Here are the show highlights for episode #17 of the Geek News Daily Podcast for January 29, 2008: Cobalt blue Nintendo DS arriving next month LG Rumor phones get firmware update P2P users blast Comcast in FCC proceeding TechCrunch endorses Barack Obama and John McCain Germans may soon have zero access to online file sharing [...]

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Here are the show highlights for episode #16 of the Geek News Daily Podcast for January 28, 2008: Researchers announce ’100%’ accuracy in facial recgonition Antipiracy investigators un afoul in Swiss law in P2P sweep eBay acquires Fraud Sciences for $169 million Major labels deny signing deals with Qtrax, downloading music via P2P still illegal [...]

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Here are the show highlights for episode #15 of the Geek News Daily Podcast for January 24, 2008: Soutwest Airlines testing satellite broadband internet access American Airlines to join mile-high WiFi club Goodbye, 30-second song clips. Last.fm offers limited full-track streaming and moves towards subscriptions FTC defents Ethernet, forces patent troll back under bridge Facebook [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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Here are the show highlights for episode #11 of the Geek News Daily Podcast for January 17, 2008: Exonerated RIAA defendant scores double victory in court Storm Worm: A Valentines gift that keeps on giving Yahoo Implements OpenID Loopt launches mobile location based application platform Confirmed: Watch iTunes rentals forever! Vulnerability turns MS Excel into [...]

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Here are the show highlights for episode #10 of the Geek News Daily Podcast for January 16, 2008: Microsoft seeks patent on office “spy” software Amazon’s free shipping costing €1,000 per day in France Sun to acquire mySQL Spore is coming to Mac in 2008 Dreamhost overbills customers $7.5 Million; Uses Homer Simpson to deliver [...]

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Here are the show highlights for episode #9 of the Geek News Daily Podcast for January 15, 2008: FCC officially opens proceeding on Comcast’s P2P throttling Myspace to let parents block children from joining Video ads are planned for grocery carts Twitter fails the Macworld Keynote test Mozilla hires Humanized founders Apple’s stock tanks from [...]

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Here are the show highlights for episode #8 of the Geek News Daily Podcast for January 14, 2008: Google beefs up iPhone interface New Apple Mac Pro with eight cores U.S. courts to consider legality of laptop inspections EU launches new Microsoft anti-trust probe “iPod Tax” smacked down in Canada EFF tries to squash labels [...]

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Here are the show highlights for episode #7 of the Geek News Daily Podcast for January 3, 2008: Time picks top 50 websites of 2007 Saudis arrest top blogger Australian government equates Freedom of Speech to liking kiddie porn IBM filing 10 patents a day in technology States fighting to keep Microsoft antitrust decree in [...]

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