Geek News Daily

Here are the highlights for Geek News Daily #12 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

Here are the topics discussed in 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 open door for hackers

YouTube taunt results in weapons arrest

YouTube marketshare increases but the market stays widespread

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