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I want to thank everyone for participating in the contest for the HP HDX Dragon we received over 25,000 responses to the surveys. The announcement of the winner today does not stop the giveaway. You will want to tune into the Podcast to win all summer long.
Hello, Geek News Central Ohana! I wanted to introduce myself before posting any articles up. My name is James Connors. I’m a student at the Boston University School of Management where I study Business Administration with dual concentrations in Finance and Management Information Systems. But you want to know who I am. I am a technologist at heart. I am
Comcast announced they will also be running a "Test Market" to try and curb the bandwidth hogs from eating up traffic, so everyone can have an enjoyable internet. Chambersburg, PA and Warrenton VA will be the first test areas, with Colorado Springs to follow later this summer. Each test will last only 1 month. The idea will be slightly different
Todd brought up an interesting point in a recent podcast. What gas cost will it take for people to make real changes in their driving habits and fossil fuel usage? Obviously $4 a gallon gas in the U.S. is not it. Todd posited that $14 or $15 a gallon gas would do it. However, some recent studies are showing that
Over the past 6 months I have spent a great deal of time in and around airports and sitting in their departure lounges. While I have been fortunate to have a Red Carpet membership that I pay for, and membership privileges in other Airline lounges through my AMEX Business Platinum what I have found in small airports that don’t have such clubs is pretty interesting.
Where I live in Hawaii I have only 1 choice in broadband. That company is Time Warner. Today they started their trial in Beamount Texas where they are capping customers usage at 5gb and 40gb depending on the broadband plan you are on.
New Sponsor added to the show, hope you will try AIM Call Out link is in the sponsor section of the show notes. I did a live show tonight via Ustream.TV as well as I am on the East Coast. HP HDX Giveaway happens Wed June 4th New Show Sponsor AIM Call Out (Sign up for an Account Today and
I wanted to do a live Geek News Central Tonight. Should be a lot of fun I will be bringing the camera alive at 7:45 Eastern 4:45 Pacific.
Nvidia announced a new processor that can do it all - Play games, hi-def video or surf the web. The best part is it will still promote a long battery life. And the chip is no bigger than a quarter. The Nvidia Tegra 600 and 650 processors are for portable devices that play a host of Multimedia options while maintaining
We have a very interesting survey for you today the computer giveaway is just a few days away. This survey is unique in that I did not come up with any of the questions and some of them are pretty good.
Geek News Central is proud to introduce AIM Call Out as a new sponsor here at the Geek News Central website and the Geek News Central Podcast.
The FTC gave the nod for Carl Icahn to purchase another 1.5 billion in shares of Yahoo. This would give him 59 million shares and 4.3 percent stake in the company. On July 3rd he will be ring leading the proxy battle in hopes for Microsoft to come back to the table with a buyout. In the meantime Yahoo stocks
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