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July 27, 2015 ABC Shop Closures, Twitter Deleting Stolen Jokes & The Great Australian TV Delay | Episode 116
Phil Edwards, Andy Blume and Daniel Olivares are back in the studio with this week's look at all things Geek.
Show Notes:
Labor to rethink support for data retention [The Age]
ABC to close its shops across Australia in favour of push towards online retail [Brisbane Times]
How GST changes, drop in dollar raise online shopping prices for Australians [The Age]
Optus suffers major mobile network outage in NSW, Victoria and Tasmania [The Age]
iiNet shareholders vote in favour of TPG Telecom merger [The Age]
Twitter just removed your homepage wallpaper, and people are furious [Mashable]
Twitter Is Using Copyright Law To Bust Joke Thieves [Gizmodo Australia]
No Humans Allowed! Test 'City' for Driverless Cars Opens [Live Science]
Uber Drivers Will Get Away With Sexual Assault [Taxi Council QLD]
Apple Reports Q3 2015 Earnings of $10.7B on $49.6B Revenue: 47.5M iPhones, 10.9M iPads, 4.8M Macs [MacRumors]
5 worrisome stats from Apple's Q3 earnings report [VentureBeat]
Bobbi Kristina Brown loses fight for life in echoes of her tragic mother, Whitney Houston [The Age]
2DayFM gets new licence condition but avoids being taken off air over royal prank call incident [mUmBRELLA]
Netflix buys hit Australian comedy series Utopia from Working Dog [The Age]
The Great Australian TV Delay: 2015 Edition [Reckoner]
Something we mentioned in the show but missing in the Show Notes? Let us know via our Contact Page.
Songs We Played:
Reef - "Place Your Hands" [iTunes]
Genesis - "I Can't Dance" [iTunes]
John Lennon - "Nobody Told Me" [iTunes]
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2 hr 3 min
July 20, 2015 Mozilla Blocks Flash, 10 Years Of Podcasts & Amy Schumer's Sexy Star Wars Pics | Episode 115
Phil Edwards, Andy Blume and Daniel Olivares are back in the studio with this week's look at all things Geek.
Show Notes:
Taxi Commission ambushes UberX driver inside Melbourne courtroom [The Age]
'No hesitation' using Uber service, WA Premier says [ABC News]
Labor will abandon its FTTP NBN policy [Delimiter]
Traditionalist Abbott keeps BlackBerry as PM's department prefers iPhone [ZDNet]
Mozilla blocks Flash as Facebook security chief calls for its death [The Verge]
Someone spoofed Bloomberg's website and a fake article made Twitter's stock soar [VentureBeat]
Spam email rate falls below 50 percent for first time in a decade [PCWorld]
Google Is Hiring An SEO Manager To Improve Its Rankings In Google [Search Engine Land]
Apple Launches A8-Based iPod Touch With 8MP Camera, Adds New Nano and Shuffle Colors [MacRumors]
Apple celebrates #10YearsOfPodcasts on iTunes [iMore]
Apple reportedly joins talks with cell providers to launch new 'e-SIM' cards [9to5Mac]
Neil Young is yanking songs from streaming, 'the worst audio in history' [Mashable]
Don't play Neil Young or the Doors, BBC tells DJs and programme makers [The Guardian]
Lucasfilm Calls Star Wars-Themed Amy Schumer Photos Unapproved & 'Inappropriate' [Comic Book Resources]
The Last Starfighter TV series in development [Den Of Geek]
Something we mentioned in the show but missing in the Show Notes? Let us know via our Contact Page.
Songs We Played:
Royal Blood - "Figure It Out" [iTunes]
Chvrches - "Leave A Trace" [iTunes]
Talking Heads - "Life Dur...
2 hr 2 min
July 13, 2015 NBN Meets Rollout Targets, IOS 9 Public Beta & Comic-Con 2015 Highlights | Episode 114
Phil Edwards, Andy Blume and Daniel Olivares are back in the studio with this week's look at all things Geek.
