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  • Episode #41: 18th November 2013
    Andy Blume and Daniel Olivares are back in the studio with this week's look at all things Geek. Special Guest: Rob Amos.
    Show Notes:
    Milne pledges tough NBN Co board [AFR]
    Why Simon Hackett Is A Good Deal For NBN Co And NBN Fans Alike [Gizmodo Australia]
    NBN board member faces conflict dilemma [The Australian]
    Amazon hits Australian shores (kind of) [ABC]
    Amazon Australian Kindle Store: Everything You Need To Know [Lifehacker Australia]
    From $20m to $344m: Dick Smith for sale [The Age]
    Melbourne makes switch to digital TV [The Age]
    WikiLeaks publishes secret draft of Trans-Pacific Partnership treaty [The Verge]
    Trade deal could be bitter medicine [SMH]
    Snapchat rejected $3 billion buyout offer from Facebook: report [Reuters]
    Google reportedly tried to outbid Facebook for Snapchat with $4 billion offer [The Verge]
    Microsoft CEO candidate Stephen Elop said to consider selling Xbox business, killing Bing [The Verge]
    Apple Maps Significantly More Popular Than All Other iOS Mapping Apps, Including Google [Mac Rumors]
    Apple reportedly acquiring the company behind Microsoft's Kinect sensor [The Verge]
    Apple Driving Supply Chain Capacity with $10.5 Billion Investment in Advanced Technologies [Mac Rumors]
    BatKid Fights Crime in the Mean Streets of San Francisco For His Make-A-Wish Dream [Laughing Squid]
    Andy Kaufman's Brother Says Comedian is Alive, in Love and Has a Daughter [The Hollywood Reporter]
    Andy Kaufman's "Daughter" Is Actually A New York Actress Whose Real Dad Is A Doctor [The Smoking Gun]
    Michael Dorn Confirms He's...
    2 hr 1 min
  • Episode #40: 11th November 2013
    Phil Edwards, Andy Blume and Daniel Olivares are back in the studio with this week's look at all things Geek.
    Show Notes:
    Australian first - Free blanket WiFi in the Perth CBD [City of Perth]
    Cheap, legal options wouldn't stop Australians pirating [Delimiter]
    Telstra announces free calls to Philippines - Media Announcement [Telstra]
    Everpix, The Cloud-Based Photo Startup, Is Shutting Down [TechCrunch]
    Out of the picture: why the world's best photo startup is going out of business [The Verge]
    '.Catholic' Internet Domain Name Reserved By Vatican For Church Organizations Only [Huffington Post]
    Happy Ninth Birthday Firefox! [The Mozilla Blog]
    South Korean Authorities Admit They Are "Behind the Times" with Internet Explorer Laws [Softpedia]
    Bill Gates Unveiled Windows 30 Years Ago Today [Gizmodo Australia]
    Google Launches Helpouts, Paid Video Chats With Experts To Address Whatever Is Bothering You Right Now [TechCrunch]
    Google Ordered To Block Images Of Formula 1 Chief's S&M Orgy [Business Insider]
    Apple Releases Report on Government Data Requests [AllThingsD]
    The 'warrant canary' in Apple's compliance report [TUAW]
    Apple reportedly working on bigger, curved-glass iPhones with pressure sensitivity [The Verge]
    Apple orders shutdown of site that helps people find Apple products [The Verge]
    iPad Air bursts into flames in Australia store [Macworld]
    YouTube co-founder hurls abuse at Google over new YouTube comments [The Guardian]
    Blockbuster Closing All Of Its Remaining Retail Stores [Huffington Post]
    2 hr 1 min
  • Episode #39: 4th November 2013
    Phil Edwards, Andy Blume and Daniel Olivares are back in the studio with this week's look at all things Geek.
