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May 2012

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Layoffs at BioWare and 38 Studios

Not one, but two, gaming companies have done some employee layoffs this week. Both BioWare and 38 Studios have let some, or all, of their employees go. As someone who enjoys playing video games, I find this to be sad news. No one wants to be unemployed, and especially not from something that many gamers would consider to be a

GNC-2012-05-24 #768 Bandwidth Running on Empty

The past show winner declined a second prize so I have re-awarded the prize to Jerry Mcfalls with tonight's prize going to Tom with the Comcast address. Wining is easy just sign up for the shows newsletter.. May is listener appreciation month and we are giving prizes away every show. Tonight I am pretty pleased with the road show.. All we

Siri Storage Habits Have Privacy Advocates Buzzing

The Internets are quietly humming with the recent realization that Apple is, uh, absorbing your “personal” data if you use Siri – the voice-activated personal assistant (of sorts) that lives in the iPhone 4S (launched in October 2011). What does that mean, precisely? Well, according to information disseminated by the ACLU, Apple’s privacy policy in relation to the Siri software

RIAA Says LimeWire Owes it $72 Trillion

Around four years ago, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) filed a lawsuit against LimeWire. The RIAA was suing on behalf of several music labels. In short, the RIAA claimed that LimeWire's P2P software, which allowed people to download and distribute copyrighted songs for free, caused the music industry to lose millions of dollars. The RIAA won that case.

Google Has 23 of the Internet’s Top 100 Web Sites

Everyone probably knows that Google has grown from a startup search engine into one of the largest and most profitable companies in the world, but if you begin checking into where some of their properties rank you will be amazed by just how massive and powerful they are.  The fact is that 23 of the world's top 100 web sites

SpokenLayer

Many of us have trouble keeping up with our RSS feeds, there are too many and we don’t have time. For some people who are dyslexic or have sight problems reading can be difficult and frustrating. What if you could listen to your feeds. That is the idea behind SpokenLayer a new app for the iPhone. Unlike other similar applications

Cosmonaut Capacitive Stylus Review

I'm not a fan of capacitive touch screens as they are the user interface of a 5 year old, which is great for finger-painting but useless if you want to do anything precise, such as write normally or position a cursor between two letters. And multitouch is over-rated: I'd rather be able to place one point exactly than five blurry

GNC-2012-05-21 #767 HD Mobile Broadcast Studio

Congrats to Sonya Jensen for winning a iPod Nano I think lightning has struck twice here as it appears a husband and wife may have won the last two contests either that or it is a heck of a coincidence. .. Tonight you can win by simply reviewing and commenting of the video of the show. I think it will

Google Expands Gmail Search, Is It Too Much?

Google today announced better search integration for Gmail, their popular web-based email service.  The new and improved version will have a more thorough auto-complete feature thanks to better crawling of the messages in your email.  Better search sounds great, but is it really better or is it just a more complete privacy invasion? While I don't have any real problem

SpaceX Launch Saturday Was a No-Go Launch This Morning is a Go!

Just a few days ago, SpaceX attempted to launch their Dragon spacecraft into space. This would have been the very first commercial flight to the International Space Station. My husband and I were watching this launch as the live video coverage was streamed through LiveStream. It was very surreal to hear the countdown reach zero and realize that the spacecraft

New GoDaddy Customers Save 25% on First Order!

Sponsor Message: I have a 25% off deal for new GoDaddy customers that runs through the end May that can be used to on their first order use Promo code 25MAY3. This is a fantastic was to get a huge savings upon opening your account. So load the shopping cart up with a domain and hosting account to save big

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