Show Notes:
Ellen Pao Resigns as Reddit Interim CEO After User Revolt [Bloomberg]
Small business, tax firms hit back at ATO tech troubles [The Age]
NBN meets Turnbull's June 30 rollout targets [Delimiter]
Telstra takes Warrnambool fire lessons to more sites [iTnews]
OpenSSL promptly issues patch for 'high severity' bug [The Inquirer]
Logitech to rebrand as "Logi," dropping "tech" from its name [Ars Technica]
Adblock Plus Saves University 40 Percent Network Bandwidth [TechWeekEurope]
Safari Content Blocker, Before and After [Daring Fireball]
New York City asks Google Maps to discourage left turns [Mashable]
Microsoft releases all-new Office 2016 for Mac to Office 365 subscribers [AppleInsider]
Apple iOS 9 now available as part of public beta [The Age]
Apple gives Greek iCloud users 30 days free service in light of financial crisis [AppleInsider]
Greece is being cut off from the internet [Business Insider Australia]
Actor Roger Rees dies in New York [ABC News]
Satoru Iwata, president who brought Nintendo back to relevance, dies at 55 [The Age]
J.J. Abrams Just Ethered Every Other Fan Event with a Free Star Wars Concert [Wired]
The latest trailer for Batman v. Superman shows superheroes leveling cities [The Verge]
Watch the raunchy and ridiculous Deadpool Comic-Con panel [The Verge]
Harry Shearer will STAY on The Simpsons...
2 hr 2 min
July 06, 2015 Reddit In Chaos, Apple Music Makes Its Debut & SBS On Demand Relaunched | Episode 113
Phil Edwards, Andy Blume and Daniel Olivares are back in the studio with this week's look at all things Geek.
Show Notes:
ATO under fire as myGov, myTax site problems prevent lodging of returns [The Age]
NSW taskforce to examine Uber-style ridesharing apps [Computerworld]
Aussie ISP bakes in geo-dodging for Netflix, Hulu [CRN]
Global Mode dead in New Zealand as ISP settles [ZDNet]
Reddit revolts: subforums shut down in protest over AMA co-ordinator sacking [The Guardian]
Facebook is talking with music labels, but why? [The Verge]
YouTube Beware: Facebook Will Start Sharing Ad Revenue With Video Creators [Re/code]
Google dev apologizes after Photos app tags black people as "gorillas" [Ars Technica]
Apple Music launches to take on Spotify - and traditional radio [The Guardian]
Universal Releases Official Full-Length Trailer for 'Steve Jobs' Movie [MacRumors]
Diana Douglas Webster, Mother of Michael Douglas, Ex-Wife of Kirk Douglas, Dies at 92 [Variety]
New-look SBS On Demand now offers 4,000 hours of content [CNET]
'The WETA Effect': How CGI and special effects saturation is ruining movies [The Age]
The WETA Effect, or, Why Special Effects Peaked in the 90's [YouTube]
Something we mentioned in the show but missing in the Show Notes? Let us know via our Contact Page.
Songs We Played:
Spring King - "City" [iTunes]
Galantis - "Peanut Butter Jelly" [iTunes]
Cheap Trick - "She's Tight" [iTunes]
Pulp - "Common People" [iTunes]
2 hr 2 min
June 29, 2015 Australia Passes Anti-Piracy Law, Apple's (Taylor) Swift U-turn & Netflix Slays Streaming Markets | Episode 112
Phil Edwards, Andy Blume and Daniel Olivares are back in the studio with this week's look at all things Geek.
Show Notes:
Belle Gibson on 60 Minutes: no remorse and the lies kept coming [The Guardian]
Australian senate passes controversial anti-piracy, website-blocking laws [SMH]
How will Australia's anti-piracy law affect you? [SBS News]
Identity thieves targeting apartments in Melbourne's west [The Age]
The ACCC tells Telstra to cut wholesale internet prices [The Age]
Dial-up is dead - here's all the things you're going to miss [SMH]
Telstra's Nationwide Wi-Fi Network Is Now Called Air [Gizmodo Australia]
Chinese tech firms fight over Wi-Fi router with 'pregnant women' setting [The Guardian]
Gmail Officially Adds Undo Send, Turn It On Right Now [Gizmodo]
Apple Says "We Hear You Taylor Swift", Will Pay Musicians During Free Trial [TechCrunch]
Indie Labels Have It Drastically Wrong About Apple Music's Free Trial Period [Forbes]
iOS 9 can delete and automatically re-download apps to make room for updates [Ars Technica]
Titanic composer James Horner dead in plane crash at 61 [The Age]
Netflix U.S. Viewing to Surpass ABC, CBS, Fox and NBC by 2016: Analysts [Variety]
Netflix Has 10 Times More Aussie Subscribers Than Foxtel, Stan Or Quickflix [Gizmodo Australia]
Downloads for Marc Maron's Obama podcast top 1.6 million [CNNMoney]
A Country Practice - The Novels [TV Tonight]
Something we mentioned in the show but missing in the Show Notes? Let us know via our Contact Page.
