Geek News Daily Podcast

The stories for the Geek News Daily podcast for January 16, 2008 are: Microsoft seeks patent on office "spy" software Amazon's free shipping costing €1,000 per day in France Sun to acquire mySQL Spore is coming to Mac in 2008 Dreamhost overbills customers $7.5 Million; Uses Homer Simpson to deliver apology Panasonic EVOLTA: "The longest lasting AA battery in the world" Microsoft takes 10 years to close support ticket

Geek News Daily Show #9 for Tuesday, January 15, 2008 covers the following topics: 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

Geek News Daily Show #8 for January 14, 2008 covers the following topics: Google beefs up iPhone interface New Apple Mac Pro with eight cores U.S. courts to consider legality of laptop inspections EU launches new Microsoft anti-trust probe "iPod Tax" smacked down in Canada EFF tries to squash labels "making available" claims Mininova turns 3 Google boots IncrediMail; stock price plummets

The Geek News Daily podcast for January 3, 2008 covers the following stories: Time picks top 50 websites of 2007 Saudis arrest top blogger Australian government equates Freedom of Speech to liking kiddie porn IBM filing 10 patents a day in technology States fighting to keep Microsoft antitrust decree in place LANCOR sues non-profit charity OLPC for $20 million Presidential candidates hate gamers freedoms Now you can graph your Twitter usage

This is the Geek News Daily podcast for 1/2/08 which covers the following stories: New Year Eve, live on the net Microsoft using YouTube to promote Vista, Live Google to offer friend updates? Adobe, Omniture in hot water for snooping on CS3 users Cell phones quickly becoming mobile entertainment devices Solid state, cloud storage on tap for power-hungry 2008 Baidu CFO Shawn Wang dies in accident US and UK have become "endemic" surveillance societies

The items covered in the show for December 28, 2007 are: Egypt "to copywrite antiquities" New Open-Source software archive hits the web Storm Worm delivers coal on Christmas FBI planning world's largest biometric database Microsoft cries monopoly on Google Study: Ads in online shows work better than ads on tv Panasonic to get 150-inch plasma tv Bible put on pin-head sized chip

Today's show covers the following hot stories: 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 partnet on mobile Web search. Microsoft signs rare open-source deal under EU orders.

Todays show covers the topics: Turn in a software pirate, Collect $500. Nanowire battery holds 10 times the charge of existing ones. $3.2 Billion lost to phishing in 2007. Feds readying for 2008 IPv6 deadline, but not for actual use. New trojan software swaps Google Ads for malware. Sony offers $100 credit. Facebook settles text-messaging suit. 73% of Americans havn't heard of Google Docs

The tech headlines for December 19, 2007 are: BBC Launches iPlayer Service, Apple plugs 42 security holes, E3 returns to L.A., Privacy is no defense when Circuit City finds child porn, $8,000/gallon ink leads to antitrust lawsuit, 1,000 pages of bad news: Ohio e-voting report released, Porn Spammers lust for facebook data lands them in court, Universal and XM settle suit over receivers ability to record

Geek News Daily is a brief roundup of the top daily tech headlines. This episode covers the following: Blogging turns 10. Nintendo and Gamestop to guarantee Wii's by January PS3 gets DivX and WMV playback Microsoft Responds to Operas antitrust complaint Google sued over Chinese name Windows Mobile makes changes to compete with the iPhone Ads-Click Introduces MicroSocialAds.