    Show Notes:
    FAA officially approves using electronics during all phases of flight [The Verge]
    Adobe: Hacker attack much bigger than previously disclosed [NBC News]
    MPAA: Melbourne's Caribbean Gardens is a "notorious market" of piracy [TechGeek]
    'Notorious' pirated DVD market pinpointed in Australia by US authority [The Age]
    Half a million NBN fibre connections in limbo [ITNews]
    Motorola reveals ambitious plan to build modular smartphones [The Verge]
    Bitcoin cashes in as its first ATM opens in Vancouver [The Guardian]
    On Facebook, a growing teenage wasteland [CNN]
    Yelp Reviewers Sue The Company Because They Think They're Employees [Business Insider]
    Google announces the Nexus 5 with Android 4.4, on sale today for $349 [Engadget]
    Google Android 4.4 'Kitkat': seven things you need to know [The Guardian]
    Google Glass 2 is coming, finally compatible with prescription glasses [Ars Technica]
    California Cop tickets woman for driving with Google Glass [Phandroid]
    Apple Q4 2013 Results: $37.5 Billion Revenue, 33.8 Million iPhones, 14.1 Million iPads Sold [MacStories]
    Apple results: five things we learned [The Guardian]
    Murder, She Wrote the latest old series to win a remake [The Age]
    War Of The Worlds 75th Anniversary [Wikipedia]
    HBO's 'Entourage' is coming to the big screen [The Verge]
    Kyle and Jackie O 'to join rivals in lucrative deal' [NineMSN]
    Something...
    2 hr 2 min
  • Episode #38: 28th October 2013
    Phil Edwards, Andy Blume and Daniel Olivares are back in the studio with this week's look at all things Geek.
    Show Notes:
    Telcos oppose ACCC audit plan [AFR]
    Real-time tracking for buses scrapped [The Age]
    Good call for telcos as complaints hit five-year lows [AFR]
    Aldi Mobile Halves Data Allowance On Unlimited Plan [Gizmodo Australia]
    Samsung fined $340,000 over faking negative web comments about competition [iDownloadBlog]
    Wikipedia: We have blocked 250 'sock puppets' for biased editing of our pages [The Independent]
    Tapbots and the State of Our Apps in iOS7 [Tapbots Blog]
    No one's forcing you to pay $3 for Tweetbot, so quit whining [Rant] [Today's iPhone]
    Tweetbot 3.0 For iPhone Is Here [andyblu.me]
    Everything You Need to Know About Today's Apple Event [Wired]
    Hands-on with GarageBand for iOS and OS X [Computerworld]
    Apple's got new products. What's missing? Surprises [Courier Mail]
    Marcia Wallace, voice of 'The Simpsons' Edna Krabappel, dies at 70 [Reuters]
    Lou Reed, Velvet Underground frontman, dies aged 71 [ABC News]
    ABC launch new Triple J station for 30+ audience [The Music Network]
    Netflix In Talks For Third Season Of 'House Of Cards' [Deadline]
    Something we mentioned in the show but missing in the Show Notes? Let us know via our Contact Page.
    Songs We Played:
    Lorde - "Royals" [iTunes]
    Smashing Pumpkins - "Disarm" [iTunes]
    Stone Temple Pilots - "Interstate Love Song" [iTunes]
    2 hr 9 min
  • Episode #37: 21st October 2013
    Phil Edwards, Andy Blume and Daniel Olivares are back in the studio with this week's look at all things Geek.
    Show Notes:
    After 16 years, Microsoft finally exits ninemsn [Delimiter]
    Older people net savvy but web costs can leave them lonely [The Age]
    City set for free Wi-Fi trial, but lagging behind other capitals [The Age]
    Commonwealth Bank Adds NFC Payments To Android, iOS [Gizmodo Australia]
    Optus to refund $8.8 million for billing error [The Age]
    Media Temple users will soon be GoDaddy customers [The Verge]
    Twitter may launch a standalone messaging app, says All Things D [The Verge]
    Twitter to Kill Twitter Music App [AllThingsD]
    Tapbots and the State of Our Apps in iOS7 [Tapbots Blog]
    Apple sends invitations to October 22nd event: 'we still have a lot to cover' [The Verge]
    Apple finally finds new Head of Retail: Burberry CEO Angela Ahrendts. Will begin in Spring 2014, run Online Stores too [9to5Mac]
    Apple iOS 7 lawsuit filed: man wants it removed from iPhone [BGR]
    No shock jocks for Ten's Wake Up show, just social media [The Age]
    Breaking Bad Creator Admits Illegal Downloads Helped The TV Show [Gizmodo Australia]
    Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Paul Rudd 'front-runners' to star in Edgar Wright's 'Ant-Man' movie [NME]
    Marvel reportedly prepping new suite of original shows for streaming services [The Verge]
    DOGTV, A Television Channel For Dogs [Laughing Squid]
    Something we mentioned in the show but missing in the Show Notes? Let us know via our Contact Page.
