Global Geek News Podcast #48
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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 #45
Here are the shownotes for episode #45 for the Global Geek News Podcast.
Global Geek News #45
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Stories:
- Smoking near Apple computers creates biohazard, voids warranty
- Netbooks have higher failure rates than laptops
- Google’s Chrome OS, the next big thing or Google’s great blunder?
- Microsoft: Azure to go live in January, for pay in February
- Bing captures 10% of the search market in the US
- Banned Xbox 360 modders unite with a class action lawsuit against Microsoft
- New York tests Xbox-based alert system
- Sony to expand the PlayStation Network into Sony Online Service, sell music, books and videos
- “Unfriend” declared word of the year
- Digg CEO Adelson: “I don’t think people expect to pay for news anymore”
Tip of the week: Office 2010 Professional beta available for download (FREE!)
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Host: Jeremy Bray & Wesley Faulkner
Special Guest: Randall Bennett from TechVi.com
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Global Geek News Podcast #44
Here are the shownotes for episode #44 for the Global Geek News Podcast.
Global Geek News #44
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Stories:
- nVidia denies x86 chip rumors, pushes Fermi back to 2010
- Got friends? Now you can thank Facebook
- Myspace traffic drop costs News Corp. $100 million
- Sony’s PSPgo sells 28,000 units in Japan on launch day, physical media points and laughs
- Inventor of cell phones say they have become too complicated
- Apple’s hypocrisy continues, approves Mein Kampf for the App Store
- Why you should think twice before dating an iPhone user
- Comcast’s new throttling plan uses triggers to throttle bandwidth
- Secret anti-piracy treaty turns ISPs into cops or pirates
- Anti-piracy group throws in the towel, pirates walk free
Tip of the week: 100 Open Technology Courses
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Host: Jeremy Bray & Wesley Faulkner
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Global Geek News Podcast #39
Here are the shownotes for episode #39 for the Global Geek News Podcast.
Global Geek News #39
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Stories:
- Sony sets the PSP Go up for failure
- Expect PS3 shortages this Christmas season
- Two more Pirate Bay appeals judges accused of bias
- Ignoring RIAA lawsuits is cheaper than going to trail
- France gives final approval to three strikes law
- Feds weigh cellphone bans for bus and truck drivers
- Netflix CEO hopes to stream to PS3, Wii, iPhone
- US wants UK hacker to pay for the security holes he exposed
- NSW seeks to build unhackable netbooks for students
- Moronic pervert to officer: “Hypothetically, what would you do if you found child pornography?”
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Tip of the week: Save $50 on an Xbox 360 Elite with a rebate
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 #22
Here are the shownotes for episode #22 for the Global Geek News Podcast.
Global Geek News #22
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- Study finds pirates buy 10x more music online than non-pirates
- $62,000 movie download a result of poor travel planning
- Gamefly: USPS handles DVD rentals with kid gloves, ignores us
- Sony sued for cheating man out of rumble patents
- Facebook users get worse grades in college
- BYU Professor: Universities will be irrelevant by 2020
- Apple lays off 1600 employees
- Yahoo quietly pulls the plug on Geocities
- Journalism Online: Time to start paying for online news
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 Podcast #19
Here are the shownotes for episode #19 for the Global Geek News Podcast.
Global Geek News #19
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- IBM to reportedly buy Sun for $7 billion
- Phoenix police raid home of critical blogger
- Texas bans Vista from government computers
- Study: Facebook and YouTube at work makes for better employees
- Virtual gaming leagues fold, forcing gamers to find real jobs
- Sony Drops the price of the Playstation 2
- Time Warner monthly data caps spread beyond Texas
- ABC/Disney looking to join Hulu?
- 84% of people would prefer to have more blog readers than Twitter followers
- Netflix upping Blu-ray fees
- AT&T tweaks wireless terms of service to forbid video streaming, filesharing and data tethering
Hosts: Jeremy Bray and Wesley Faulkner
Music: Rush by Walt Ribeiro
Global Geek News #13
Here are the shownotes for episode #13 for the Global Geek News Podcast.
Global Geek News #13
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- 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
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
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