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GNC-2006-12-12 #224

Posted by geeknews at 2:49 AM on December 12, 2006

Talk about Hitachi as a Sponsor for Videocast we produce at CES, looking for a HD Hard Drive Video Recorder, update on my Niece and a big Thank You to all the attended the Tech Podcast Round Table

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Show Notes (Non Exclusive)
CopyBlogger
MyBlogLog
Website Optimizer
1869 Beer
XHTML Sitemap
Crook
Top 10 Scams
Vista Hack
Antarctica Volcano
Femto Cellular
iPod on ISS
iTunes Library
Honda Asimo
Dell Lawsuit
Help James Kim Family
iPhone Fake
Sharewood Picnic 82
Bloghaus CES
File Linking RIAA
Google Rip Off!
Zune what Community?
Skype Blocking
Analog TV RIP
Shuttle Damage None so Far!
Firefox gaining ground!

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Posted in ces, godaddy, google, hitachi, iss, Podcast, riaa, skype

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GNC-2006-11-10 #215

Posted by geeknews at 3:13 AM on November 10, 2006

Shout Out to all Veterans, Thank You for your service! I have a great show tonight and I get up on my soap box a couple of times. Lots of great show feedback from my family of listeners. Make sure you check out whats hot at Blubrry.com

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End of the Road
Take Data and Run!
Blog Pimpin
Gmail Features
Google Smack Down!
Apple Fires Little Twit
Mac Standard with Windows!
VOIP 33 Reasons
Useful Macbook Freeware
Circuit City Black Friday
Linksys New Router
PS3 Super Fans!
Skype 3.0
Open Media
ReviewMe.com
Startups On the Cheap
Microsoft Zune Review
IE Zero Day Attack
ISP’s need to be help Liable
Internet Predator
First Photos from Space!

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Telemarketers Targeting Skype Users?

Posted by geeknews at 2:41 PM on June 22, 2006

A friend of mine in the UK was on a Skype call with another person I know out in Nevada when they were interrupted with another incoming call. It was directed at the caller in Nevada, and when he answered he was blown away when it turned out to be a recorded telemarketing pitch in Spanish.

This is pretty discouraging but you have to expect this type of activity. Firms can now use technology to call people cheaply and automatically to anyone in the world hawking their products or services.

I am sure we will all have to look at out Skype configurations if this trend grows. The question I have is have you received a Skype call yet from a telemarketer pr received some prerecorded garbage? [tektrekgamer.wordpress.com]

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Posted in Commerce, Information, skype

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Skype Out Free to US and Canadian Number till end of 2006

Posted by geeknews at 1:54 PM on May 15, 2006

The folks at Skype in a absolute amazing marketing move has made calling any United States or Canadian telephone number a free call. That’s right you can call any land line phone from your computer for free. This is HUGE, the calls had already been cheap but this opens up Skype to those that may have been resistant to depositing credits for the account. [Skype]

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SkypeCast

Posted by geeknews at 3:26 PM on May 4, 2006

The service introduced by Skype today could very well shift the dynamics of podcasting a little. I am going to run a test later today, and see how well it works with a group of people, You are limited to having a live session with 100 people but this will be perfect for a lot of events, group discussion, and meetings that happen on the net.

The only limit I see at this moment is not being able to make the skypecast private, thus having a private online meeting using this service is not possible yet. But you could use it to broadcast your podcast live. [skypecasts.skype.com]

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Skype Conference Call Limit Hacked!

Posted by todd at 2:23 PM on March 6, 2006

I discussed last week how one of my Team members at RawVoice has Skype running on a computer with a AMD processor, and was pissed that he could not do a conference call with more than 5 people. Skype imposed conference call limit to those running AMD processors, well this limit has been hacked. Up to today only those with certain Intel chips in their desktops could do conference calls of more than 5 people.

A hacker who has been giving Apple some grief is now giving the Skype folks some grief, and has a patch available to unlock that AMD limitation. In all likelyhood the patch is illegal but I have already received a large number of e-mail from people telling me they have installed it. [News.com] [Maxxuss.com]

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AMD Serves Skype a Subpoena

Posted by todd at 1:27 PM on March 1, 2006

This scenario seems to happen way to often, I was talking with Angelo the CIO at RawVoice yesterday and he says hey why don’t we do a Skype conference call tonight with the six of us instead of dialing in to Free Conference Call and I said great idea, this was after the new version of Skype reported to be able to support up to 9 people in a conference call.

So at the appointed time we try to make it happen and 3 of the group could not get it to work, turns out you can only do 9 way calling if all of the participants are running Intel Inside. This blew me away and kinda made me say what the heck is that all about.

So today I check the news and sure enough AMD wants that question answered as well. More of the details at [news.com]

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