Here are the show highlights for episode #42 of the Geek News Daily podcast for December 2, 2008. 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 [...]

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Here are the show highlights for episode #41 of the Geek News Daily podcast for December 1, 2008. Microsoft and Yahoo in talks for $20 billion deal Despite reports, the Apple App Store has not reached 10,000 apps Netflix challenges hackers to come up with a better recommendation engine for $1 million Blockbuster’s OnDemand service [...]

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Here are the show highlights for episode #27 of the Geek News Daily Podcast for March 12, 2008: 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 [...]

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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 [...]

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Here are the show highlights for episode #20 of the Geek News Daily Podcast for February 5, 2008: Gartner: 80% of commercial apps to use open source by 2012 IFPI sues Baidu, Yahoo China over deep linking mp3s Wireless chip-on-a-band-aid to monitor patients from home Fring adds file-swapping to its mobile VoIP app Podcasts taking [...]

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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 #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 #4 of the Geek News Daily Podcast for December 20, 2007: US approves Google/DoubleClick deal Blockbuster grinches TotalAccesss customers with price hike Congress considers bill to make radio “pay to play” Apple kills Think Secret Teens creating more online content Teens value non-online meeting Yahoo, America Movil partner [...]

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