Songs We Played:
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2 hr 2 min
June 15, 2015 Exetel Dumps Heavy Users, WWDC 2015 Roundup & Foxtel Buys 15% Of Ten | Episode 111
Phil Edwards, Andy Blume and Daniel Olivares are back in the studio with this week's look at all things Geek. Special Guest: Rebecca Edwards.
Show Notes:
Changing the Facebook of news [Media Watch]
Exetel dumps 400 heavy broadband users [iTnews]
Primary-aged children accessed pornography at school [The Age]
Credit card fraud up by one third in 2014 [The Age]
Reddit bans 'Fat People Hate' and other subreddits under new harassment rules [The Verge]
Twitter CEO Costolo steps down as growth pressure mounts [ABC News]
Pornhub Wants Your Money To Make A Porno In Space [Gizmodo]
Nokia had developed a gorgeous Apple Watch rival... but Microsoft still killed it [BGR]
Everything from Apple WWDC 2015 in 12 minutes [YouTube]
Everything Apple Announced at WWDC 2015 in One Handy List [The Next Web]
Christopher Lee dies at the age of 93 [The Guardian]
Foxtel to buy 15 per cent of Ten [Sky News]
Milk company sues the ABC over The Checkout [The Age]
'Jurassic World' eats box office alive to set record [Yahoo! News]
Something we mentioned in the show but missing in the Show Notes? Let us know via our Contact Page.
Songs We Played:
Walk The Moon - "Shut Up And Dance" [iTunes]
Ben Harper - "Diamonds On The Inside" [iTunes]
Led Zeppelin - "Whole Lotta Love" [iTunes]
Dave Matthews Band - "Crash Into Me" [iTunes]
Powderfinger - "These Days" [iTunes]
Questions, Comments, Feedback and Suggestions are all welcome.
Website - http://geeksinterrupted.fm
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2 hr 1 min
June 08, 2015 COTD Escapes Data Breach Penalty, Yahoo's Product Prioritization & Showtime Starts Streaming Service | Episode 110
Phil Edwards, Andy Blume and Daniel Olivares are back in the studio with this week's look at all things Geek.
Show Notes:
The Hot Steaming Pod [iTunes]
Commit to Community TV [Commit to Community Television]
Catch of the Day escapes penalty over data breach [iTnews]
Australia bucks global decline in public sector IT, technology spending [iTWire]
NBN hits million premises mark [iTnews]
Yahoo announces plans to kill off Maps, Pipes, GeoPlanet and PlaceSpotter APIs, and some regional sites [VentureBeat]
US Air Force Uses 'Moronic' Selfie To Bomb ISIS Headquarters [Gizmodo Australia]
Facebook is the biggest political news source for millennials [Mashable]
Woman sues eBay, claims to own the sun [USA Today]
Google shows what it knows about us in new privacy hub [The Verge]
Windows 10 - Available July 29 [iTWire]
What to expect from Apple at WWDC 2015 [MacRumors]
The first products for Apple's HomeKit are available today [The Verge]
Apple doesn't want to share your private details, says Cook [TechRadar]
Star Trek's Nichelle Nichols Recovering from Minor Stroke [IGN]
Nancy Cartwright says The Simpsons owed a dignified ending [TV Tonight]
Showtime undercuts HBO with $10.99 stand-alone streaming service [The Verge]
Dwayne Johnson to lead 'Big Trouble in Little China' remake [Entertainment Weekly]
Disappointing tweet from Media Watch host misses the point [TV Tonight]
Something we mentioned in the show but missing in the Show Notes? Let us know via our Contact Page.
Songs W...
2 hr 2 min
June 01, 2015 Woolworths Gift Cards Data Leak, Google I/O 2015 Roundup & Stan Inks Deal With Telstra | Episode 109
Phil Edwards, Andy Blume and Daniel Olivares are back in the studio with this week's look at all things Geek.
