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CNET News Daily Podcast: Navigating the digital TV transition
Broadcasters throughout the country will turn off their old analog TV transmitters on February 17, and begin transmitting their TV signals only in digital format. But despite all the benefits, consumers still have questions about how this transition... ...
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CNET News Daily Podcast: E-commerce expert heads to D.C.
A new economic team is heading to Washington and while it's still hard to gauge what the new administration will do vis a vis high tech, President-elect Barack Obama may have sent a message with the appointment of an Internet commerce... ...
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CNET News Daily Podcast: Green is the new black? Not so fast
Green may be the new black as far as consumer electronics companies are concerned. But Greenpeace is not so impressed with their efforts to date. In a new report, the group charges that electronics manufacturers are failing to make sufficiently bold... ...
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CNET News Daily Podcast: Fun news for camera nerds
A French company called DxO Labs has launched a Web site for the detail-obsessed camera crowd. CNET News reporter Stephen Shankland explains why it's getting a lot of attention. That and the day's headlines, in Monday's podcast. Listen now:... ...
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CNET News Daily Podcast: When live, online video goes too far
The drama surrounding the 19-year-old who overdosed on pills live on the Justin.TV Internet broadcasting service took more than 12 hours to unfold Wednesday night. How does something like this happen? CNET News' Greg Sandoval talks about the effect... ...
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CNET News Daily Podcast: Behind Apple's holdout on DRM
Apple continues to wrap the vast majority of major-label music in Fairplay, the company's proprietary digital rights management software, at a time when its major competitors have already signed DRM-free deals with all the big players. In an open... ...
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CNET News Daily Podcast: Microsoft shakes up security
Microsoft is causing a stir in the security world by dropping the fee for its antivirus software. That might be great news for security in general. But if people come to expect the service for free, where does that leave the companies that focus... ...
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CNET News Daily Podcast: Microsoft shakes up security world
Microsoft is causing a stir in the security world by dropping the fee for its antivirus software. That might be great news for security in general. But if people come to expect the service for free, where does that leave the companies that focus... ...
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CNET News Daily Podcast: Looking ahead to a post-Yang Yahoo
Topping Tuesday's news, of course, is the announcement that Jerry Yang will step down as CEO of Yahoo. CNET News reporters Stephen Shankland and Elinor Mills talk about what the executive shift will mean for the company--and for a possible... ...
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CNET News Daily Podcast: Adobe's strategy on computer constellation
In any rundown of the current computing constellation, you have to mention Microsoft's power with programmers being tethered to desktops and laptops (the vast majority of which run Windows). As for Google, that company is trying to dominate what it... ...
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CNET News Daily Podcast: iPhone gets promoted to the boardroom
Apple reporter Tom Krazit drops by the studio to talk about how Apple's iPhone, largely ignored by IT departments in its first generation, is now making its way into more and more companies' tech arsenal. Also in this podcast: Sun Microsystems... ...
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CNET News Daily Podcast: Tech innovations that won big
From one-time-use syringes to fire logs made from an invasive African plant, the 2008 Tech Awards honored five innovators for creating technology solutions for problems in developing countries. CNET News reporter Kara Tsuboi attended a reception for... ...
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CNET News Daily Podcast: Why it's so hard to offer free online movies
Online media reporter Greg Sandoval talks with Kara Tsuboi about the predicament movie studios and online video sites face in trying to provide free movies online. Also in this podcast: Google has added video and voice to its chat service; video... ...
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CNET News Daily Podcast: Cybersecurity outlook goes from grim to worse
The fourth edition of the Worldwide Infrastructure Security Report is out and it makes for somber reading. Not only are attacks larger in size, but most of them are stretching the upper limits of companies' security resources in order to deal with... ...
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Meet the newest odd couple: Hollywood & Google
It may be the start of an entirely new page in the often rocky relationship between Google and Hollywood. After a couple of years of verbal sniping and legal threats, the two sides are moving to resolve their long-running disputes. CNET News' Greg... ...
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CNET News Daily Podcast: What's next for wireless Net neutrality?
Though the FCC has paid plenty of attention to the limiting of peer-to-peer traffic on wired networks, wireless providers with similar policies as Comcast have largely flown under the radar. That could change under an Obama administration, says CNET... ...
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CNET News Daily Podcast: Will Jerry Yang go back to Microsoft?
As you've likely heard, Google decided Wednesday to pull the plug on a search-ad partnership with Yahoo due to antitrust concerns. Now it appears Yahoo's jilted CEO Jerry Yang is leaving the door open for an old suitor: Microsoft. CNET News reporter... ...
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CNET News Daily Podcast: The election from the tech perspective
Tuesday's election was good news for Democrats, but it was also a good night for many online news sites and one, relatively unknown tech entrepreneur. Hear a rundown of our election coverage from the tech perspective. Also in this podcast, antitrust... ...
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One final word on the Internet and the '08 elections
OK. Enough with trying to decipher the existential meaning of even the minutest tic of any of the candidates on the campaign trail. Now it's time to tally the votes. So where can you go online to keep tabs as the ballots get counted? And what... ...
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CNET News Daily Podcast: Why e-voting's still a mess
CNET News' Declan McCullagh calls it an expensive lesson in the law of unintended consequences. He's talking about widespread adoption of touch-screen machines in the aftermath of the 2000 election debacle. But as the U.S. heads to the polls on... ...
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