    Songs We Played:
    The Postal Service - "Suc...
    2 hr 2 min
  • Episode #36: 14th October 2013
    Phil Edwards, Andy Blume and Daniel Olivares are back in the studio with this week's look at all things Geek.
    Show Notes:
    Sydney Monorail becomes Google office space [SBS News]
    Australians more concerned about privacy than ever before [SMH]
    Nightclub fined $15k for sending SMS spam to patrons [The Age]
    GraysOnline fined record $165,000 for spam [The Age]
    AGL faces $50k fine for door knocking [SMH]
    NBN rollout was too ambitious: Stephen Conroy [The Age]
    Shift thinking on NBN: Google boss [The Age]
    Panasonic reportedly ending plasma TV production by end of March 2014 [Engadget]
    Raspberry Pi microcomputer reaches 1 million made in UK [CNET UK]
    WiFi kettle allows you to boil water from bed [The Telegraph]
    NASA gets Web host offer during shutdown -- from Russian pirates [CNET]
    Amazon takes on PayPal, now offering Amazon login and pay service to online business [Engadget]
    Google will soon put your face, name, and content in its ads [Ars Technica]
    Apple to host iPad event on October 22nd, says All Things D [The Verge]
    Apple offering iTunes credit for eligible customers that purchased iWork, iMovie, iPhoto after September 1 [AppleInsider]
    iPhone 5S users report 'Blue Screen Of Death' reboots [The Verge]
    iTunes Radio to hit Australia early next year, Bloomberg reports [The Australian]
    Yahoo Revamps Mail with Fresh Look, Threaded 'Conversations' and 1TB of Storage [The Next Web]
    T-Mobile announces unlimited global data roaming at no extra charge [Th...
    1 hr 59 min
  • Episode #35: 7th October 2013
    Phil Edwards, Andy Blume and Daniel Olivares are back in the studio with this week's look at all things Geek.
    Show Notes:
    Oxford station OX105 stops broadcasting [RadioToday]
    Apple iOS 7 makes some users literally SICK. As in puking, not upset [The Register]
    Stop Looking at Your F***ing Phone Every 5 Seconds! [YouTube]
    Telstra Launches Shared Data Plans [Gizmodo Australia]
    Ziggy Switkowski appointed NBN Co exec chair [Delimiter]
    Petition: Get Simon Hackett onto NBN Co's board [Delimiter]
    Website crowd-funds NBN FOI request [The Age]
    Sunrise host Sam Armytage's mobile phone number shown on air - but was it a stunt? [news.com.au]
    FBI seizes underground drug market Silk Road, owner indicted in New York [The Verge]
    Adobe's network compromised: 2.9 million customer names, encrypted credit and debit card numbers, and source code [The Next Web]
    1Password 4 for Mac arrives with shared vaults, 256-bit encryption and Wi-Fi Sync [The Next Web]
    Samsung forecasts record quarterly profit [BBC News]
    HTC posts first-ever quarterly loss [ITNews]
    BlackBerry reportedly in talks with Google, Samsung, and others about potential sale [The Verge]
    The Best And Worst Things 4Chan Gave The World [Gizmodo Australia]
    A Stock Called 'TWTRQ' Is Up 1,500% Today Because People Think It's Twitter [Business Insider]
    Tim Cook reflects on second anniversary of Steve Jobs' passing in letter to employees [9to5Mac]
    Apple's brand now more valuable than Coca-Cola as tech consumes pop culture [The Verge]
    2 hr 22 min
  • Episode #34: 30th September 2013
    Phil Edwards, Andy Blume and Daniel Olivares are back in the studio with this week's look at all things Geek.
