• X-Men Wolverene film leaked a month before release
• Time Warner monthly data caps spread beyond Texas
• Google restores tethering Apps to the Android Marketplace
• Obama gives Queen Elizabeth an iPod
• Playstation 3 2.7 firmware sports in game text chat and external video storage
• Verizon vows more 4G coverage than 3G
• Survey:  Workers are more worried about colleagues being laid off than themselves
• iPhone 3.0 beta 2 gets jailbroken
• Netflix hits 2 billion movie rentals
• Gmail turns 5, still in Beta

Cool Link of the Day:  The iPhone as designed by Leonardo da Vinci

Bargain of the Day:  Seasons 1-10 of E.R. for $163.49

Host: Jeremy “pcnerd37″ Bray
Geek News Daily #50

Podcast Feed:

• Spam returns to 94% of all email
• Google Chrome coming to the Mac by fall?
• Opera Mobile 9.7 to have support for Flash, Google Gears, and server-side compression
• Chinese cyberespionage network runs across 103 nations
• Sony Drops the price of the Playstation 2
• ABC/Disney looking to join Hulu?
• Skype coming to the iPhone on Tuesday, Blackberry in May
• 84% of people would prefer to have more blog readers than Twitter followers
• China gets free, ad-supported music from Google
• American Airlines bringing Wifi to 300 planes
• Netflix upping Blu-ray fees from $1/mo to $3/mo

Cool Link of the Day:  LEGO Battlestar Galactica tribute could probably destroy a Cylon base ship.

Bargain of the Day:  $200 off white MacBook ($799 AR)

Host: Jeremy “pcnerd37″ Bray
Geek News Daily #49

Podcast Feed:

• Rumor:  iTunes may get streaming movies
• Network management amendment failed to make it into the stimulus package
• Dell starts selling dual-boot laptops
• Russian and US satellites collide
• Pioneer to leave the TV business in March 2010 to focus on audio
• Data tethering is coming to the Palm Pre
• Southwest Airlines offers free wifi…for now
• Follow the Pirate Bay trial on Twitter
• Google’s Book settlement pays authors $60 per scanned book
• Vizio drops out of plasma TVs
• Obama makes the June 12th analog kill date official
• Blockbuster Total Access to offer games for $5
• Palm OS is dead
• Texas judge orders site to identify annonymous trolls and flamers

Cool Link of the Day:  Abominable Snow Shuttle

Bargain of the Day:  Free stuff!

Host: Jeremy “pcnerd37″ Bray
Geek News Daily #48

Podcast Feed:

• Apple stopped multitouch on Android
• Twitter to possibly start charging companies for extra features
• Teens spend 31 hours a week online
• McCartney says labels are stopping the Beatles from coming to iTunes
• Sirius XM looks to be going bankrupt
• 40% of tv stations will abandon analog broadcasts next week
• Add your location to your signature in Gmail
• Authors Guild claims the Kindle 2 text-to-speach is illegal
• Study finds terrible conditions at Microsoft, Dell ODM factory
• New iPhone App DRM claims to thawrt pirates…for now
• Microsoft gives Vista approval for the ION platform
• Dianne Feinstein hopes to kill net neutrality in stimulus bill
• Driver using laptop kills a family of 6

Cool Link of the Day:  Astroid PC case mod

Bargain of the Day:  Corsair Flash Voyager 8GB USB drive for $8.99 AR

Host: Jeremy “pcnerd37″ Bray
Geek News Daily #47

Podcast Feed:

• Teen assults mother with a taco for unplugging his Xbox 360
• Sweeden considering police action against file sharers
• FCC investigates Comcast’s VoIP traffic
• Playstation 3 gets a photo gallery app and more DivX support in new 2.60 firmware
• Google ads showing up on IsoHunt cause a controversy,
• Kentucky court overturns gambling domain seizure on appeal
• Obama looking at Open Source
• SEC investigates Apple over Steve Job’s health disclosure
• All major Canadian ISPs slow p2p traffic
• Facebook gets 1.5 million Obama related status changes from CNN
• Twitter passes Digg in internet traffic

