• 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:

• 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

• DirectTV pulls head out of butt and announces a new DirectTV HD Tivo for next year
• Apple & AT&T sued for selling too many iPhone 3Gs
• AT&T experiences major data outage on East Coast
• Cellphone charger causes blaze in Delaware
• 7 Prisoners have surgery to remove cellphones stuck “up there”
• P2P traffic drops as streaming video grows in popularity
• GetClicky Analytics Service says Google Chrome accounts for nearly 2% of browser traffic.
• Appeals court smacks down judge for relying on Wikipedia
• Washington State court deals blow to one-sided EULAs
• Metallic silver Nintendo DS coming September 7

Cool Link of the Day: The Styrobot wants to rule your cups and packaging

Host: Jeremy “pcnerd37″ Bray
Geek News Daily #35

• Walmart discontinues 80GB and 4GB Zunes?  120GB Zune priced?
• Apple event set for Sept 9 as rumored
• Warez ringleader gets probation after guilty plea
• Microsoft gets patent for page up / page down
• Study: 88% of IT Pros would steal passwords or data if fired
• Hulu premiering shows before television broadcast
• PSP getting a Wi-Fi store
• iPhone web share grows to 0.48%
• The first letter in your email could determine the amount of spam you get
• Google’s Chrome browser launches

Cool Link of the Day:  USB can-shaped humidifier

Host: Jeremy “pcnerd37″ Bray
Geek News Daily #33

• Microsoft says a 120GB Zune is coming
• Opentape invites the RIAA to play whack-a-mole post-Muxtape
• The WB comes back to life as a Hulu competitor
• AT&T adds two international data plans for the iPhone, still expensive
• iPhone 3Gs outnumber 1st Gen iPhones
• iPhone Dev Team releases PwnageTool 2.0.3 to jailbreak 2.0.2 firmware
• Amazon’s Kindle gets $100 discount in Chase promotion
• Network notary system thwarts man-in-the-middle attacks
• Google Suggest finally makes its debut

Cool Links of the Day:  Wii Balance Board controls Roomba &  Treadmills used to play WoW

Host: Jeremy “pcnerd37″ Bray
Geek News Daily #31

• Sceintists demo freaky new hacking target: pacemakers
• TiVo getting YouTube
• YouTube’s new APIs open the site to external apps
• Judge to Viacom: No punitive damages in YouTube case
• Yahoo in discussions to join Google’s OpenSocial
• 100,000 Apple iPhone SDKs downloaded so far
• iPhone Dev Team jailbreaks firmware 2.0…before it’s out!
• Intel confirms 160GB solid-state drives to be unveiled soon

Cool Link of the Day: Microsoft unveils first game for Surface

Host: Jeremy “pcnerd37″ Bray
Geek News Daily #27

• Researchers transmit optical data at 16.4 Tpbs over 1,500 miles
• Sprint finally offers $99 ‘Simply Everything’ flate rate calling plan
• It took 16 months, but Google relaunches Jotspot
• Google Docs gets a visual overhaul, now more Office like
• LinkedIn revamps design, adds status updates
• Vista starts spotting activation cracks
• PayPal warns: Steer clear of Apple’s Safari browser
• BBC broadcasting Rugby Six Nations match in 3D

Cool Link of the Day: USB fan made out of a CD

Host: Jeremy “pcnerd37″ Bray
Geek News Daily #26