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So in early news out today from built an exciting and powerful media platform that complements Warner Bros’s mission to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful TorrentFreak Warner Bros has decided to buy the Pirate Bay as they have "built an exciting and powerful media platform that complements Warner Bros’s mission to organize the world’s
Tomorrow is April 1st. Besides being the Conflicker worm deploy date, it is also a "square day." We had a square day already this year, March 3, and another on March 5. A "square day" is one in which, with the application of a little mathematical numerology, you can see a square root. March 3rd in mathematical terms is 03-03-09,
Austin Texas meet-up this coming Saturday.. RSVP today geeknews@gmail.com Well folks home long enough to get some clean clothes then I am headed to Texas. Will be looking for around 100 listeners to participate in some new media panels, will advise when I am ready to have those panels. Show Sponsors keep the lights on Please Support the Show Sponsors!
The category of traditional encyclopedias and reference material has changed How true that is. Microsoft will stop selling the Encarta software in June and the site will disband on October 31st with Encarta: Japan going dark on Dec. 31st. If you have Encarta Premium, you may be eligible for a refund.Tech Support will still honor support calls until 2012. It
At 8:30 PM your time, Earthhour.org is encouraging you to turn off your lights to say "Yes! I care about the Earth". Is turning off lights the answer? It's all about global warming. We use too much resources which release Carbon emissions and therefore, warm up the planet. Our children will then be living in a ecological nightmare. There are
How many of the geeks out there are safe from Conflicker, a nasty little worm set to go all doomsday on us on April 1st? Hopefully, 99.9% of us are (there's never a 100% guarantee). I know I am, as is every machine on my home network and that I have control over at work. But what about those family
Only took me three tries to get this one in the can. Very late midnight recording but we had a lot of fun. Plenty of people on ustream as well kept me company in the late night hours. Watch for the live streams this weekend from our retreat weekend. Show Sponsors keep the lights on Please Support the Show Sponsors!
Okay, I'm having a little panic attack, which may turn into a big panic attack shortly. I came home from work and opened up my laptop (that had just been at work with me), and it rebooted itself (!!) and came up with an error message saying my copy of Windows Vista was not genuine and that I would not
Facebook pushed out a serious update to its interface last week, much to the anger and upset of its users. I'm one of those people. I lost access to one of the things I use the most, the News Feed, and it also stopped auto-updating. That was my biggest complaint. My second-biggest complaint was the "highlights" section on the right-hand
Blockbuster has announced a partnership with once-dominant Tivo to distribute videos via Tivo's established service. Blockbuster has been looking for an edge against arguably the biggest giant in the mail-distributed video arena - Netflix. Netflix already offers video downloads and some on-demand video to XBox 360's as well as to Roku boxes and some Blu-Ray players. Blockbuster's deal is the
I was perusing TechCrunch this morning and found Academic Earth, a hulu-like resource for academic lectures. I had been using the online lectures at MIT for several years with my kids. That has been a good resource for those homeschooling high-school-age students. But Richard Ludlow, once a struggling math student, has put together Academic Earth, pulling together all of the
Ok Folks I am headed to the East Coast first stop Columbus Ohio for a podcaster meetup on Thursday. Also if you are Blubrry.com user/podcaster we have a survey for you as we are getting ready to improve the site design and need some feedback. Show Sponsors keep the lights on Please Support the Show Sponsors! [Save 10% off any
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