CNET News Daily Podcast (MP3)

CNET News Daily Podcast: Vevo: The MTV of new media?

charles.cooper@cnet.com (CNET.com) — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 12:41:00 PST

MTV doesn't show much more than reality TV programming these days, so video-sharing site Vevo is looking to fill that void. Already armed with the video libraries of record labels Universal and Sony, word comes today that EMI is on the verge of signing with Vevo as well. That would leave Warner Music Group as the lone holdout among major labels.

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Today's stories:

Video site Vevo close to signing EMI

Behind last night's Bing outage

Google adds streaming news to Google Finance

Apple updates Mac Pro with 3.33Ghz chip option

Hardware for Gmail: the 'Gboard'

CNET News Daily Podcast: Bing eyes Apple turf

charles.cooper@cnet.com (CNET.com) — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 12:47:00 PST

CNET News reporter Ina Fried talks about what a Microsoft Bing app for the iPhone might look like. Plus, we run down other headlines of the day, including an official announcement of the Comcast/NBC Universal deal and some good news for online retailers.

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Today's stories:

Comcast snags NBC Universal to build $37 billion venture

ComScore: So far, online holiday sales are up

Study: 'Digital abuse' hits half of youth

Google Earth peers into California's eco-future

Google wants to unclog Net's DNS plumbing

Phone photo quality interests Google, Microsoft

Bing's iPhone plans (and more)

Bing Maps Beta: Very cool, but limited

Report: Video games possibly coming to Redbox

Orangutan takes photos, shares them on Facebook

CNET News Daily Podcast: Cybercrooks use typos to spread malware

charles.cooper@cnet.com (CNET.com) — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 13:02:00 PST

In today's podcast: McAfee finds that Cameroon's .cm extension is the riskiest domain, as cybercrooks take advantage of a commonly mistyped version of ".com;" Psystar stops selling its Mac clones; AT&T gives up on its Verizon ad lawsuit; and more of today's tech news.

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Today's stories:

Comcast poised to get NBC Universal

McAfee uncovers riskiest domains

FCC's plans take from Peter to pay Paul

Psystar ceases sales of Mac clones

Spring Design Nook injunction denied, but battle's still on

AT&T gives up on Verizon ad lawsuit

Intel hopes 48-core chip will solve new challenges

Chevy Volt to cruise into Calif. next year

Yahoo brings Facebook Connect into its sites

Put your Flip videos on the big(ger) screen

CNET News Daily Podcast: Comcast's NBC buy and bandwidth meter

charles.cooper@cnet.com (CNET.com) — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 13:40:00 PST

Comcast is on a roll this week. On Tuesday it began its public pilot of a bandwidth monitoring system for its customers to figure out exactly how much they're downloading each month. This comes a little more than a year after the company announced it would be capping users at 250GB per month.

More importantly, reports say that General Electric and Vivendi have reached a tentative agreement that helps pave the way for Comcast to buy NBC Universal. If, or rather when, that deal is sealed, Comcast would expand its media reach outside of its service roots into being a content provider of its own.

Today's episode runs 7:38.

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Today's stories:

Report: GE, Vivendi reach deal to clear NBC sale

Comcast beta launches bandwidth meter

Psystar said to have deal with Apple

Prime time for YouTube? Google wants to stream TV, for a fee

Michael Jackson tops Google, Yahoo search in 2009

DARPA's latest challenge: Locate these 10 balloons

This year, you can stalk Santa from your car

Microsoft investigating 'black screen of death'

Report: Apple accused of NAND price manipulation

CNET News Daily Podcast: Black Friday and Cyber Monday kick off holiday shopping

charles.cooper@cnet.com (CNET.com) — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 12:31:00 PST

The holiday shopping season has begun. The Friday after Thanksgiving, and the Monday after the Thanksgiving weekend, are major indicators of the health of the economy for many retailers. To discuss how things are doing so far, we have with us in the studio CNET reporter Erica Ogg, who covers consumer electronics and retail.

In other news: The CrunchPad is no more; the Barnes & Noble Nook will hit stores later than expected; and the Large Hadron Collider sets a new record.

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Today's stories:

Click away: Holiday Web shopping bounces back

Barnes & Noble Nook to hit stores later than expected

The CrunchPad is dead (TechCrunch)

eBay fined $2.5 million in French perfume case

Latest Firefox beta offers file-handling feature

'Twitter' is top word of 2009

CERN's collider sets proton speed record

Underground data center to help heat Helsinki

Pedal-powered Christmas tree lights Copenhagen

CNET News Daily Podcast: Top headlines of the day

charles.cooper@cnet.com (CNET.com) — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 12:26:00 PST

A quick rundown of the top stories we're following as we head into the holiday weekend, including: New Google search UI gets colorful, and Buffalo seems to have won the race to be first to ship a USB 3.0 drive.