Show Notes:
Rent-a-hacker site leaks Australian buyers' names and addresses [SMH]
Woolworths becomes wholesale Telstra 3G supplier [CRN]
Woolworths leaks $1 million of gift cards in massive data breach debacle [SMH]
Police edit shooting victim's Wikipedia page [The Age]
The 12 most important announcements from Google I/O 2015 [The Verge]
Windows 10 Pricing And Sale Date Leaked [Gizmodo Australia]
Cortana coming to iOS, Android, as part of Windows 10's embrace of every phone [Ars Technica]
What Jony Ive's 'promotion' to Chief Design Officer really means [9to5Mac]
A tiny string of text can disable iPhone Messages [The Verge]
Apple has published its official workaround for Messages bug [Cult Of Mac]
Woman unknowingly tosses a first-gen Apple computer worth $200,000 at a recycling center [The Next Web]
Unless kids are working, coding should not be taught: Abbott [ZDNet]
Vale John Pinder: Comedians pay tribute on social media [ABC News]
Community TV plans week of action as deadline looms [TV Tonight]
Stan inks deal with Telstra for free customer access in a bid to grow awareness of SVOD [mUmBRELLA]
Netflix says its streaming service is more energy-efficient than breathing and reading [The Daily Dot]
Something we mentioned in the show but missing in the Show Notes? Let us know via our Contact Page.
Songs We Played:
4 Non Blondes - "What's Up?" [iTunes]
Crowded House - "Locked Out" [iTunes]
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2 hr 2 min
May 25, 2015 Uber Vs. ATO, Spotify Now Does Videos And Podcasts & David Letterman's Final Show | Episode 108
Phil Edwards, Andy Blume and Daniel Olivares are back in the studio with this week's look at all things Geek.
Show Notes:
Uber lashes out at ATO ruling, saying it deserves different tax treatment to taxis [The Guardian]
Square opens Melbourne office [Computerworld]
Square's Australian launch raises Sydney Vs Melbourne tech rivalry [AFR]
Atlassian leads charge of start-ups abandoning Australia over tax [BRW]
Global Tech Company To Call Melbourne Home [Premier of Victoria]
Alexander Chung at Pause Fest 2015 - Can Australia become the next Silicon Valley? [YouTube]
Spotify Introduces Video Clips, Podcasts, And Activity-Based Playlists [TechCrunch]
Spotify Wants to Fill an Entertainment Gap That Isn't There [WIRED]
Adult dating site hacked, exposing personal data and sexual orientation [Mashable]
Apple Nixed Plans for Apple-Branded Television Set 'More Than a Year Ago' [MacRumors]
Apple readies Transit subway, train + bus guides for iOS 9 Maps, deploys robots for indoor mapping [9to5Mac]
Apple Introduces New iPhone Dock With Lightning Connector for $39 [MacRumors]
Anne Meara Dies; Actress, Comedian Of Stiller Family Was 85 [Deadline]
David Letterman's final episode: a stoic but touching send-off for the Late Show [The Guardian]
23 Things That David Letterman Invented [mental_floss]
A farewell to David Letterman and late night sexism [Daily Life]
Australian Netflix customers hit by 'excessive' billing error [The Age]
Something we mentioned in the show but missing in the Show Notes? Let us know via our Contact Page.
Songs We Played:
The Chemical Brothers - "Go" [iTunes]
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2 hr 1 min
May 18, 2015 Tech In Budget 2015, Microsoft Confirms Seven(!) Windows 10 Editions & TV Upfronts 2015 | Episode 107
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 2015 IT Journalism Awards Winners [Gusworld Blog]
All the tech in Budget 2015 [iTnews]
Hockey confirms Google, Netflix taxes [iTnews]
Scott McIntyre sues SBS over sacking after controversial Anzac Day tweets [The Age]
More consumers taking existing mobile phones to new plans to 'enjoy freedom' [The Age]
Hacker admits hijacking plane mid-air [The Age]
Verizon Buys AOL for $4.4 Billion [Re/code]
Verizon's deal to buy AOL will make life uncomfortable for TechCrunch and Engadget [The Next Web]
Ikea charges $1107 for a $1.99 kitchen accessory [The Age]
Microsoft rules out free Win10 upgrades for pirate copies [iTnews]
Microsoft confirms there will be 7 editions of Windows 10 [Mashable]
'Apple Music' service reportedly coming next month with a social network for artists [The Verge]
Apple TV gets new channels in Australia, Europe and Japan [AppleInsider]
PEOPLE Editors Preview Their Most Anticipated Shows [People.com]
Dwayne Johnson confirms Furious 8 appearance, excited for possible Hobbs spinoff [The Verge]
BB King, the King of Blues, dies at 89 [BBC News]
Looks Like The Simpsons Just Lost The Voice Of Mr. Burns, Ned Flanders [Kotaku]
'Pitch Perfect 2' Outsings 'Mad Max' With Stunning $70.3M Debut [The Hollywood Reporter]
First Steve Jobs trailer shows Michael Fassbender as the Apple founder [The Verge]
Something we...
2 hr 4 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…

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