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Here are the show highlights for episode #39 of the Geek News Daily podcast for November 18, 2008.

• 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

Here are the show highlights for episode #37 of the Geek News Daily podcast for October 9, 2008.

• 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

Here are the show highlights for episode #22 of the Geek News Daily Podcast for February 11, 2008:

• Starbucks: AT&T bringing free Wi-Fi to Starbucks (finally!)
• Clear Channel to FCC: XM/Sirius is illegal, but let’s deal
• Yahoo’s official response is: Nohoo! More Cashoo!
• Microsoft buys Danger
• Wal-Mart gets dirt cheap on digital-to-analog TV converters
• Bluetooth to piggyback on Wi-Fi
• Netflix chooses Blu-ray format over HD-DVD
• Polarioid technology fades out

Host: Jeremy “pcnerd37″ Bray
Geek News Daily #22

Here are the show highlights for episode #14 of the Geek News Daily Podcast for January 23, 2008:

• Internet Explorer 8 to have 3 rendering engines
• W3C releases the first draft of HTML 5
• Microsoft rolls out Zune 2.3 software update
• Apple records record $1.58B profit
• KDE going cross-platform with Windows and Mac OS X support
• iPhone’s 1.1.3 update is ready for SDK applications
• Sony delays Skype PSP and microphone launch indefinitely
• Blu-ray players grab 93% of market after Warner went Blu

Host: Jeremy “pcnerd37″ Bray
Geek News Daily #14

Here are the show highlights for episode #12 of the Geek News Daily Podcast for January 18, 2008:

• New Blu-Ray 2.0 spec makes PS3 the most future-proof player
• Bloggers suffer major outage, not happy
• FCC to test new “white space” wireless broadband devices
• Anti-spammer fined $60K for DNS lookup ‘hack’
• Myspace Russia launches; Myspace Turkey coming
• Yahoo asks employees to turn in computers
• US approves standards to keep electric grid hacker-free
• $70,000 industrial robot modded to fire flameballs

Host: Jeremy “pcnerd37″ Bray
Geek News Daily #12