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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The podcast currently has 344 episodes available.

Geeks Interrupted episodes:

November 25, 2013 Episode #42: 25th 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:
CEO admits Optus milked customers [The Age]
No need for 100Mbps NBN, Switkowski tells Senate [Delimiter]
Victoria Police to increase fines for motorists who use mobile phones behind the wheel [The Age]
End of an era: Once-popular media player Winamp closing down on December 20 [The Next Web]
Source: Microsoft In Talks To Buy Shoutcast And Winamp From AOL [TechCrunch]
Report: Spotify Is Now a $4 Billion Company [Mashable]
Last man streaming: Spotify's $250 million war chest makes it the music company to beat [The Verge]
Two Million! [Raspberry Pi]
Photographer wins $1.2 million from companies that took pictures off Twitter [Reuters]
Switch to e-books was 'an unmitigated disaster', says school principal [Independent.ie]
Apple will now pay you for a water-damaged iPhone or iPad | Apple [CNET]
iWork for iOS and Mac Updated, Keynote Gains New Transitions [Mac Rumors]
Genius Bar reservation page now suggests online support solutions for quick troubleshooting [9to5Mac]
Apple Co-Developed Next Generation Hearing Aid Device Coming to Market in Q1 2014 [Patently Apple]
Monty Python's surviving members to reunite for stage show [ABC]
Blur Big Day Out cancellation leaves promoter 'devastated and confused' [SMH]
Max Headroom broadcast signal intrusion [Wikipedia]
World tunes in to Doctor Who for 50th-anniversary episode [The...
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2h 3min
November 18, 2013 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...
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2h 1min
November 11, 2013 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]
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2h 1min
November 04, 2013 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...
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2h 2min
October 28, 2013 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]
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2h 9min
October 21, 2013 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...
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2h 2min
October 14, 2013 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...
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1h 59min
October 07, 2013 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]
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2h 22min
September 30, 2013 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...
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2h 2min
September 23, 2013 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...
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2h 1min

FAQs about Geeks Interrupted:

How many episodes does Geeks Interrupted have?

The podcast currently has 344 episodes available.