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GNC-2009-11-20 #529 Get ready for the 24hr Podcast

Posted by geeknews at 1:27 AM on November 20, 2009

I have announced my tentative date for the 24hr Podcast, lots to cover between then and now. But as always it is my pleasure to do that 24hr show. Need to pick a charity for this year. Suggestions are welcome. Production of the video portion of the show is really improving, have a few more things to work out but I am happy with process. Back to a normal show flow next show.

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Why Microsoft has lost the mobile phone market!
Are you using Dropbox I want to hear your opinion!
It is time for Personal Servers in fact it’s overdue!
Sony rolls out its own Music, Movie store.
Apple needs to really ready this!
Captions on YouTube
Extra Benefit of YouTube Captions.
Google Phone.
PeerNews launching in Hawaii!
Shuttle at ISS all is well.
Yahoo to Index Twitter Immediately!
14 Free Mac Developer Apps.
Apple and Others Quality Control.
FTC going after Fraudulent Check printer.
Azure comes out of Beta Jan 1st!
Are these folks stealing from you?
Pirate Bay Alive and Well!
California to add Border checks for TV’s
The REAL Mars research game!
Smile for the Camera Please!
What are you doing is no What’s Happening!
Hypocrites!
Going Free doubles a companies Business.
Senate to put Hammer down on Phrama, Professors and Book Publishers!
Walmart new Copyright Police!
The destruction of Live Music in America!
Tradeup to Bluray for $15.00?
Hackintosh back in Action on Atom!
Windows 7 Sales Explosive!
Check WiFi on American Airline Flights!
Google Chrome the Announcement!
Google Chrome OS do I really want this?
Will this list support Google Chrome OS?
Windows Home Server Update Coming!
Pandora has amazing conversion rates!
Sprint 4G you gotta get better than this?
EFF Goes after Podcasting Patent in Big way!

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GNC-2009-06-05 #483 Video is a Main Topic!

Posted by geeknews at 1:54 AM on June 5, 2009

Newsletter subscribers check your emails for clues but you have to listen as well to win. I talk about the Video Gravy train for a bit tonight. Looking for input from non podcasters details on the show. As we head into the summer months you will want to remember to take the show with you as you roll outside to do yard work heck you can even have fun with it by shouting out in agreement when I hit some company with criticism.

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Show Topic Notes:
Mark is correct free ride on Video is about Over!
Sony Digital Copies on UMD Library to be Available
45mps Wireless downloads on Airlines?
Palm Pre iTunes Support Funky
Cool Clock but way to Pricey
Great 4th of July Prank
AT&T Prepaid Data Plans Good Idea!
Have you tried Bing?
Steve Jobs how bad was it?
iPhone Video? Weird ring to it!
FTC shuts down Webhost with 15k Customers
Cirque to be next ISS Tourist
Endeavor good for Launch on 6-13.
Atlantis back at Kennedy Space Center.
RIAA no Takers in 6 Months for ISP Cooperation plan???
EFF to track Terms of Service Changes
10 Hot Jobs
Warrantless Wiretapping and Surveilance Suit tossed out!
This is Hogwash how long have we been holding reg Phones?
Hulu looking to get your Money?
DOJ looking at Hiring in the Valley.
Oprah hottest Tech Ticket in Town.
Record Video Watching Last Month!
Manage files in OSX outside of the horrid Finder
YouTube coming to your Flat Screen!
Tuesday Next week will be a big Patch Tuesday
ICANN Finally taking action on DNS Security
Stem Cells Treatment cause site to be regained!
DVD Sniffing Dog makes big bust!
MSI Air PC
Go get them Cher!

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GNC-2009-05-29 #481 I lead off with PowerPress Update

Posted by geeknews at 1:42 AM on May 29, 2009

Ok folks we have a Round Table coming up this weekend I hope you will stop by for the show. Details on the blog at TechPodcasts.com. Covered a lot of ground on this show ending with some amazing news about a Dutch music organization!

