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CNET News Daily Podcast: Students report Windows 7 upgrade problems
Of the many ways to buy Windows 7, the best deal Microsoft makes available goes to students, who can buy a downloadable upgrade version of Windows 7 for $29. However, a number of students have reported problems when trying to download and install the new version of Windows. Microsoft says it is a …
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CNET News Daily Podcast: Amazon and Netflix earnings defy expectations
Amazon and Netflix today joined Apple and Intel in showing surprisingly good earnings results despite most economists' lingering concerns over consumer spending. Amazon's investors responded by sending the stock up 25 percent in trading... ...
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CNET News Daily Podcast: Live from N.Y., it's Windows 7
CNET News reporter Ina Fried joins the podcast from the Windows 7 launch in New York to talk about how the hoopla compared with the Vista launch and what surprises might be in store even for those who have been following Windows 7 closely. That and... ...
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CNET News Daily Podcast: Bing gets social, new BlackBerry out
In today's podcast: Microsoft's Bing links up with Twitter, Facebook; RIM unveils its newest BlackBerry, the Bold 9700; the first of many deep deals on Windows 7 surfaces; and more of today's top headlines. Listen now: Download today's... ...
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CNET News Daily Podcast: Apple's having the best week ever
Apple's on a roll this week. The Cupertino, Calif.-based company on Monday posted record profits despite lackluster consumer spending. And as a follow-up today, it revised most of its hardware line with some flashy updates including an evolved,... ...
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CNET News Daily Podcast: Verizon takes on the iPhone with Droid
The latest Android-based smartphone, the Droid, could debut as early as October 30, according to a cryptic countdown code on Verizon's Web site that promotes the new device. The Droid will run the new Android 2.0 operating system on a 3.7-inch... ...
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CNET News Daily Podcast: Snow Leopard and Win 7 faceoff
CNET Labs has tested and retested both Mac OS X 10.6, known as Snow Leopard, and Microsoft's Windows 7, and they finally have the results for which handles certain tasks better. Listen in for some of the more noteworthy results. Also on today's... ...
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CNET News Daily Podcast: Why Sidekick woes hit deaf users hard
T-Mobile's Sidekick recent outage caused problems for almost all subscribers, but the deaf community got hit particularly hard. CNET News reporter Ina Fried explains why. Plus, Amazon is rolling out same day delivery in select cities, and some... ...
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CNET News Daily Podcast: Fiscal recovery, new Wi-Fi spec on the horizon
In today's podcast: Gartner says electronics markets have bottomed out, a new Wi-Fi spec could replace Bluetooth and Wi-Fi routers, two physicists believe that the Large Hadron Collider may be sabotaging itself, and more of today's top... ...
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CNET News Daily Podcast: Snow Leopard's disappearing trick explained
A big problem with Apple's latest operating system (dubbed Snow Leopard) is affecting a very small segment of users, who've seen some very important files gone missing--like, all of them. We get CNET Senior Writer Erica Ogg in the studio to talk... ...
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CNET News Daily Podcast: More on Microsoft's Sidekick failure
Wireless carrier T-Mobile USA has stopped selling all models of the Sidekick in the wake of a massive hardware failure that resulted in many customers losing their e-mail, contacts, and other data. Sidekick customers had started experiencing... ...
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CNET News Daily Podcast: Friday's top tech headlines
In today's podcast: Twitter asks users to help take its site global, Microsoft photographers raise money for United Way, an iPhone app points to the future of mobile gaming, what kids love more than junk food, and more tech news of the day. Listen... ...
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CNET News Daily Podcast: Google Android, belle of the CTIA ball
At the CTIA Wireless Show, reporter Marguerite Reardon says Google Android is getting the bulk of the attention from both handset makers and wireless carriers, while AT&T's CTO defends the quality of his company's service. Also in today's podcast:... ...
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CNET News Daily Podcast: AT&T finally warms to VoIP
In today's podcast, we get CNET News writer Tom Krazit in the studio to talk about yesterday's news that AT&T will finally allow voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) applications to run on its network. This opens up the field for apps from Vonage and... ...
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CNET News Daily Podcast: Game-changing evidence in Viacom-YouTube case?
CNET News reporter Greg Sandoval joins the podcast to talk about some possibly incendiary evidence that has come to light in the $1 billion Viacom-YouTube copyright case. Also, Apple gets high environmental marks in a new report and the Palm Pre... ...
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CNET News Daily Podcast: Google Chrome gets close to the metal
Google is building its browser, Chrome, the ability to tap directly into a computer's native processing power through software called Native Client. If successful, Native Client will help close one gap that separates Web applications from those that... ...
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CNET News Daily Podcast: AT&T's image problem
Is the iPhone the cause of AT&T's network problems? And if so, how does AT&T go about fixing it? CNET's Maggie Reardon talks to corporate brand consultants about repairing the reputation of the wireless carrier that recently has finished last in... ...
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CNET News Daily Podcast: The TechStars of tomorrow
TechStars, a Colorado-based incubator for start-ups, is kind of like a boot camp for entrepreneurs. On Wednesday, CNET News reporter Caroline McCarthy attended TechStars' Investor Day in Mountain View, Calif., where representatives from some of the... ...
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CNET News Daily Podcast: GM stops eBay sales, crooks make new bank Trojan
In today's podcast: General Motors ends its eBay car sales experiment; the long-awaited BlackBerry Desktop Manager for Mac is set to arrive Friday; Microsoft says its automated, one-click "Fix it" solutions to security problems are working; an... ...
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CNET News Daily Podcast: Dell's new laptop with 'wireless' charging
In today's podcast, we talk about Apple's iPhone landing on yet another U.K. carrier, as well as the company's reported re-hire of former Newton strategist Michael Tchao--a move that has seemingly reaffirmed people's suspicions that the company is... ...
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