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  • Samsung Pay Arrives In Australia, Microsoft Buys LinkedIn & Seven Launch Paid Subscription For Olympics | Episode 156
    Phil Edwards, Andy Blume and Daniel Olivares are back in the studio with this week's look at all things Geek.
    Show Notes:
    Telstra is fastest, but a big surprise for Vodafone coverage [The Age]
    Samsung Pay just launched in Australia [Business Insider Australia]
    Etihad Stadium takes fan experience to the next level with Smart Seats [Tech Guide]
    What Kogan paid for Dick Smith [CRN]
    The 13 biggest announcements from Apple WWDC 2016 [The Verge]
    New Apple File System promises more speed, flexibility, reliability [ZDNet]
    Apple Explains Why iMessage Hasn't Expanded to Android [MacRumors]
    How a Nine-Year-Old Australian Landed a Coveted WWDC Apple Scholarship [MacRumors]
    Apple introduces Swift Playgrounds app that teaches kids to code [The Verge]
    Twitter Has Invested $70 Million in SoundCloud [Yahoo!]
    Why Is Twitter Investing In The Online Music Platform SoundCloud? [Forbes]
    New Barbie could 'see more girls enter world of gaming' [ABC News]
    Microsoft to acquire LinkedIn for $26.2 billion [The Verge]
    Manners maketh Nan: Google praises grandmother for polite internet searches [The Guardian]
    'Star Trek' Actor Anton Yelchin Dies at 27 [Variety]
    The Seven Network will charge Australians to watch the Olympics [Business Insider Australia]
    YouTube stars establishing company to provide digital influencers with career advice [The Daily Dot]
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    1 hr 38 min
  • Gawker Media Files For Bankruptcy, Paid Ads In The App Store & Whose Line Is It Anyway? Australia | Episode 155
    Phil Edwards, Andy Blume and Daniel Olivares are back in the studio with this week's look at all things Geek.
    Show Notes:
    Mark Zuckerberg's Twitter and Pinterest accounts hacked, LinkedIn password dump likely to blame [VentureBeat]
    Pirate Party Australia [Pirate Party Australia]
    Flux Party [Flux]
    PUNT [iTunes]
    Telstra customers hit by another major outage [The Age]
    Woman trolls Telstra with cat pictures after being disconnected for weeks [SMH]
    Twitter locks millions of accounts after passwords posted for sale [The Guardian]
    PayPal Refuses to Refund Twitch Troll Who Donated $50,000 [eTeknix]
    Gawker Media files for bankruptcy after Hulk Hogan sex tape case [The Age]
    Singapore is taking the internet away from all of its 140,000 public servants [Quartz]
    Apple Rumored to Be Debuting iMessage for Android at WWDC [MacRumors]
    What Apple's App Store changes mean for you [TechRadar]
    New Apple Store shirts may have helped thieves pose as staff to steal $66k's worth of iPhones [9to5Mac]
    Apple creates a new company to sell solar energy [Engadget]
    Bluetooth 5 will be announced next week with four times the speed and double the range [The Verge]
    Rod Stewart knighted in Queen's birthday honours [The Guardian]
    Axl Rose sends notice to Google demanding takedown of fat memes [Consequence Of Sound]
    'Prison Break' star Wentworth Miller shuts down fat-shaming meme [Entertainment Weekly]
    Foxtel Commissions Australian Adaptation Of 'Whose Line Is It Anyway?' [The Music]
    1 hr 37 min
  • Amazon Web Services Sydney Outage, Uber's Subprime Auto Leases & Keep Community Radio | Episode 154
    Phil Edwards, Andy Blume and Daniel Olivares are back in the studio with this week's look at all things Geek.
