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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

CNET News Daily Podcast: IBM's work to reverse-engineer the human brain

charles.cooper@cnet.com (CNET.com) — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:16:00 PST

A leading IBM researcher says computers capable of mimicking the human brain's power and efficiency could be just a decade away. CNET News reporter Daniel Terdiman talks about the findings.

Plus, Hulu inks its first major music label deal, the Office 2010 beta goes public, and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 breaks even more records than we originally thought.

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Today's stories:

Modern Warfare 2 tops entertainment industry, not just games

Office 2010 beta goes public

Who makes the most reliable laptops?

Carriers to sell majority of mobile devices by '13

Hulu lands first music label deal

Google set to promote Chrome extensions

Intel sees opportunities in wind, electric cars

IBM: Computing rivaling human brain may be ready by 2019

CNET News Daily Podcast: AOL gets a spin-off target date

charles.cooper@cnet.com (CNET.com) — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 13:44:00 PST

Eight years after merging with Time Warner, AOL has finally been given a date for when it's being spun off to once again be its own company. We also talk about clean coal in China, the next versions of Adobe's Flash and AIR platforms, as well as the news that Microsoft's next version of Internet Explorer isn't quite ready for a public peek just yet.

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Today's stories:

AOL to spin off Dec. 9, begin trading Dec. 10

Survey: Third of teens text while driving

T-Mobile resumes Sidekick sales

Antitrust concerns linger in Google Books deal

Adobe releases new Flash, AIR betas

Paul Allen diagnosed with cancer

Internet Explorer 9 not coming at PDC

GE inks deal for 'cleaner coal' in China

CNET News Daily Podcast: Supercomputers and the future of Hulu

charles.cooper@cnet.com (CNET.com) — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 14:31:00 PST

Supercomputers are in the news again. First Microsoft has a new version of its Excel program that can tear spreadsheets that used to take weeks to calculate, down into a few hours. Then we've got results released early Monday that unveil which company gets to claim its supercomputer as the fastest among the top 500 in the world.

We also get CNET News senior writer Greg Sandoval on the phone to talk about what's going on with Hulu, and why it may soon cost you money to watch your favorite TV shows and movies on the popular site.

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Today's stories:

Judge rules for Apple in Psystar case

'Jaguar' supercomputer races past 'Roadrunner'

Cisco boosts bid for Tandberg to $3.41 billion

Microsoft testing Excel for supercomputers

iPhone app developer quits over approval process

Oxford's word of the year? 'Unfriend'

Hulu's backers bicker as Web video soars

CNET News Daily Podcast: Dell's big smartphone move

charles.cooper@cnet.com (CNET.com) — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 12:43:00 PST

In today's podcast: Dell makes its entry into the smartphone category official with the Dell Mini 3, Verizon Communications starts warning music pirates, Advanced Micro Devices' rough road is just beginning, and Office 2010 leaks early online.

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Today's stories:

Dell unveils Android-based Mini 3 smartphone

Verizon tests sendding RIAA copyright notices

With $1.25 billion, can AMD finally compete?

Office 2010 beta leaks early

A CNET Conversation with Eric Schmidt

Vega tablet is real