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 headlines.

Today's stories:

Intel earnings beat Wall Street predictions

Gartner eyeing electronics recovery next year

Report: Apple developing radio app for iPhone

Twitter enlists users to help fight spam

Finland makes 1Mb broadband access a legal right

The supercollider and a theory about fate

New Wi-Fi spec challenges Bluetooth

Blockbuster OnDemand lands on TiVo

Solar-charging backpacks set for hike to market… Read more

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 about the problem and what Apple is doing to fix it. Also mentioned is a temporary fix that works as long as people have some sort of backup they were using prior to the data loss.

We also talk about Cisco's new multibillion-dollar acquisition, Pepsi's controversial iPhone app, and Nokia's first foray into … Read more

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 problems connecting to the data network more than a week ago. Microsoft, whose Danger subsidiary powers the Sidekick service, said it was investigating the problems. On Saturday, Microsoft and T-Mobile posted an updated notice saying all data that was not currently on customers devices was likely lost permanently. And here we are--looking at one of the largest losses of online consumer data we'… Read more

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.

Today's stories:

B&N e-book reader reportedly in the works

Apple releases iPhone OS 3.1.2

Twitter asks for help translating

Phished or not, leaked passwords show lazy habits

How to make strong, easy-to-remember passwords

The future of iPhone games

Microsoft shutterbugs shoot for a cause

Kids find Nintendo yummier than Oreos, M&Ms… Read more

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: Twitter is rumored to be in search talks, Dell closes a North Carolina manufacturing plant, and Comcast kicks off a trial of a new virus warning system for its customers.

Today's stories:

Twitter on the verge of big search deals?

Microsoft introduces 'Starter' version of Office

Dell closing N.C. manufacturing plant

Comcast pop-ups alert customers to PC infections… Read more

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 Skype to actually compete with AT&T's business, and possibly bring Google's Voice service to Apple's iPhone.

Today's stories:

Amazon goes global with new Kindle

November deadline for new Google Books deal

RealNetworks set to file appeal in RealDVD case

Compuware to swallow site optimizer Gomez

Microbe converts sludge into ethanol… Read more

Today's stories:

Gmail also hit by e-mail phishing scheme

Windows mobile app store, My Phone service officially opening

Tech pioneers win 2009 Nobel Prize in Physics

IBM Research jumps into genetic sequencing

Did Viacom find smoking gun in YouTube case?… Read more

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 run natively on a computer's operating system. That would improve the competitive position of Web applications such as Google Docs compared to Microsoft Office--and thereby boost Google's Chrome OS project in comparison with Windows.

Also on the podcast: Don't shoot your iPhone, Windows 7 means cheap laptops, and the FTC tells bloggers to disclose their conflicts.

Today's … Read more

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 customer satisfaction surveys.

Also on the podcast: Facebook raises Latin from the dead, Twitter unveils its own version of Google Labs, Cirque du Soleil in space, and a new use for old computer cases--urns.

Today's stories:

Is the iPhone hurting AT&T's brand?

Et tu, Zuckerberg? Latin translation comes to Facebook… Read more