    Show Notes:
    Web chaos mostly over after Amazon Web Services hit by power outage during Sydney storm [The Age]
    Telstra's 'prolific inventor' was no doctor [The Age]
    ATO kills off e-Tax [News.com.au]
    Labor to 'deliver fibre-based broadband', says Albanese [Computerworld Australia]
    Wall Street loans Uber $1 billion to offer subprime auto leases [The Verge]
    Tony Fadell Quits Nest After A Load Of Problems [Gizmodo Australia]
    With Touch ID rumored for Apple's new MacBook Pros, PC makers prep trackpad fingerprint readers [AppleInsider]
    Microsoft's drastic upgrade tactic pays off with boost to Windows 10 share [ARN]
    WWDC 2016 rumor roundup: What to expect at Apple's June 13 keynote [AppleInsider]
    Apple iOS update fixes bricked iPad Pros [iTnews]
    R.I.P. Muhammad Ali [Dark Horizons]
    Labor commits to keeping community radio [CBAA]
    DC confirms next year's Justice League movie is indeed titled 'Justice League' [The Verge]
    The writer of The Bourne Identity is reportedly working on Rogue One's reshoots [The Verge]
    Archer's producers want Jon Hamm's body-phrasing!-for a possible film [The A.V. Club]
    9Now launches on Apple TV and introduces server side ad-insertion [Mediaweek]
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    1 hr 42 min
  • Three-Strikes Piracy Scheme Dropped, Microsoft Bans Stupid Passwords & Ghostbusters Star Responds To Online Haters | Episode 153
    Phil Edwards, Andy Blume and Daniel Olivares are back in the studio with this week's look at all things Geek.
    Show Notes:
    Bertram Poppingstock: Problem Solver [ABC3]
    ISPs and rights holders quietly ditch three-strikes piracy scheme [CNET Australia]
    Telstra internet outage was caused by a faulty 'software update' [The Age]
    Telstra CEO Andy Penn acknowledges his company has problems [SMH]
    New Telstra Bundle Includes Five Free Outages A Month [The Shovel]
    Vodafone to splash $9m on 32 new regional mobile sites [iTnews]
    MySpace breach potentially the largest ever [iTnews]
    Hackers Stole 65 Million Passwords From Tumblr, New Analysis Reveals [Motherboard]
    The average age for a child getting their first smartphone is now 10.3 years [TechCrunch]
    Turn off your phone or we'll do it for you: venues wrestle with legalities of blocking [The Age]
    Microsoft bans stupid passwords in wake of LinkedIn leak [TechSpot]
    Microsoft is giving up on consumer smartphones, too [Recode]
    McCarthy Responds To "Ghostbusters" Haters [Dark Horizons]
    New Top Gear branded a 'diabolical disaster' as fans turn on host Chris Evans [The Age]
    Sam Mendes Is Done With James Bond [Dark Horizons]
    Something we mentioned in the show but missing in the Show Notes? Let us know via our Contact Page.
    Questions, Comments, Feedback and Suggestions are all welcome.
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    55 min
  • TechSydney, Our Google I/O 2016 Recap & TV Upfronts 2016 | Episode 152
    Phil Edwards, Andy Blume and Daniel Olivares are back in the studio with this week's look at all things Geek.
    Show Notes:
    AFP raid ALP offices in Melbourne over NBN 'leaks' [SMH]
    Shorten questions whether Fifield told PM about NBN leak probe [ABC News]
    Two NBN staff stood down in AFP leak investigation [iTnews]
    The AFP is investigating theft, not leaking - Let's get real about the NBN & AFP [EFTM]
    Over 40 Australian startups and global giants launch TechSydney [ZDNet]
    TechSydney criticised for a lack of a diversity [StartupSmart]
    Court overturns Uber driver's fine effectively legalising UberX in Victoria [SBS News]
    Google I/O 2016: A recap of everything you need to know [The Next Web]
    YouTube Red and YouTube Music now available in Australia [CNET]
    A hacker is selling 117 million LinkedIn logins on the Dark Web [The Next Web]
    ANZ's Apple Pay exclusivity drives credit card applications, other Australian bank...
