Geek News CentralGeek News Central is technical weblog for Geeks. We Spin tech for the common man. With a twice weekly tech podcastGNC-2008-06-19 384 Cool Giveaway on the Next Show!- June 20, 2008 Lot's of tech content tonight and I also talk about a cool giveaway we are going to have on the show I record live on Monday! If you want to see the video from the show that was recorded in my hotel room check out the link below. Link to Complete Show Notes with all News Links Please Support my Show Sponsors!: AIM Call Out (Sign up for an Account Today and Give it a Try!) Try GoToMeeting free for 30 days at GoToMeeting.comtechpodcasts. No credit card needed. Save 10% off on any order at...http://www.geeknewscentral.com/archives/008045.html Google Street View Showing more than Expected- June 20, 2008 A few weeks ago it was a guy in Chicago waiving a gun. Now it's possible Hookers in California. It's turning into a Where's Waldo game - except it's "Who's on Street View" I wonder how many hours it takes to scan the Google website to find something interesting to report about. The only thing more hilarious is the fact that Google is not looking at what they are taking pictures of. There are even some people that, when they see the Google car coming, they plan a last minute improvisation....http://www.geeknewscentral.com/archives/008043.html Live Podcast Recorded Tonight Check out the Video!- June 20, 2008 I will be starting a live edition of the Geek News Central Podcast shortly. I will Twitter about 10 minutes befor I start. Or just stay tuned.http://www.geeknewscentral.com/archives/008042.html Bandwidth Caps used to Force more TV Watching!- June 19, 2008 Let’s see here. Time Warner Cable provides Internet and Cable Television Service. TV is very profitable for the cable company. The Internet is not because they cannot control it. Put in place bandwidth caps and you scare people into stopping how much time they spend on the Internet for the fear of going over their bandwidth caps. So enter Time Warner and those with the highest speed service fully employed will spend about a $1.00 every 6 minutes or so once you bust the cap. Time Warner...http://www.geeknewscentral.com/archives/008041.html Hilton Hotel Chains Internet Access and other Issues!- June 19, 2008 Over the past six months I have been traveling a great deal. I have stayed around 40 days in a variety of Hilton properties and another 20 days in Marriot hotel chains. I usually stay in Hilton properties to gain reward points. Over the past three or four stays at Hilton properties on the east coast, I have been completely frustrated with Internet connectivity and other issues. I will obtain Hilton’s highest VIP status before the end of July which shows I have...http://www.geeknewscentral.com/archives/008040.html Verizon Please bring FIOS to Hawaii! PLEASE!!- June 18, 2008 After hearing todays news of Verizon offering some insane speeds to FIOS customers in the 16 states that they have the service available in. I really just wanted to stick my head in a pillow and scream. Can my headline be anymore obvious Our broadband service provider Time Warner which has a Virtual Monopoly in Hawaii is getting ready to impose ridiculous bandwidth limits on us. If there was any market that is prime for the service Hawaii is it. But the problem remains..http://www.geeknewscentral.com/archives/008039.html Flickr Founders Flee From Yahoo- June 18, 2008 TechCrunch is reporting that Flickr Co-founder Caterina Fake left her position last Friday and other Co-founder Stewart Butterfields' last day will be July 12th. They will be replaced by Sara Wood and Kakul Srivastava. Flickr started in 2004 as a photo sharing and gaming site. The photo sharing end took real flight and Yahoo purchased it in 2005. Two years later, Yahoo consolidated it's Photos page into Flickr. Butterfield and fake are husband and wife. It makes one really wonder if there...http://www.geeknewscentral.com/archives/008038.html Where have all the women gone- June 17, 2008 Many of the readers of this blog will be familiar with working in male dominated environments. Personally while I have seen much greater numbers of young women entering the tech sector than when I first started, this does not seem to have translated to a significant overall rise in female participation. Computerworld has an article on a new Harvard study that finds there is a large percentage of women in IT that completely drop out of the industry after about 10 years. While it is not too...http://www.geeknewscentral.com/archives/008037.html GNC-2008-06-16 383 Live show on the Road fun for all- June 17, 2008 Fun Live show tonight held on Mogulus, still working out the show management on that. But had a bit of a dark room. Explained in detail on the show. Relaxed show tonight but lots of fun for all. Link to Full Show Notes and all News Links Please Support my Show Sponsors!: AIM Call Out (Sign up for an Account Today and Give it a Try!) Try GoToMeeting free for 30 days at GoToMeeting.comtechpodcasts. No credit card needed. Save 10% off on any order at GoDaddy.com! Use Code Todd Twitter Me...http://www.geeknewscentral.com/archives/008036.html Live Podcast Tonight- June 17, 2008 He folks Ustream.TV was not working so I am switching over to Mogulus tonight hope you like the show. Show page on Mogulus is www.mogulus.comgeeknews Show is wrapped up for tonight but I will have another live show on Thursday!http://www.geeknewscentral.com/archives/008034.html |