Here are the shownotes for episode #58 for the Global Geek News Podcast:

Stories:

* Amazon terminates Colorado based associates over new taxes

* Music biz hopes to stop piracy by tempting ISPs with millions

* Ubisoft's DRM servers go down, only pirates can play games

* Sony's great new idea: Game demos that are less fun over time

* Study links violent video games to violent thoughts

* Microsoft talks Windows Phone 7 Series: XNA, Silverlight and no backwards compatibility

* How big were the Winter Olympics online?

* Internet Explorer 8 still not playing well with over 2,000 popular sites

* Google Chrome gains as IE and Firefox lose

* 27% of e-reader owners wish they had waited for the iPad

* Notebooks, iPad like tablets to be 70% of PCs by 2012

Tips of the Week:

* 6 Critical Wordpress plugins you should have installed

* Save water damaged books, docs, photos by putting them in the freezer

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