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Alternageek Episode 47: Robotic Dreams

techmonkey — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 00:19:57 +0000

In this episode we talk about Comcast bandwidth caps, Veoh prevailing in infringement lawsuit, iPhone security flaw, RedHat security breach, RedHat Perl bug, Flash/Firefox bug, Google dropping features from Android SDK, Android Market, specs on the Android G1 phone, Internet Explorer 8 beta 2, Mozilla’s Ubiquity and SIMable cell phone unlocking device.

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Alternageek.com Podcast, Episode 46 for the week of September 1st, 2008 – Featuring Linuxchic and TechMonkey.

Alternageek Episode 46: Open Source For The Win

techmonkey — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 17:40:12 +0000

In this episode we talk about the videos we took at the LinuxWorld Expo conference, the recent VMWare 3.5 Update 2 issue, Vista security, a landmark legal decision for Open Source Licenses, Ohio suing Diebold (now Premier Election Solutions) over faulty voting machines, the 10 worst web glitches of 2008 (so far), EFF’s Switzerland ISP packet monitoring tool and T-Mobile offering the first Google Android phone.

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Alternageek.com Podcast, Episode 46 for the week of August 18th, 2008 – Featuring Linuxchic and TechMonkey.

Alternageek Episode 34: Just Monkeying Around

techmonkey — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 14:10:36 +0000

In this week’s episode, TechMonkey talks about the new Wordpress 2.5 release, Comcast’s new top speed Internet service, Aircell getting FAA approval for Wifi on airplanes, Google’s AppEngine announcement and AT&T jumping on the Android bandwagon.

Click here to download this episode in OGG formatAlternaGeek.com Podcast, Episode 34 for the week of April 7th, 2008 – Featuring TechMonkey

Alternageek Episode 29: Tin Foil Hats

techmonkey — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 07:34:12 +0000

In this week’s episode, TechMonkey talks about his new AT&T Uverse Internet TV installation, we cover the Microsoft bid for Yahoo, the cutting of numerous undersea data cables, concerns about Google’s Social API and Android toolkit, Windows Vista SP1 and Podcamp Midwest.Links:

Click here to download this episode in OGG formatAlternaGeek.com Podcast, Episode 29 for the week of February 4th, 2008Featuring Linuxchic & TechMonkey

Twitter reports all is well on the home front

linuxchic — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 02:16:40 +0000

The latest post from Twitter on their blog states:“Update (12/15 4:30p): We’ve received word this issue has been resolved. We’ll continue to watch closely and let you know if anything changes. “Earlier today Twitter reported that the issue with T-Mobile users not being able to send or receive updates via SMS was appearing to be a technical issue between the company that handles the SMS technology for Twitter and T-Mobile. This was a hard road travelled because prior to that update even Twitter was confirming that T-Mobile was blocking communications between customers on the carrier and the web 2.0 service. One question still remains, why did T-Mobile continue to issue email communication to their customers that they were indeed blocking the Twitter short code and why did they treat their customers so poorly?I have heard from many T-Mobile customers prior to today that they chose T-Mobile because of their excellent customer service as well as their forward thinking in the mobile industry. They were one of the first mobile carriers to sign on with Google’s Android open mobile platform, they are already utilizing VoIP technologies and recently rolled out the T-Mobile Hotspot @Home service which allows customers to use approved wifi networks to make calls thus avoiding cell phone minute charges. Once the Twitter/T-Mobile SMS outages were discovered and confirmed, the response they issued was not only shocking but seemed to be completely against their prior service offerings and initiatives. This communication was not an isolated occurrence as it began popping up all over the blogosphere as more customers contacted the company and were issued the same canned response.Thankfully it appears that the technical difficulties between the Twitter SMS short code and T-Mobile’s network have been resolved and all Twitter’s loyal users may resume using their phones to update their accounts in 140 characters or less. What remains to be seen is how T-Mobile will respond to the backlash from the initial communications that were released from the president’s office. While Twitter users are relieved to have their service back they are still shocked and angry about how little their patronage means to their cellphone provider who’s slogan is “Stick Together”.

AlternaGeek Episode 22: Android, Arch, & gOS

techmonkey — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 06:05:10 +0000

This episode we talk about the release of the Android software development kit, CodeNinja gives us a quick review of Arch Linux and we all talk about the new gOS Linux distribution.Additional Links:

gOS overview at Hackosis

Click here to download this episode in OGG formatAlternaGeek.com Podcast, Episode 22 for the week of November 12th, 2007Featuring Linuxchic, TechMonkey & CodeNinja

Alternageek Episode 21: Going Mobile With Google

techmonkey — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 06:29:22 +0000

This episode is a little shorter than normal so Linuxchic has time to prepare for her trip to BlogWorld. Our main topic is the Google announcement about their Open Source Mobile Phone OS named “Android“. We also chat about Utterz and Google Mail’s new IMAP access.Click here to download this episode in OGG formatAlternaGeek.com Podcast, Episode 21 for the week of November 5th, 2007Featuring Linuxchic, TechMonkey & CodeNinja