• 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.

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Geek News Daily #44

Podcast Feed:

• 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

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

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Geek News Daily #38

• 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

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Geek News Daily #35

• New algorithm boosts network efficiency
• Study: DRM a major barrier to e-textbook adoption
• IE8 Beta released to the public
• Microsoft’s Live Search Cashback idea fails to help its market share
• New numbers on European internet growth
• Diary.com - Scrapbooking For The Twitter Generation?
• U.K. Advertising Standards Authority pulls misleading iPhone ad
• Cisco improves WebEx with $215 million acquisition of e-mail company PostPath
• RIAA wins P2P case after defendant reformats hard drive

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Geek News Daily #32

• 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
• Digg nearly tripples registered users in a year
• European court decides filesharers should stay anonymous
• Ustream.TV chosen to live stream the Republican National Convention

Host: Jeremy “pcnerd37″ Bray
Geek News Daily #17

• 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
• The LEGO brick turns 50
• UK education group: Keep the Wii out of PE class
• Windows 7 isnt headed for 2009, says Microsoft. More like 2011
• XPFS mouse and keyboard adapter now available for the PS3
• Diggnation to be shown on Virgin America flights

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Geek News Daily #16

• 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 Macworld keynote
• Toshiba slashes HD-DVD prices
• Apple announces MacBook Air, HD movie rentals and Apple TV 2.0 at Macworld keynote

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Geek News Daily #9