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Those of you who have a Kindle might have a refund coming your way, eventually. This is a result of a recent antitrust lawsuit settlement between Amazon and the ebook publishers that were named in the lawsuit: Hachette, HarperCollins, Macmillan, Penguin, and Simon & Schuster, and their many subsidiaries. Amazon.com has started sending email to some of their customers to
Live here in Texas have a great show for you tonight absolute mother load of Tech. Subscribe Today: Audio | Video (HD) | Mobile Video | iTunes | Zune Download the Audio Show File Follow me on Google+ Follow @geeknews on Twitter Geek News Central Facebook Page Show Hotline 24/7 1-619-342-7365 or e-mail geeknews@gmail.com Links to articles covered in this
Yesterday Austrian daredevil Felix Baumgartner ascended to the dizzying height of 128,100 feet (24.2 miles) above the earth in a two hour balloon ride. He then came back down in a considerably faster way by stepping out of his capsule onto a tiny platform, giving a salute, and jumping. The event broke many records, including highest jump, longest distance freefall and highest
Perhaps you have heard about a service called FreedomPop that aims at freeing you from paying for internet service, on a limited basis at least. The service was launched by Skype founder Niklas Zennstrom and has been in the works for some time now. Today, they quietly began sending out emails for a private beta test. "FreedomPop is LIVE and we're accepting
Not long after I purchased my iPad 2, I ended up finding a Bluetooth keyboard case combination on a discount table at a Flying J truck stop priced for $15 dollars. For that low price, I figured I couldn't go wrong. Unfortunately, you do get what you pay for. The keyboard quality was very low. It was extremely difficult to
While I was in San Francisco a few weeks back, I learned about Taskrabbit. It's a great way to get the help you need for certain projects. My friend, Adria was using this service to get shirts wrapped so she could hand them out at an event. What is TaskRabbit I talked with Jamie Viggiano, head of corporate Marketing for
This morning The Next Web reported that a video had been posted, but quickly taken down, showing new voice control features that are being developed for Google TV. This is on top of the earlier announcement that Google Play movies, TV shows and music were also going to be integrated into the platform. The site reported that they had seen
Back to my normal show routine here which is fine with me. Planning for a host of events is underway will talk about that along with my upcoming road shows. Subscribe Today: Audio | Video (HD) | Mobile Video | iTunes | Zune Download the Audio Show File Follow me on Google+ Follow @geeknews on Twitter Geek News Central Facebook
Yesterday Mozilla took the unprecedented step of pulling down a version of Firefox and warning those who had already installed it to stop using the browser. The move came after a rather bad security flaw was found in the software that would allow a malicious site to potentially be able to determine which websites users had visited and obtain access to
Rovio Entertainment is getting ready to release Angry Birds Star Wars. It is going to be available on November 8, 2012. I'm beginning to think that Star Wars is the “bacon” of geekdom. Everything tastes better with bacon. Adding just a little bit of Star Wars, to just about anything, can only enhance it. If you like Angry Birds, then
Us Brits are pretty good at inventing stuff. Telephone and TV; radar and jet engine; antibiotics and vaccination; pneumatic tyres and hovercraft; these are all great British inventions or discoveries. And don't forget that new-fangled worldwide web thingy from Sir Tim Berners-Lee. We might be a nation of shopkeepers but we're also a nation of cracking inventors. Consequently, I'm delighted to
App.net is a Twitter replacement which is based on a subscription. I joined 5 days ago. The cost is $36.00 which is a drop of about 25 percent from the originally $50.00 for the subscription. There is also a $5.00 monthly subscription available. Under App.net you own all your content If you decide to cancel your service you have 60
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