Geeks Interrupted

By 94.1FM 3WBC

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 n... more

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June 27, 2016 Regional Australia Data Drought, Apple Thunderbolt Display Retires & Election Sausage Sizzle | Episode 157
Phil Edwards, Andy Blume and Daniel Olivares are back in the studio with this week's look at all things Geek.
Show Notes:
Who the hell are all these people on the Victorian Senate ballot paper? [Decryption Rants Here]
'Short-sighted, expensive and backward looking': ex-NBN boss blasts Turnbull's plan [The Age]
$110 for 15GB: Regional Australians struggle with poor internet access [ABC News]
Where Do The Major Australian Political Parties Stand On Privacy And Encryption This Election? [Gizmodo Australia]
Pirate Bay, Torrentz under spotlight in Australian website-blocking test case [ABC News]
Victorian Government strikes deal with Sex Party over Uber regulation [ABC News]
How Well Are Australians Protecting Their Personal Data? [Gizmodo Australia]
800-pound Comodo tries to trademark upstart rival's "Let's Encrypt" name [Ars Technica]
Amex demos Facebook Messenger bot with purchase alerts, restaurant recommendations, and more [VentureBeat]
KFC's Latest Marketing Gimmick Is A Snack Box With A Built-In Phone Charger [Gizmodo Australia]
US Customs wants to collect social media account names at the border [The Verge]
Apple retires the Thunderbolt Display without announcing a replacement [Ars Technica]
For Pride 2016, Apple gave its employees this rainbow watch band [Recode]
Ghostbusters: Fall Out Boy's version of theme song dubbed 'hauntingly bad' [The Age]
FX renews Archer for 3 more seasons, vows to stay in the danger zone [Vox]
Scalpers selling Wiggles Perth concert tickets for $450 each [WA Today]
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1h 42min
June 20, 2016 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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1h 38min
June 13, 2016 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]
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1h 37min
June 06, 2016 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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1h 42min
May 30, 2016 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.
Website - http://geeksinterrupted.fm
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May 23, 2016 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...
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1h 38min
May 16, 2016 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]
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1h 41min
May 09, 2016 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]
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Questions, Comments, Feedback and Suggestions are all welcome.
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1h 36min
May 02, 2016 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.
Website - http://geeksinterrupted.fm
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1h 43min
April 25, 2016 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]
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1h 33min

FAQs about Geeks Interrupted:

How many episodes does Geeks Interrupted have?

The podcast currently has 344 episodes available.