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Here are the shownotes for episode #85 for the Global Geek News Podcast:

Stories:

* IPv4 space shrinks to 5%, final addresses to be issued in early 2011

* Microsoft expands anti-crackdown licenses to 12 countries

* Facebook apps leaking user info to third parties

* Government relies on Facebook "narcissism" to spot fake marriages and fraud

* New study: The average teen sends 3,339 texts per month

* One fifth of U.S. adults have engaged in video chats

* Patent troll suing sites for rollover web images

* E-book sales up 193% so far this year

* Home wifi networks 'could be hacked in 5 seconds'

* Insanity defense for hacking e-mail doesn't work

* Windows to Linux defections to outpace Unix shifts in 2011

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Here are the shownotes for episode #86 for the Global Geek News Podcast.

Stories:

* 1 in 7 people no longer wear a watch

* Sprint plans to phase out iDEN

* Android is now the top mobile OS, Apple is far behind

* Microsoft posts record earnings but still losing billions on the web

* Nintendo posts first six month loss in seven years

* Supreme Court set to rule on banning violent video games

* Law Profs: Senate will need to ratify the ACTA treaty

* Court slams music pirate with HUGE fine... of $41

* Bittorrent still dominates global internet traffic

* Judge realizes: On the internet, nobody can tell you are a kid

* Amazon customer purchases protected by the Constitution

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Host: Jeremy Bray & Wesley Faulkner

Here are the shownotes for episode #84 for the Global Geek News Podcast:

Stories:

* US intelligence agencies angry at France over 3 strikes law, worried it will drive encryption usage

* French ISP 'Free' refusing to send out Hadopi notices to internet users

* ACTA anti-piracy treaty not as horrible as feared

* Senator Wyden asks Congressional Research Service to determine if ACTA impacts US law

* Warner Bros. claiming that annoying customers with 28-day rental delay is working

* Google patent proposes $2 fee to skip commercials

* Internet traffic up 62% in 2010

* Microsoft accused of Angry Birds mixup on Windows Phone 7

* How many Windows Phone 7 apps will there be at launch?

* Profs bring free "Super Wi-fi" to working class Houston

* Of 1.2 Billion Twitter posts, 71% are ignored

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Here are the shownotes for episode #83 for the Global Geek News Podcast:

Stories:

* Plane finder phone app called an 'aid to terrorism' even though its using public data

* NPD: 13% of iPads are cannibalizing PC sales

* Adidas dumped $10 million iAds campaign because Steve Jobs is a "control freak"

* Cover Flow may cost Apple $208.5 million in damages

* Microsoft insists on patent payments for all Android phones

* Microsoft kills its blogging platform, moves users to Wordpress

* Super-loud TV commercials are one step closer to extinction

* California outlaws maliciously impersonating somebody online

* Texting while driving bans don't work, may actually hurt, study finds

* FBI wants backdoors to all encrypted data transmissions

* EA chickens out, pulls Taliban from Medal of Honor multiplayer

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Here are the shownotes for episode #82 for the Global Geek News Podcast:

Stories:

* Studios prepping $30 movie rental service?

* Blockbuster finally files for bankruptcy

* EU ends investigation into Apple after iOS policy changes

* US busts Google, Apple, Intel over secret employee poaching pact

* Men sentenced to prison for Comcast hijack

* Pirate Bay appeal finally drops anchor in court

* Supreme Court apparently interested in "innocent infringer" RIAA case

* In France, Hadopi reporting begins with only 10,000 IP addresses per day

* Canadian recording industry demands 45% of revenue; then blames "pirates" for no streaming music services

* US lawmakers want to quash pirate websites

* Austrian collection societies want a "you must be a criminal" tax on hard drives

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Here are the shownotes for episode #81 for the Global Geek News Podcast:

Stories:

* Study: In-game ads may actually work

* 72% of adults support gaming laws? Well, kinda...

* Appeals court guts landmark computer privacy ruling

* School agrees to pay student $33,000 after teacher dug through her phone to find private nude photos

* Cuil fails to be acquired

* Google Apps adopts 2-factor authentication

* Swedish Pirate Party fails to enter parliament

* Barnes & Nobel projects $1B in digital revenue, 25% market share by 2013

* US school replaces textbooks with Kindles, students go crazy

* Intel wants to charge $50 to unlock stuff your CPU can already do

* First generation Windows Phone 7s won't be on Verizon or Sprint

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Host: Jeremy Bray & Wesley Faulkner

Here are the shownotes for episode #80 for the Global Geek News Podcast:

Stories:

* Apple is losing 20% of US iPhone 4 sales to Antennagate

* Apple looks to officially close Antennagate on September 30th

* Google Instant will save 350 million hours of user time per year

* Google: mobile queries up 4x in the past year

* Study: Users less interested in 3D TVs after trying them

* GoDaddy up for sale, expected to fetch over $1 Billion

* Court: First sale doctrine doesn't apply to licensed software

* P2P investigations now illegal in Switzerland

* Australian court says headlines aren't copyrightable

* EU Parliament passes anti-ACTA declaration

* "Here you have" e-mail virus spreading fast and wreaking havoc

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Here are the shownotes for episode #79 for the Global Geek News Podcast:

Stories:

* Pirate Bay receives a notice to keep a torrent

* Blockbuster ready to die, plans bankruptcy for mid-September

* Google in talks with major studios to rent movies on YouTube

* Bing now powers Yahoo! search

* Xbox Live price increase coming November 1st

* Sony bans PS3 mod chip users from PSN

* AMD kills ATI brand

* Philly requiring bloggers to pay $300 for a business license

* Court: 4th amendment rights not violated if the police install a GPS device on your vehicle if it isn't in your garage

* FTC upset over fake iPhone app reviews

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Host: Jeremy Bray & Wesley Faulkner

Here are the shownotes for episode #78 for the Global Geek News Podcast:

Stories:

* Geek Squad sends cease & desist to God Squad

* Hulu considering an IPO

* George Lucas announces Star Wars on Blu-ray in 2011

* Justin Bieber tweets enemies phone number to 4.5 million people.

* Facebook launches live streaming channel

* Drunk driver mugshots featured on Facebook

* Study has 34% of iPhone users ready to jump to Verizon

* Researchers claim hackers could figure out your smartphone password with screen smudges

* Developer creates online Windows Phone 7 app generator

* 1 in 5 Americans still don't use the internet

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Host: Jeremy Bray & Wesley Faulkner

On this special, I interview former 1 vs 100 Live (Xbox Live) host, Chris Cashman. We talk about everything from the demise of 1 vs 100 Live to the future of media consumption.