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April 2008

48 posts

ADM Releases Guidelines and Standards for Comment

The Association for Downloadable Media has released their Advertisement Unit Standards and Download Measurement Guidelines to the ADM membership and the new media community at Large.

ADM Releasing Standards Documents for Public Comment

Angelo Mandato my CIO at RawVoice will be one of many ADM members presenting today at AdTech in San Francisco. The panel Angelo is slated to participate in will be the culmination of several months of work on the podcast / new media measurement standards document.

The End of Typing as We Know It?

Well, not exactly. In fact, not even close. Much discussion circles around audio-to-text conversion, especially in the disability services community. Bill Gates even believes (and has believed for more than 10 years) that we are on the very cusp of making audio into text a reality for everyone. That could mean no more typing! Unfortunately, the technology really isn’t there

GNC-2008-04-15 #365 Tech News and Science

Kind of a weird show tonight.Lots of varied content and of course a healthy dose of tech news and information. Thanks for your support of our new Sponsor Block Buster. Please Support Show Sponsors: BLOCKBUSTER Total Access click to activate coupon for $10 off your first month. Special Promotion code 20% off on 1 Year Shared Hosting Plans use Godaddy

Japanese tech ads

Other countries culture and humour can be hard to understand. Any of you that have been to Japan or seen any Japanese TV will know that that it can deliver equal measures of genius, bizarre and funny. Network World has put together 10 Japanese ads mostly advertising tech items that each have their own set of weird or funny. The

Non-exploding batteries

Gizmodo is reporting on a new battery under development that while based on Lithium technology does not have the same (admittedly minor) risk of exploding that the current batteries have. At the moment it is a ways off from hitting the street, about 3 years, and doesn't hold the same level of charge as current batteries do. The alternative option

The Unsecured Secure Computer

Much is said in tech circles about how you must protect your equipment from viruses, spyware, adware, Trojans, you name it. I have recently completed a three-year experiment with an unprotected laptop, that I used every day, and on multiple networks. Here’s what I started with: - A Gateway M275 convertible laptop running XP Tablet edition in Administrator mode as

We Humbly Interupt for this Introduction…

I wanted to take a moment to introduce myself before I posted my first entry to Geek News Central’s blog. I’m a long-time listener and fan of the Geek News Central podcasts, and a sometime caller and commenter, and branching out into writing a few tech blog entries seemed to be a smart step to take.

RawVoice Looking to Hire Advertising Sales Agent

Have you just been let go from DoubleClick, or do you have Internet Advertising Sales Experience? We have an immediate position available. Part and or Full Time sales agents needed.

#364 1:17:33

GNC-2008-04-11

Lots to share and great listener feedback at the end. Almost time for a Wikipedia entry on Todd'isms. Just kidding but fun had by all on this show.. New Sponsor are Well I want to welcome Blockbuster to the show Please Support Show Sponsors: BLOCKBUSTER Total Access click to activate coupon for $10 off your first month. Special Promotion code

Some days you just want to scream!!!

Have you ever had one of those days where you feel like you are dragging a 25 Ton truck up a hill? Or feel like you are beating your head against the wall.

I should have upgraded to Vista Sooner!

Like many others I heard the horror stories of running Vista. One month into using Vista and all I can say is why did I wait so long? I am normally a early adopter but I made the mistake of sitting on the fence this time.

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