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 working on a tablet PC.
And speaking of portable computers, we get CNET News reporter Erica Ogg in the studio to talk about Dell's new 16" laptop that is able to charge without a traditional power cable. How did they do it? Tune in to find out.
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Vodafone, too, will sell iPhone in U.K.
Google Wave ready for wider testing
Report: Apple brings back Newton developer
Intel to rev up Atom development, executive says
Google, bank resolve issue over misfired e-mail
CNET News's Tom Krazit stops by to handicap Apple's big iPhone operating system announcement.
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Ad projections cut for social networks
Comcast passwords leaked onto the Web
Flypaper may not be the typical tech start-up in that it actually has been able to get a couple of rounds of funding. But like most other young companies, Flypaper faces the same problems as other new technology companies. We speak with founder Don Pierson for his perspective on how start-ups can best ride out the rough patches before the economy stabilizes.
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Intel files $50 million suit against insurer
In Davos, talk of linking clean tech and economy
Microsoft's CEO went to the Consumer Electronics Show to hype his company's upcoming replacement to the Vista operating system. But Steve Ballmer had more on his mind than Windows 7 and he shared some very frank opinions with CNET News' Ina Fried. Ina stops by for a visit to our studios to offer her assessment.
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Dell officially unveils Adamo, Mini 10
Obama's stimulus plan: The energy debate
The RIAA says it's done suing individuals that share music files illegally. Instead, the group will focus on large-scale abusers and file-sharing services. In its place, the RIAA expects ISPs to police their users. CNET News' Greg Sandoval tells us the implications for the RIAA's policy change.
Also on today's podcast: Electronic Arts lays off more, Apple is sued over patents related to Apple TV, major cables carrying Internet traffic between the U.S. Middle East and Africa are damaged, and a look at what Dell may have up its sleeve.
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RIAA drops lawsuits; ISPs to fight file sharing
EA boosts layoffs to 10 percent of workforce
Damaged undersea cables disrupting service
Dell's superthin Adam, due in February?
The first ad for Microsoft featuring new spokesman Jerry Seinfeld appeared last night, and already it's causing a stir. CNET News reporter Ina Fried speaks with a Microsoft Windows consumer marketing specialist about what the software maker hopes to achieve with its latest campaign.
Speaking of campaigns, CNET's Declan McCullagh checks in from the St. Paul, Minn., where he was covering the Republican National Convention.
Also on today's podcast, Dell says it will sell its factories to increase its profit margins, Michael Moore says his next film will skip theaters and head directly to the Internet, and a few things we'd like to see added to Google's Chrome browser.
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McCain talks up oil drilling, green energy
Dell planning to ditch factories
Samsung contemplating SanDisk acquisition
Michael Moore plans Net-only premiere
A year after Asus kicked off the low-cost notebook craze with its Eee PC, Dell, the second-biggest PC maker in the world, is ready with an answer: the Inspiron Mini 9. CNET News reporter Erica Ogg is here to talk about Dell's move into the world of Netbooks.
Also, Spore is finally hitting North America, and GameSpot has an in-depth review.
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Today's stories:
Sony recalls about 438,000 Vaio laptops
Yahoo's stock hits new 52-week low
Apple patent application blends touch, voice, face
Dell plays defense with Mini 9 Netbook
Amazon flicks on its streaming-video service
Microsoft and 12 others invest in Japanese TV
In what's being regarded as a total breach of professional ethics, three reporters from Global Security Mag were removed from the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas on Thursday after attempting to expose the username and passwords of two reporters in attendance, including a CNET News employee. The magazine was a co-sponsor of the event, but the three parties responsible were asked to leave and barred from all future events, including this weekend's DefCon. For more detail, see the accounts from CNET News' Elinor Mills and Robert Vamosi who are in Vegas now.
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Three reporters expelled in network snooping
iPhone 'kill-switch' limited to location-aware apps
CERN set to fire up potent particle accelerator
Report: HTC Android handset delayed
Time was when people reported on wrongdoers in officialdom to their local paper. Increasingly, though, that function has been supplanted by YouTube. CNET News' Greg Sandoval has the tale of how citizen journalists increasingly are taking advantage of communications technology to flex their muscles.
Erica Ogg explains the context for a future move by Dell to challenge Apple's iPod in the digital music player market. And Tabula Rasa players have an opportunity to get their DNA sequenced and added to a time capsule that the game's creator will take with him when he lifts into outer space this fall.
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Rafe Needleman is editor of CNET's Webware. He's been covering technology since 1988, and has interviewed thousands of tech execs. He blogs at 
Leslie Katz is senior editor of CNET News' Crave blog, which focuses on gadgets, games, and all other digital distractions.
Erica Ogg keeps up on the latest consumer electronics and PC goings-on as chief correspondent for CNET News' Crave blog.
Jennifer Guevin is assistant managing editor for CNET News and focuses on science and green tech.
Josh Lowensohn writes for Webware.com, CNET's blog about Web applications and
services. 
