• 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:

• 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:

• 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

• Flash demonstrated on Android based G1
• Android hacked to be a garage door remote
• Apple releases firmware fix for MacBook trackpad problems
• Get out of your Sprint contract with no early termination fees
• Facebook rolls out Verified App program while making themselves an interesting revenue model
• Chinese pirates crack Blu-ray DRM to start selling HD disks
• Nintendo attempts to kill homebrew on the Wii yet again
• The New Xbox Experience is available for all who signed up, everybody else tomorrow
• Jerry Yang steps down as Yahoo CEO

Cool Link of the Day: 20-Foot-long Lego battlecruiser

Bargain of the Day:  Corsair Flash Voyager 16GB Flash Drive for $20 after rebate and free shipping!

Host: Jeremy “pcnerd37″ Bray
Geek News Daily #39

• The Pirate Bay attempts to get into the Guinness Book of World Records
• Flash coming to Windows Mobile 6.1 but not the iPhone
• Tivo now lets your order Dominoes to complete the couch potato experience
• Indian lunar probe smashes into the moon
• Artist looks to replace lost eye with webcam
• U.S. military develops honeycomb tires
• Google Docs has 1% of office market
• Apple sued for hairline cracks on the iPhone 3G

Cool link of the day:  Bacon iPhone sleeve

Bargain of the day:  $140 Memorex Blu-ray player

Host: Jeremy “pcnerd37″ Bray
Geek News Daily #38

• Apple patents OS X Dock
• Eye-Fi Manager update adds support for Twitter and RSS
• Halo 3 Recon announced
• New Xbox Experience to launch on November 19th for Xbox 360
• PSP gets Dual Shock 3 support through PSP Plus
• PSP Store announced, to launch October 15th
• ASUS planning touchscreen EEE pc within six months
• Google to offer RSS feeds for search results
• RealNetworks banned from selling RealDVD software likely forever
• Major Romanian ISP blocks Bittorrent site
• South Korea seeks to curb online anonymity
• Netflix to charge an extra $1/mo for Blu-ray rentals

Cool Link of the Day:  Disappearing pool table

Host: Jeremy “pcnerd37″ Bray
Geek News Daily #37