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  • How Tech Companies Apologize [comic]

    How companies interact with customers and the press has always been something that has fascinated me.  I find it interesting how different one company handles a situation compared to others in similar situations.  Some companies take the approach that the customer is always right while others take the please don’t sue us although we don’t…

  • The roast of Facebook [video]

    I’ve always greatly enjoyed watching the Friar’s Club roasts in the past.  It is amazing that they can get away with airing some of that stuff on Comedy Central.  Well, this might not be the Friar’s Club roasting Facebook but it as just as good.  Instead we have other Web 2.0 sites roasting it although…

  • Android Just Hungry T-Shirt [pic]

    Like many millions of other people, I am the owner of an Android based phone.  While I can’t call myself a happy owner, I still think this Android t-shirt is pretty funny and just plain cool.  It does an entertaining job of showing just how the OS is taking a bite out of Apple’s smartphone…

  • Global Geek News Podcast #94: The final show

    Here are the shownotes for episode #94 for the Global Geek News Podcast. Subscribe on iTunes Download the MP3 Help support us with a $5/mo subscription! Stories: Larry Page to replace Eric Schmidt as Google CEO Study confirms imminent death of the paper phone book Facebook and Twitter ‘make us less human and isolate us…

  • Prevent duplicate tabs in Google’s Chrome Browser

    I may not be a fan of Google Chrome like many other tech enthusiasts (I am a proud Opera user with Firefox as my fall back browser for when something won’t work), but this extension found by the folks over at Tekzilla is likely to help reduce the headaches of Chrome users.  If you are…

  • Get instant search in Firefox with InstantFirefox [video]

    The awesome crew over at Tekzilla has found a great little Firefox extension called InstantFirefox that brings Google’s new Instant Search functionality to Firefox.  You can now type in your address bar and get instant search results from various sites which is really cool!  Check out the video below for all the details.