Dell announced this week that it was making a voluntary recall of Dell branded batteries. Which in actual fact have Sony cells in them. The following is taken from the recall site:
Dell has identified a potential issue associated with certain batteries sold with Dell Latitude™, Inspiron™, XPS™ and Dell Precision Mobile Workstation™ notebook computers. In [...]

Don’t worry it is here at last, we have been running a bit late this week… more on the show. The continually evolving and changing Global Geek Podcast is proud to present for you our 15th show… Phew!
A special thank you to all the people that rocked up last week and commented on the show [...]

This must have slipped under my radar. We have talked about this on the podcast and were watching for developments. It is a bit old this news but not much must have been said about it or I missed it.
Reported on the 9th of June was the fact that the U.S. Court of Appeals upheld [...]

Interesting that I have thought about this but never really known the answer. I use screen shots in blog posts, especially ones of names of web sites when doing reviews. I have often thought about this possibly being a breach of copyright, more so in regards to the trademark being reproduced.
Lifehacker thought this might be [...]

We all use email and we all have some idea what it is. But I found this great brief article explaining exactly what it is and some of the lesser known terms.
We know what email is but do you know what IMAP is or MIME types and what do they mean to you as a [...]

Bit late with this one, but between the wiring in the house eaten by a mouse and birthdays I’ve been busy. But a day or so ago Skype in a very stealth like manner released a “pre-beta” of Skype 2.6!
Yup you read that right: a pre-pre release, release… did that make sense? As usual it [...]

You have to laugh at just how seriously Internet Explorer is being taken in the tech community… I just can’t wait till Vista comes out - imagine the material then. Enjoy.

It is so good to see that we are in browser wars again. The choice out there is staggering now. We have Firefox 2 in [...]

How is this for an idea: a company that aims to provide tech support for Aussie’s!

Gizmo is an Australian company that provides comprehensive in-home or phone technical support for a wide range of technologies used in the home. As the computer and its related gadgets becomes more and more part of our everyday lives, Gizmo [...]

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Huge show this week. We still have the news and the big interview with Dick Hardt, CEO of Sxip Identity, definately worth checking out.
As a side note this is the first podcast that has been encoded at 64kbps, for you that means smaller [...]

This weeks show is massive! We did our first interview, we had a different format for the news (time issue!). The interview was with Dick Hardt; CEO of Sxip Identity. Sxip Identity specializes in building simple, secure, and open Identity 2.0 solutions for the Web. Dick and his company are on the cutting edge of [...]