    1 hr 38 min
  • ATM Use On The Decline, Instagram's New Logo & Ukraine Wins Eurovision 2016 | Episode 151
    Phil Edwards, Andy Blume and Daniel Olivares are back in the studio with this week's look at all things Geek.
    Show Notes:
    #Lizzies: All The 2016 IT Journalism Awards Winners [Gusworld]
    Cancer cheat Belle Gibson facing legal action [ABC News]
    Telstra customers lose NBN services in NSW [iTnews]
    Telstra DNS outage causes customer grief [iTnews]
    CommSec analysis shows ATM use declining as shoppers shift to cashless [The Canberra Times]
    Vic opposition threatens to refer Myki tender to audit office [iTnews]
    The new Instagram logo gets panned by social media [9 News]
    Google plans to start blocking Flash in Chrome this year [The Verge]
    'Dangerous' payday loans join guns and drugs on Google's banned ad list [The Guardian]
    Microsoft warns free Windows 10 offer expires soon [CRN]
    Amazon launches competitor to YouTube [CRN]
    Apple confirms reports of potential bug in iTunes; safeguard patch expected next week [iMore]
    Apple invests $1 billion in Chinese ride-hailing service Didi Chuxing [Reuters]
    Apple's $1 Billion Investment in Didi Chuxing Aligned With Electric Vehicle Plans [MacRumors]
    UK shows off prototype of digital iPhone driving license using Apple's Wallet app [9to5Mac]
    A Rare Slip of Latinum [Star Trek]
    Ukraine wins Eurovision 2016 [TV Tonight]
    HBO Is Coming After Australian Game Of Thrones Pirates [Lifehacker Australia]
    Seven appeases AFL fans by quietly launching HD simulcast channel 7HD [Mumbrella]
    Something we mentioned in the show but missing in the Show Notes? Let us know via our Contact...
    1 hr 41 min
  • Tech In Budget 2016, Apple's Secret Meeting With Podcasters & YouTube Bigger Than TV | Episode 150
    Phil Edwards, Andy Blume and Daniel Olivares are back in the studio with this week's look at all things Geek.
    Show Notes:
    Finalists announced for 14th annual MasterCard IT Journalism Awards [Influencing]
    'Boaty McBoatface' polar ship named after Attenborough [BBC News]
    There's now a petition to have David Attenborough re-named 'Boaty McBoatface' [The Independent]
    Budget 2016: Which govt departments won tech money to burn? [CRN]
    Budget 2016: NBN Co is running out of money [Delimiter]
    Vodafone launches build-your-own Prepaid recharges with MyMix [EFTM]
    Kogan relaunches Dick Smith brand online [iTnews]
    World Password Day: Here are 4 tips for staying safe online [CNET]
    Apple Meets With Podcasters to Hear Wide-Ranging Community Grievances [MacRumors]
    Apple's actual role in podcasting: be careful what you wish for [Marco.org]
    Vale: Reg Grundy [TV Tonight]
    YouTube now bigger than TV among advertisers' target audience [Los Angeles Times]
    Time Warner Cable Media Pushes Back After YouTube's Bold Claim About Audience Reach [Adweek]
    'The Blues Brothers' Animated Series With Dan Aykroyd In The Works At Bento Box [Deadline]
    Something we mentioned in the show but missing in the Show Notes? Let us know via our Contact Page.
    Questions, Comments, Feedback and Suggestions are all welcome.
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    1 hr 36 min
  • Productivity Commission Geoblocking Report, ANZ Welcomes Apple Pay & Quickflix In Administration | Episode 149
    Phil Edwards, Andy Blume and Daniel Olivares are back in the studio with this week's look at all things Geek.