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Today's stories:

Crude Michelle Obama image dumped by site owner

New Google search UI brings color, search options

Buffalo ships first USB 3.0 hard drive

Clearwire raises another $920 million

Mozilla issues near-final Thunderbird 3

Judging the top 10 Internet moments of the decade

NBA star won't tweet until he has 1 million followers

CNET News Daily Podcast: Google to track TiVo data

charles.cooper@cnet.com (CNET.com) — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 13:19:00 PST

In today's podcast: Google will start tracking TiVo viewing data to help advertisers see how commercials get seen in the day of the DVR; four days after the CERN particle accelerator was turned back on, it's making quick progress; Intel overhauls its Atom processor for Netbooks; AT&T follows Verizon's lead with mobile broadband plans; and more of today's top tech news.

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Today's stories:

CERN particle accelerator sees first collisions

HP reports in-line earnings, raises 2010 outlook

Google to track TiVo viewing habits

Major Intel chip upgrade coming to Netbooks

AT&T offers prepaid wireless broadband

Chrome extensions site now open for uploads

eBay launches holiday deals app for iPhone

CNET News Daily Podcast: Murdoch enlisting Microsoft to shun Google

charles.cooper@cnet.com (CNET.com) — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 12:49:00 PST

It appears that Rupert Murdoch was serious about wanting to remove his company's media properties, such as The Wall Street Journal, The New York Post, Fox News, and Hulu, from the Google search index. Murdoch's News Corp. has reportedly initiated discussions with Microsoft over a plan to have the media company's Web content essentially delisted from the world's largest search engine, Google, but included on Microsoft's Bing, in exchange for payment from Microsoft. Microsoft has reportedly approached other media giants about having their content removed from Google search results as well.

CNET is preparing an update on this development and we'll have more news later today.

Also on the podcast: No app store apologies from Apple; a dangerous, if rare, iPhone worm; "smartbooks" to take on netbooks; and editors begin to leave Wikipedia.

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Today's stories:

Report: Microsoft may help News Corp. delist sites

Schiller: No apologies for App Store approval process

Another iPhone worm, but this one is serious

E-tailers snagged in marketing 'scam' blame customers

Will the 'smartbook' be a better Netbook?

Dell Mini 3i smartphone ready for China launch

Nintendo launches paid video content for Wii

Wikipedia losing volunteers

'Jurassic Park' kid cast as Facebook co-founder

CNET News Daily Podcast: Nokia's layoffs and Skype's eBay adieu

charles.cooper@cnet.com (CNET.com) — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:21:00 PST

It's been a bad week for Nokia's research and development division, which had more than 300 of its staff laid off this week. The news was a little better for Skype, which detached from its eBay owners and netted a $2.75 billion valuation. Also, Facebook's video hosting is now the third most popular video hosting site on the Web, though it still lags far behind leader YouTube. Hear more about these stories and others in today's episode.

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Today's stories:

Nokia to lay off up to 330 R&D staffers

eBay sets Skype loose at $2.75 billion valuation

Facebook becomes third most popular video site

Twitter's geotagging API goes live

Cisco launches iPhone security app

Town to photograph every car that enters and leaves

Germ alert: Attack of the killer necktie!

HDMI products to get meaningful labels

CNET News Daily Podcast: Meet Chrome OS

charles.cooper@cnet.com (CNET.com) — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:59:00 PST

Today, Google released the source code for its Chrome OS project and gave the public the first real look at how the new operating system for Netbooks will work. CNET reporter Tom Krazit calls in from Google headquarters to give us the scoop.

Also in today's podcast: a computer glitch at the FAA caused nationwide flight cancellations and delays; Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer says Windows 7 is selling better than any previous version of Windows; and AOL looks to shed about 2,500 workers and its MapQuest division.

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Today's stories:

Google releases Chrome OS source code

Computer glitch slows U.S. air travel

Ballmer: Windows 7 selling like hotcakes

AOL: We need to fire 2,500 'volunteers'

AOL to sell MapQuest, maybe to Microsoft?

Yahoo adds photos, tweets to news search

Best Buy starts Black Friday craze a week early

Next year's Flip will do Wi-Fi