Here are the shownotes for episode #45 for the Global Geek News Podcast:

* Smoking near Apple computers creates biohazard, voids warranty

* Netbooks have higher failure rates than laptops

* Google's Chrome OS, the next big thing or Google's great blunder?

* Microsoft: Azure to go live in January, for pay in February

* Bing captures 10% of the search market in the US

* Banned Xbox 360 modders unite with a class action lawsuit against Microsoft

* New York tests Xbox-based alert system

* Sony to expand the PlayStation Network into Sony Online Service, sell music, books and videos

* "Unfriend" declared word of the year

* Digg CEO Adelson: "I don't think people expect to pay for news anymore"

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Host: Jeremy Bray & Wesley Faulkner

Special Guest: Randall Bennett from TechVi.com

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