    Show Notes:
    Seven's The Man With The Biggest Testicles documentary grips viewers [News.com.au]
    Thodey says ispONE collapse is unacceptable [AFR]
    The AFL And Telstra Are Working On A Google Glass App [Gizmodo Australia]
    NAB breaks up with teller cash drawers [The Age]
    Revealed: UK secretly arrested 16-year old boy for world's 'biggest' DDoS-attack [RT News]
    Finally, we won't have to power off during takeoff and landing [Ars Technica]
    Western Digital refreshes MyBook external HDDs, offers 4TB for $180 [Engadget]
    Candy Crush May Be Worth More Than $5 Billion After Its Secret IPO [The Wire]
    @Horse_ebooks is a human performance [The Verge]
    Google Turns 15: Google Doodle Lets You Whack a Piñata (Plus: Fun Easter Egg) [Time]
    Android is five years old today [The Verge]
    iMessage For Android Sounds Great But It's A Serious Security Issue: Researchers Explain Why You Should Avoid it Like The Plague [International Digital Times]
    iPhone map app directs Fairbanks drivers onto airport taxiway [Alaska Dispatch]
    Fake Apple Ad Says IOS 7 Will Make Your IPhone Waterproof And People Fell For It [Business Insider]
    Apple iOS 7 makes some users literally SICK. As in puking, not upset [The Register]
    Apple TVs can now be set up just by tapping them with an iPhone [The Verge]
    Australian TV Networks Haven't Learned A Damn-Thing From Piracy [Gizmodo Australia]
    Fox Will...
    2 hr 2 min
  • Episode #33: 23rd September 2013
    Phil Edwards, Andy Blume and Daniel Olivares are back in the studio with this week's look at all things Geek.
    Show Notes:
    TPG fibre plan challenges NBN [AFR]
    NBN board resigns [The Age]
    'Grand Theft Auto V' sets record by earning $1 billion in just three days [The Verge]
    EB Games apologises over Gold Coast 'cocaine' stunt [The Age]
    BlackBerry to retreat from consumer market, lay off 4,500 employees [The Verge]
    LinkedIn sued by users who say it hacked email accounts, stole contact lists [The Verge]
    Google buys Bump to share anything between your phone and laptop [VentureBeat]
    Google To "Buy" 100% Of Electricity From 240 MW Texas Wind Farm [CleanTechnica]
    Fork in the road: Cyanogen raises $7 million to build a better version of Android [The Verge]
    Ballmer calls Google a 'monopoly' that authorities should control [The Verge]
    Punt Road brothel terraces for sale [The Age]
    Nigerian grad student uses magnets to 'prove' gay marriage is wrong [io9]
    Apple found to be using advanced Multipath TCP networking in iOS 7 [AppleInsider]
    Check Out Apple's iOS 7 Terms & Conditions [Huffington Post]
    Apple's A7 processor is reportedly made by Samsung, at least for now [The Verge]
    Chaos Computer Club breaks Apple TouchID [CCC]
    iOS 7 adoption rate: 29% of Apple's customers in first 16 hours [Fortune Tech]
    Country Practice star Joyce Jacobs dies [NineMSN]
    Nintendo visionary Hiroshi Yamauchi dies aged 85 [BBC News]
    Billy...
    2 hr 1 min
  • Episode #32: 16th September 2013
    Phil Edwards, Andy Blume and Daniel Olivares are back in the studio with this week's look at all things Geek.
    Show Notes:
    MacTalk hacked and defaced with message purported from Syria [TechGeek]
    Malcolm Turnbull gives thumbs down to fibre NBN petition [The Age]
    Kogan puts company up for sale [Delimiter]
    Twitter will become a public company, files for IPO [The Verge]
    Facebook mobile app video ads: will play automatically without sound [BGR]
    iPhone 5s: Telstra's Pricing [Gizmodo Australia]
    iPhone 5c: Telstra's Pricing [Gizmodo Australia]
    Vodafone Pricing: iPhone 5c, iPhone 5s [Gizmodo Australia]
    Optus rolls out new 4G network [The Age]
    NSW Police trials iPad minis for tickets [Delimiter]
    The Audio Cassette Turns 50 [Gizmodo Australia]
    In a Breathtaking First, NASA's Voyager 1 Exits the Solar System [The New York Times]
    Netflix Uses Pirate Sites to Determine What Shows to Buy [TorrentFreak]
    Justin Bieber hints he is up for Robin role in Batman v Superman movie [NME]
    J.K. Rowling is writing a new movie in the Harry Potter-verse [io9]
    Fiery twerk video is a hoax, produced by Jimmy Kimmel [The Verge]
    'Breaking Bad' Saul Goodman Spinoff On AMC -- Series To Serve As Prequel [Deadline]
    Audio pioneer Ray Dolby dies aged 80 [BBC News]
    Something we mentioned in the show but missing in the Show Notes? Let us know via our Contact Page.
    Songs We Played:
    Joe Cocker - "You Can Leave Your Hat On" [iTunes]
    Del The Funkee Homosapie...
    2 hr 1 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…