Global Geek News Podcast #30
Here are the shownotes for episode #30 for the Global Geek News Podcast.
Global Geek News #30
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Stories:
- Google announces Chrome OS for netbooks
- Amazon killing mobile apps that use its product data
- Rumor: Amazon looking to buy Netflix
- New algorithm guesses SSNs with your birth date and birth place
- Chegg allows you to rent textbooks Netflix style
- P2P collection costs man huge fine, suspended jail sentence
- Judge rules P2P sites legal and should be presumed innocent
- Teenagers losing interest in illegal file-sharing as streaming gains momentum
- Assaulted by somebody you met online? Don’t sue the website
- Teenager falls down a manhole while texting and walking
Host: Jeremy Bray & 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 Podcast #17
Here are the shownotes for episode #17 for the Global Geek News Podcast.
Global Geek News #17
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- New York looks to tax downloads
- Microsoft to open retail stores
- Microsoft announces Windows Marketplace and My Phone for Windows Mobile
- Apple says that jailbreaking the iPhone is illegal
- Palm Pre gets Flash support
- Google now accepting paid apps for Android Marketplace
- YouTube tries micro-payments, more download options
- Online thieves scam the state of Utah out of $2.5 million
- Facebook’s new terms of Service causes outrage
- Canadian judge: No warrant required to see ISP logs
Hosts: Jeremy Bray and Wesley Faulkner
Music: Rush by Walt Ribeiro
Global Geek News #14
Here are the shownotes for episode #14 for the Global Geek News Podcast.
Global Geek News #14
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- 2/3 of Americans without broadband don’t want it
- Windows 7 App Store hinted at by Microsoft survey
- Obama looking at Open Source
- YouTube to let big content providers bring their own ads
- FCC asks if Comcast slows rival VoIP traffic
- 6 million households still not ready for the DTV switch
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
Global Geek News #11
Here are the shownotes for episode #11 for the Global Geek News Podcast.
Global Geek News #11
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- Windows XP gets 4 more months of life
- Australia to block BitTorrent
- EA comes to Steam with no DRM
- Abit closing its doors
- “I’m a Linux” videos coming
- Using speed cameras to send tickets to your enemies
- New York City to get LED street lighting
- Video games may be good for aging brains
- The RIAA Changes tactics
- Warner Music Group and Youtube can’t agree, music pulled from YouTube
- Teen file-sharing up 46%
Hosts: Jeremy “pcnerd37″ Bray & Wesley Faulkner
Global Geek News #7
Here are the show notes for episode #7 of the Global Geek News Podcast:
Global Geek News – Show #7
Podcast Feed:
- Yahoo-Microsoft Battle Bolsters Google
- Does Ballmer Need To Go?
- File-Sharer Convicted in Sweden’s Biggest P2P Case
- Zune 2.5 Update Brings TV Shows, More Social Networking, Improved Software Features
- CompUSA: It Lives!
- Yahoo To Flag Malware Sites In Search Results
- Activision/Blizzard leaves, still hopes to profit from ESA
- Blu-ray hits bumps in the road to HD market dominance
- NBC using YouTube clips to drive Hulu traffic
- RIAA: Piracy fight more important than net neutrality bill
- New Microsoft law enforcement tool bypasses PC security
Hosts: Jeremy Bray & Larry Miller
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