    Show Notes:
    Consumers should be able to bypass geoblocking: Government agency [ABC News]
    NBN Sky Muster satellite service goes live [The Age]
    Competition to name icebreaker will 'avoid Boaty McBoatface situation', minister says [ABC News]
    Seniors targeted in Ararat tax scam [The Ararat Advertiser]
    Hackers steal Gumtree users' personal details [The Age]
    Windows 10 interrupts a live TV broadcast with an unwanted upgrade [BetaNews]
    Original Shapes biscuits on sale for $50 because everyone hates the new recipe [Mashable]
    Teen causes road accident taking Snapchat photos, now victim is suing Snapchat [The Age]
    Sign language gloves 'to empower the deaf community' [ABC News]
    ANZ Bank Switches On Apple Pay [Gizmodo Australia]
    Quickflix appoints voluntary administrator [The Age]
    'Ghostbusters' Remake the Most Disliked Trailer of All Time [ScreenCrush]
    Aussies top list of Game of Thrones pirates [The Age]
    Getflix Lifetime Subscription for only $59 [Reckoner]
    Something we mentioned in the show but missing in the Show Notes? Let us know via our Contact Page.
    Questions, Comments, Feedback and Suggestions are all welcome.
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    1 hr 43 min
  • Australia's $230M Cyber Security Strategy, Emoji 4 Porn & Foxtel's Tweet The Beat TV Show | Episode 148
    Phil Edwards, Andy Blume and Daniel Olivares are back in the studio with this week's look at all things Geek.
    Show Notes:
    Turnbull launches government's cyber security strategy [Computerworld Australia]
    Turnbull's $230M Cyber Security Strategy: Four Industry Experts Respond [Lifehacker Australia]
    Music industry jumps on Aussie piracy site blocking law [iTnews]
    auDA to introduce .au direct registrations [ZDNet]
    Intel announces "evolution" away from PC industry, "up to 12,000" layoffs [Ars Technica]
    Microsoft Discontinues Xbox 360, Servers Staying Online [GameSpot]
    Rumoured PlayStation 4 'NEO' upgrades power and aims for 4K [CNET Australia]
    Pornhub Now Lets You Choose Porn With Emojis [Gizmodo Australia]
    Apple confirms WWDC 2016 will begin June 13th [The Verge]
    WWDC Rumor Roundup: Everything Apple could announce at its upcoming event [9to5Mac]
    Apple's MacBook refresh brings better specs and Rose Gold [The Next Web]
    Infighting at Apple leads to manager's resignation, more 'likely' to follow [The Next Web]
    1 hr 33 min
  • Australia Post Trial Drone Deliveries, Facebook F8 Conference & Netflix To Air Top Gear | Episode 147
    Phil Edwards, Andy Blume and Daniel Olivares are back in the studio with this week's look at all things Geek.
    Show Notes:
    Boaty McBoatface Has Won The Boat-Naming Contest, But Organisers Are Already Backing Out [Junkee]
    Racehorse named Horsey McHorseface in Boaty McBoatface homage [BBC News]
    Telstra hit by customer backlash over marriage equality position [SMH]
    Telstra CEO Andy Penn admits telco wrong to not support same sex marriage [mUmBRELLA]
    Church told gay CEOs at Qantas, SBS to stop supporting marriage equality [The Age]
    KFC Australia tried to make a dick joke. It backfired. [Mashable]
    Friends' attempt to find Woolworths 'dream girl' spotted in mushroom aisle attracts backlash [9 News]
    Australia Post trials parcel delivery by drone [iTnews]
    Sydney to trial bank card tapping on Opal network [iTnews]
    The 3 biggest announcements from Facebook's F8 conference [BGR]
    Everything Facebook announced at F8 2016 [The Next Web]
    BuzzFeed Slashes Revenue Forecast: Is This the Beginning of the End of...
    1 hr 41 min

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Geeks Interrupted is a weekly 2-hour tech show broadcasting live from the studios of 94.1FM 3WBC in Box Hill near Melbourne, Australia. Phil Edwards, Andy Blume and Mark Macdowell discuss the latest…