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Show Topic Notes:
Travel Honey to find your Car!
Palm Pre will Sync with iTunes!
Ultimate Chip Cooling
Party online likes its 1964!
ISS Image from Ground Telescope
Geek Gear!
Look mom no Finger Prints!
Zune HD Video and Overview
Hulu had a reason for putting Boxee in Penalty Box!
Wikipedia blocks Scientology IP’s
Woz amazed at Microsoft’s Bing.com
The Secret Newspaper Honcho Meeting to retake the world.
What Model of Camera is This?
New Mars Rover Named!
Soyuz off to ISS with 3 more Crew Members!
If you got this Ticket you would be mad.
Closest Supernova in 5 Years!
This is how F111 dumps Fuel
EFF comes up with some Instructional Material.
FCC to deal with Rural Broadband
Spam Levels reaching 90%
Acer Windows Home Server great Price!
Windows 7 SSD Performance.
Scan your Prints when leaving the US.
DNS should remain in US Control?
AT&T CEO says Data Consumption on Mobile Networks Killing Them!
Dutch Music Firm Gamble with Artist Earnings.
Honolulu Electronic Voting results in 6% turn out!

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Tags: AT&T, Bing.com, Boxee, DNS, eff, Hule, iss, PowerPress, space, spam, wikipedia, Windows 7, Windows Home Server, Zune HD

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GNC-2009-04-09 #467 Last show in Texas back to Hawaii

Posted by geeknews at 7:44 PM on April 9, 2009

Meet-up in Dallas at the Dallas Embassy Suites South at 6pm lots of content in this episode that will get you fired up. Show will be back in Honolulu next week join me on the live stream.

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Show Notes:
A.P. YouTube Page Suprise to A.P.
A.P. Looses it
Time Warner Focuses on Austin on Purpose!
Metered Broadband will kill Innovation
Copyright & Fair Use
EFF Weighs in on Wiretapping
EFF Content ID Worse than DMCA
PUMA
Fiber Cut and Reward
Electric Power Grid Hack
Blockbuster may have to shut Down
High Speed in Australia
Patch Tuesday will be big
Variable Pricing on Media Sales
Conficker goes to work
French say no to 3 strike rules
Do you access Public Data
TWC Price Gouging
BitTorrent Links removed from Facebook

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GNC-2009-03-17 #460 Sorry Host with Bad Cold Tonight

Posted by geeknews at 2:08 AM on March 17, 2009

Someone on that flight home from Japan had a cold and hooked me up. But the show must go on. Apologies in advance. Lots of Podcaster Meetups in a city near you over the next month listen to for your area!

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iPhone 3.0
Seattle Paper Shifts Online Only
Web After RIP
Blog Editor Reviews
Netflix Streaming Caps?
Lenovo Leaks Pocket Notebook
Dell Adamo
Twitter Tips
Galactic Doom in a Million Years
Safari and Chrome Lacking Vision Impaired Usability?
AT&T Blows it at SXSW
Mosquito Laser
Rockets for all my Friends
Internet Ocean Cable Repair Service
Apple Shuffle Headphone Info
Mystery Chip just sends Control Signals
Windows 7 RC in May
iPhone 3.0 Rumors
Comcast Passwords
Seesmic Introducing Twitter/Facebook/iPhone apps
Hacked Machines to Climb April 1st
RIAA still Suing
EFF opens up all Documents obtained from Gov’t
Brain Memory Switch
Shuttle to ISS

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GNC-2007-11-30 #321

Posted by geeknews at 3:08 AM on November 30, 2007

I catch you up on the latest info here at the new house, talk about podcasting and cover a pile of tech news.

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Father of Podcasting Dave Winer’s take on Podcasting
Spammers Giving Up?
Use iPhone on Laptop
Be a Google Search Expert
EFF FInds Comcast Packet Shaping Trafic
MSNBC on EFF Comcast Findings
FBI Bot Roast II
Mobile Phone 3.3 Billion?
3G iPhone
Cyberbulling
Comcast Bandwidth in 2008
Warner Music Loosing Money
EMI to Slash RIAA Donation
Verizon going GSM
DSL Speed Growing Outside US
Digg Google Search
Cool Video Implementation
White Label RSS Aggregator
Netflix and NBC
Microsoft changes the iPod
P2P Traffic Increasing
Pay Per Post Bloggers Crying
ISS May Have Air Leak
Mars Rover Spotted
Hackers Hijack Search Results
NASA Outlines Mars Mission
Sprint Need No Money!
DontCensorMe.com

