify that song stuck in your head
- Save your boarding pass so you don’t lose out on frequent flier miles
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Host: Jeremy Bray & Wesley Faulkner
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Global Geek News Podcast #58
Mar 9th
Here are the shownotes for episode #58 for the Global Geek News Podcast.
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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
Tips of the Week:
- 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 #54
Feb 3rd
Here are the shownotes for episode #54 for the Global Geek News Podcast.
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Stories:
- Bans on phones and texting while driving shown ineffective
- 70% of employers have rejected applicants over online information
- 3 Strikes coming to the US via the back door?
- RIAA to appeal Thomas ruling
- Microsoft sues prominent bittorrent tracker for $43 million
- Microsoft sued over Xbox Live points
- IFPI loses deep-linking case against Baidu
- CompTIA backs down, old certs still good for life
- War of words between Apple and Adobe heats up
- Amazon caves to Macmillans eBook pricing demands
Tips of the Week:
- 64 things every geek should know
- How to write a viral blog post: 7 real examples
- Reminder: Windows 7 RC shutdowns begin in a month
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Host: Jeremy Bray
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Global Geek News Podcast #50
Dec 29th
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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Host: Jeremy Bray & Wesley Faulkner
Guest: Maya Grinberg
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Global Geek News Podcast #48
Dec 15th
Here are the shownotes for episode #48 for the Global Geek News Podcast.
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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 #38
Sep 24th
Here are the shownotes for episode #38 for the Global Geek News Podcast.
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Stories:
- Pirate Bay appeals judge faces ban, works for Spotify
- FCC Chairman wants net neutrality
- Court: bad employees are not hackers
- Lawyer demands jury stops googling
- RIAA’s elementary school copyright curriculum
- Songwriters want paid for 30 second song previews
- Amazon starts AmazonBasics, its private-label consumer electronics line
- Blockbuster to close up to 960 stores
- Hulu tests subscription based service internally
- Student kills intruder with samurai sword after Playstation and laptop are stolen
Tips of the week:
- Identify which end is up on plugs with a drop of glue
- 16 tips for being productive and finding time for everything
Host: Jeremy Bray & Wesley Faulkner
Global Geek News Podcast #33
Aug 7th
Here are the shownotes for episode #33 for the Global Geek News Podcast.
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Stories:
- Department of Defense looking for new recruits at hacker convention
- Researchers find insecure BIOS ‘rootkit’ pre-loaded in laptops
- Pirate Bay spokesman Peter Sunde resigns
- Student hit with $675,000 fine after losing to the RIAA
- Congressman calls for P2P ban after major security leak
- Senate to introduce legislation to ban texting while driving
- Archbishop cautions texting, email could lead to suicide
- Podcasting patented by VoloMedia
- Apple tried to silence owner of an exploding iPod with a gag order
- Orbit your own satellite for $8000
Host: Jeremy Bray & Wesley Faulkner
Global Geek News Podcast #28
Jun 23rd
Here are the shownotes for episode #28 for the Global Geek News Podcast.
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Stories:
- 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 #20
Apr 13th
Here are the shownotes for episode #20 for the Global Geek News Podcast.
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Stories:
- Dice.com shows a 45% drop in tech jobs
- Blockbuster is on its deathbed
- Circuit City looks to rise again
- Time Warner Cable says it singled out Austin’s geeks
- Apple and Stanford offering free iPhone development classes on iTunes
- Apple’s legal showdown over multitouch begins
- FCC asked to investigate AT&T for Skype iPhone restrictions
- Radiohead to testify against the RIAA
- Microsoft boasts that 96% of netbooks run Windows
Hosts: Jeremy Bray and Wesley Faulkner
Global Geek News #13
Jan 17th
Here are the shownotes for episode #13 for the Global Geek News Podcast.
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Stories:
- Circuit City to be liquidated
- App Store hits 500 million downloads
- Steve Jobs takes a leave of absence from Apple for health reasons
- Twitter hires a biz-dev guru
- Sony sells its 50 millionth PS2 in North America
- Palm Pre may be Best Buy exclusive
- Judge will allow streaming of RIAA case
- YouTube mutes videos with unauthorized copyrighted music
- Teens send nude pics to one another, face child porn charges
- 95% of music downloads are pirated
Hosts: Jeremy “pcnerd37″ Bray & Wesley Faulkner
Music by Walt Ribeiro
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