At the TechCrunch Winter Party that took place in San Francisco last week, there was a pinata bashing that signified the death of the much maligned awards show, The Crunchies, which after a decade of highs and lows has finally been shuttered by Verizon, TechCrunch’s new parent company. Launched in 2007 by legendary TechCrunch founder […]
Samuel from Kopi joined us for the CES TPN Live coverage. Kopi focuses are on live charging with three different products. The flagship product is the K_Bar, which is a power strip with USB plugs. These plugs will determine what type of device is being plugged into the unit, so it can send the maximum […]
Well, it’s been a fun run, but it’s time to change up the show schedule. After some thought, I decided to say goodbye to the Geekazine Weekly Podcast (sort of). In two weeks, the show will be re-branded with a new direction. So I ask you – the listener. What do you want to hear […]
The BBC reports that a phishing scam involving torrents has been uncovered. Their headline implies that it targets Twitter. It doesn’t, not specifically. Twitter seems to have been responsible for revealing it. The way it worked was really quite clever. After a while, the malware would phone home with the list of usernames and passwords. […]
While listening to a story about the Pirate Bay verdict yesterday evening, I started to wonder where the entertainment industry gets its estimates of “lost revenue due to file sharing.” One of the witnesses for the recording industry testifying in the Pirate Bay case said that file sharing costs the recording industry “billions.” I am […]