• 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

• 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 coming to Blu-ray players
• Super secret London tunnel for sale
• Refurbished Kindles show up for $360
• Study:  Internet searches boost the brain
• Windows 7 to allow graphics acceleration from the CPU
• Vista SP2 set for an April launch to manufactures?
• Idiots call Wrath of the Lich King fastest selling game of all time

Cool Link of the Day:  Backyard observatory rivals Hubble’s images

Bargain of the Day:  Ebay selling a 2009 Corvette and more for a starting bid of $1 and FREE shipping!

Host: Jeremy “pcnerd37″ Bray
Geek News Daily #41

• 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

• 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 to piggyback on Wi-Fi
• Netflix chooses Blu-ray format over HD-DVD
• Polarioid technology fades out

Host: Jeremy “pcnerd37″ Bray
Geek News Daily #22

• 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 off(again): eMarketer
• Official: 16GB iPhone available and 32GB iPod touch –both $499
• Fourth undersea cable cut near UAE, suspicions rise
• AOL acquires affiliate network to boost ad platform

Host: Jeremy “pcnerd37″ Bray
Geek News Daily #20

• 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 IM client Social.im now available for Mac
• ICANN issues plea for liberty
• Uh oh: Microsoft says Vista is more secure than XP, OSX and Linux
• Yahoo may offer DRM-free music for free
• Virgin Galactic unveils spaceships that will take passangers up in space

Host: Jeremy “pcnerd37″ Bray
Geek News Daily #15

• 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

• 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 open door for hackers
• YouTube taunt results in weapons arrest
• YouTube marketshare increases but the market stays widespread

Host: Jeremy “pcnerd37″ Bray
Geek News Daily #11

• 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 on mobile Web search
• Microsoft signs rare open-source deal under EU orders

Host: Jeremy “pcnerd37″ Bray
Geek News Daily #4