Gems I Found
Your Tax Dollars at Work
Extreme Data Recovery
Data Center Building

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GNC-2007-09-18 #303

Posted by geeknews at 3:45 AM on September 18, 2007

Back to normal show lengths here. This show is packed from end to end and I talk a little bit about my iPhone unlocking experience and T-Mobile Edge Slowness

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Show Notes:
Google Presntation
Proxy Server Operator calling it Quits
Vista and 13 Year old Virus
Can you go back to PC Once you go Mac?
Levelator has New Home
Self Chilling Sprite!
Apple Updates iTunes shuts door on one Ringtone Hack
Make a Bootable Mac External Drive
The Moon still holds a lot of Secrets
27 Blog Building Tips
90 GB Limit for Comcast Internet Users
Winamp at 10 Years
EFF Hiring
Apple Checksum Cracked
iPod Touch LCD Screen Issues
15 Free SEO Tools
Microsoft adds Slingbox capability to Media Center!
Sprint Airave
iPod Touch things it is a iPhone
Google Reader Subscribers
Wordpress Blog gets Pulled
SightSpeed 6 Review
Miracle at the New York Times
Zimbra sold to Yahoo 350 Million
Do your turn your PC Off?
OpenOffice 2.3 Released
Universal blocks Music from iPod
Space Shuttle Needs Repairs
TSA Improvised Electronics Banned
So Sad Robert Jordan Dead at 58

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MPAA versus the EFF

Posted by geeknews at 4:45 PM on June 9, 2006

In a cross-talk interview done by the BBC resulted in a some good dialog from the knight in shining honor at the EFF and the evil empire leader at the MPAA [BBC]

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RIAA and MPAA want to freeze the progress of consumer electronics!

Posted by todd at 3:11 AM on January 23, 2006

Don’t believe that their are all kinds of sinister acts happening now. Well you need to wake the heck up and listen to some of the stuff I have been talking about. If the following two articles don’t make you sit up and get very angry then I will ask you to comment on why not. Read and pay close attention to what is being attempted. [ArsTechnica] [EFF]

This will be a topic for tonights podcast where I am going to have a few things to say!

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If you have not made a comment you still have a few hours

Posted by geeknews at 11:09 AM on December 1, 2005

From the EFF

Today is the last day to submit proposals (by 5p EST) to the Copyright Office seeking a 3-year DMCA exemption for noninfringing activities that are otherwise squelched by “digital rights management” (DRM) restrictions [EFF]

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EFF Files Class Action Lawsuit Against Sony BMG

Posted by geeknews at 3:59 PM on November 21, 2005

EFF goes after Sony in a big way. I send the EFF a yearly donation and this year I am going to double my contribution. When companies like Sony do what they wish and break the publics trust they need to understand that the general public is not going to put up with these types of actions.

Seeing my wife’s computer was infected with Sony’s Rootkit and having spent 5 hours getting this malware removed and rebuilding the computer we will see if they honor the invoice I have mailed to them. I am looking forward to the response I get from their legal department. [EFF]

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The RIAA trying to reduce the quality of future Radio Reception

Posted by geeknews at 3:28 PM on September 15, 2005

CALL TO ACTION

The RIAA has decided that the makers of next generation of Digital Radio Receivers need to legislated so that you will not copy music that is being broadcast over the digital airways.

They are asking congress to build restrictions into these digital players so that they cannot have material copied out of them and also to reduce the quality of the music.

From the EFF “In other words, the music industry is basically saying that, where recording from next-generation radio is concerned, government must step in and freeze innovation to ensure that you can never do anything that you couldn’t do with an analog cassette deck in 1984. This, despite the fact that Congress specifically approved of digital recording off the radio in the Audio Home Recording Act in 1992. So this is about stopping music fans from doing things that are perfectly legal under copyright law.”

I encourage you to read the entire article by the EFF and visit the associated links. Join the letter writing campaign to speak out. [EFF]