PS3

Here are the show highlights for episode #36 of the Geek News Daily podcast for September 4, 2008.

• Sony recalls 440,000 Vaio TZ laptops for overheating
• PS3 firmware update to bring high-quality voice chat
• PSP-3000 actually has the same battery life as the current PSP
• 200,000 core supercomputer to be built
• Google Co-Founder expects Chrome like browser for Android
• BBC planning music download service
• Serious security flaw in Google Chrome
• Google changing Chrome’s EULA after controversy erupts
• Picasa 3.0 launches with facial recgonition
• Sony and PNY releasing Ghostbusters on a flash drive
• New iPod Nano and iPod Touch dimensions revealed?
• Windows 7 aiming for 15 second boot times?
• Samsung:  Blu-ray will be dead in 5 years

Cool Link of the Day: Photoflow

Host: Jeremy “pcnerd37″ Bray
Geek News Daily #36

Here are the show highlights for episode #28 of the Geek News Daily Podcast for August 20, 2008:

• Sony Unveils 160GB PS3, Starts Shipping 80GB PS3
• Sony Announces PSP-3000
• Sony PS3’s VidZone Service Offers Free Music, Videos
• Playstation 3 Keypad Brings Thumb Typing to the PS3
• Palm Releases Treo Pro
• JustHackIt Launches
• Hulu Hits 100 Million Streams, 3.2 Million Uniques
• Copy and Paste for the iPhone
• 7,000 British Game Pirates Sued for $557 USD

Cool Link of the Day: A Man Sized Guitar Hero Portable

Host: Jeremy “pcnerd37″ Bray
Geek News Daily #28

Here are the show highlights for episode #25 of the Geek News Daily Podcast for February 27, 2008:

• EU to Microsoft: Not open enough. Imposes $1.4 Billion fine
• Metal Gear Solid 4 PS3 bundle announced
• Study: FPS deaths provide sweet relief to victims
• Pakistan lifts YouTube ban
• Microsoft glitch cuts access to e-mail, messenger
• MoFuse instantly converts sites for the iPhone
• Microsoft picks up Israeli ad-targeting software startup YaData for a reported $20-30 million
• Apple event for the iPhone SDK: March 6th

Host: Jeremy “pcnerd37″ Bray
Geek News Daily #25

Here are the show highlights for episode #21 of the Geek News Daily Podcast for February 7, 2008:

• Repairs under way; explanation elusive on cable failures
• IBM shrinks Cell to 45nm. Cheaper PS3s to follow
• OpenID welcomes Microsoft, Google, Verisign and IBM
• Google launches localized news service
• You’ve stalked your friends, now get a newsfeed from your family
• Microsoft buys Caligari to pimp Virtual Earth
• Consumers can scan bank deposits at home
• Cellphone flasher gets small fine, large public humiliation

Host: Jeremy “pcnerd37″ Bray
Geek News Daily #21

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
• 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

Host: Jeremy “pcnerd37″ Bray
Geek News Daily #16

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