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SouthGeek Ramble and Review 36 [100100]: That Pic Was So Pants on the Ground!

April 4, 2012
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pants on the ground

In this episode, the pundits discuss Arizona’s proposed law that potentially could make profanity on the net a crime, Apple and Google help law enforcement bypass your lock screen, another Facebook issue when a teacher’s aide is suspended because she wouldn’t provide access to her Facebook account, proposed legislation in the House that would have prevented...

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Carrier IQ – The Bad, The Good, The Ugly

December 6, 2011
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wifi-security

If you haven’t been living under a rock and have read any tech news on the Internet in the past week or so, then you’ve probably heard about the fiasco that is Carrier IQ.  Carrier IQ produces software that is running on millions of cell phone devices from various carriers.  Trevor Eckhart, a security...

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SouthGeek Ramble and Review 18 [10010]: I ate waaay too much turkey!

November 30, 2011
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SG x200with.me

In this episode, the pundits discuss RIM selling big in Indonesia, the rise and fall of bitcoin, Cyber Monday sales were up, NBC Universal showing the strong arm to their vendors in support of SOPA/PIPA, and HP says “our printers are safe from hacking, dammit!” Show notes: Thousands line up in Indonesia to buy...

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SouthGeek Ramble and Review 12: Phrase Your Answer in the Form of a Question

October 19, 2011
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SG x200with.me

In this episode, the pundits discuss Facebook being sued for wiretapping, Verizon Wireless changes its privacy policy – you have to opt out, companies are starting to hire for internal IT position instead of outsourcing, floods in Thailand may cause hard drive prices to go up, Dell and EMC part ways, RIM offers an...

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SouthGeek Ramble and Review 9: Wooden iPads

September 28, 2011
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SG x200with.me

In this episode, the pundits discuss Google’s elusive G-Drive, OnStar says they’re going to keep tracking you after you disconnect, but now they’re not, what is the VPPA and what does it have to do with Netflix and Facebook, Facebook changes announced at the F8 conference last week, Cloudflare turns 1 and the Amazon...

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Amazon Announces Kindle Fire

September 28, 2011
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Amazon Kindle Fire

Amazon announced their new tablet, the Kindle Fire.  It’s seems to be based on the design of the RIM Playbook, which did not perform well at all in the market.  However, this is Amazon and everything they touch turns to gold, right?  We’ll see if that happens with this product. It’s has a 7″...

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RIM still trying to survive – Introducing music downloads on Blackberry

August 22, 2011
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music-note

Research in Motion, apparently trying to keep their numbers up with their Blackberry phones, is rolling out a music service for $5 per month for 50 songs, possibly as early as September. The burning question, of course, is why anyone would pay $5 per month for a limited amount of songs when there are...

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