Cool Link of the Day:  Obama Presidentail Inauguration in LEGOs

Bargain of the Day:  Polaroid High Definition Digital Camcorder for $134.99

Host: Jeremy “pcnerd37″ Bray
Geek News Daily #46

Podcast Feed:

• Verizon jumps on the femtocell bandwagon
• Watch the Presidential Inauguration online
• Inauguration to bring cell networks to their knees
• Don’t commit a felony and then google the crime
• Blackberry app store accepting applications
• TechCrunch shows off internet tablet prototype
• Study:  Filesharing has positive economic effects
• Microsoft SkyBox to be the Mobile Me of Windows Mobile
• Judge: 17,000 downloads does not equal 17,000 lost sales
• 37% of P2P users say they would ignore disconnection threats

Cool Link of the Day:  Stealth bomber shaped motorcycle

Bargain of the Day:  13 Months of Xbox Live for $30

Host: Jeremy “pcnerd37″ Bray
Geek News Daily #45

Podcast Feed:

• Google gives employees G1 phones instead of cash for their Christmas bonus
• The last major VHS retailer abandons the format
• Garmin to launch an Android phone in 2009
• Windows XP gets four more months to live
• Teen file-sharing up 46%
• First internet-created feature film to debut next month
• Scientists find an undiscovered forest and a several new species thanks to Google Earth.

Cool Link of the Day:  60,000 LEGO piece Star Wars diorama with LEDs and Footprints

Host: Jeremy “pcnerd37″ Bray
Geek News Daily #44

Podcast Feed:

• Nintendo makes $6 on every Wii
• iPhone takes 16.6% of the world smartphone market
• Windows Vista SP2 fixes and features announced, the beta hits this week
• List of most downloaded iPhone apps released
• Charge you laptop with your feet
• T-Mobile soft data caps to return [unconfirmed]
• T-Mobile G1 net access can’t be turned off, resulting in huge roaming fees
• Blockbuster looks to stream movies to Windows Mobile via Live Mesh
• Nokia unveils N97
• PS3 2.53 Firmware released
• Pioneer shows off 16 layer, 400GB Blu-ray disk which is compatible with current players

Cool Link of the Day:  Bookshelf splits to store extra books

Bargain of the Day:  Lyon by Washburn electric guitar with a 5 watt amp and instructional dvd for $89.99 + $5 shipping

Host: Jeremy “pcnerd37″ Bray
Geek News Daily #43

• Restaurateur tracks down bill dodgers on Facebook
• Gmail comes to Google Desktop
• Google Earth used in Indian terrorist attacks
• gOS “Cloud” instant-on OS comes to Gigabyte touchscreen netbook
• Mac hits record 8.87% internet share, Windows drops below 90%
• Firefox passes 20% market share while IE drops below 70%
• Pownce bought by Six Apart, to be shut down in 2 weeks
• People buy used computers to salvage Windows XP
• Boeing airborne laser weapon fires for the first time
• Nokia won’t buy Yahoo!
• Apple tells users they need antivirus software
• Xbox 360 outsells PS3 3:1 on Black Friday

Cool Link of the Day:  USB floppy disk concept

Bargain of the Day: Garmin Nuvi 270 for $129.99

Host: Jeremy “pcnerd37″ Bray
Geek News Daily #42

• Microsoft and Yahoo in talks for $20 billion deal
• Despite reports, the Apple App Store has not reached 10,000 apps
• Netflix challenges hackers to come up with a better recommendation engine for $1 million
• Blockbuster’s OnDemand service coming to Blu-ray players
• Super secret London tunnel for sale
• Refurbished Kindles show up for $360
• Study:  Internet searches boost the brain
• Windows 7 to allow graphics acceleration from the CPU
• Vista SP2 set for an April launch to manufactures?
• Idiots call Wrath of the Lich King fastest selling game of all time

Cool Link of the Day:  Backyard observatory rivals Hubble’s images

Bargain of the Day:  Ebay selling a 2009 Corvette and more for a starting bid of $1 and FREE shipping!

Host: Jeremy “pcnerd37″ Bray
Geek News Daily #41