Comcast is on a roll this week. On Tuesday it began its public pilot of a bandwidth monitoring system for its customers to figure out exactly how much they're downloading each month. This comes a little more than a year after the company announced it would be capping users at 250GB per month.
More importantly, reports say that General Electric and Vivendi have reached a tentative agreement that helps pave the way for Comcast to buy NBC Universal. If, or rather when, that deal is sealed, Comcast would expand its media reach outside of its service roots into being a content provider of its own.
Today's episode runs 7:38.
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Report: GE, Vivendi reach deal to clear NBC sale
Comcast beta launches bandwidth meter
Psystar said to have deal with Apple
Prime time for YouTube? Google wants to stream TV, for a fee
Michael Jackson tops Google, Yahoo search in 2009
DARPA's latest challenge: Locate these 10 balloons
This year, you can stalk Santa from your car
Black Friday will be here in mere weeks, but the extended warranty business runs year round. What are some things to watch out for, and do you really need to buy a warranty for some of the smaller ticket items? We get CNET News reporter (and fellow CNET News Daily Podcast host) Erica Ogg in the studio to give us a breakdown on tech warranties, along with what gadgets you should and shouldn't buy one of these warranties for.
We also talk about Best Buy's upcoming video service, batteries made out of zinc, and a new wireless device that's been made just for Twitter.
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Cisco, EMC, and VMWare make alliance official
Best Buy to launch branded movie download service
Dedicated tweeting gadget TwitterPeek launches
Hulu adds episode release schedule
Zinc air battery maker looks beyond lithium
Cisco Systems has pledged to spend more than $6 billion on acquisitions this month, the latest of which comes in at a cool $183 million for Web-based security software company ScanSafe.
We also talk about the Apple tablet everyone keeps spreading rumors about, a computer Trojan that's masquerading as an e-mail from Facebook, and a new printing technology from Xerox that prints electronic circuitry on all sorts of things including fabric. Just think about what that's going to do to the T-shirt industry...
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Cisco to buy cloud security firm for $183 million
More evidence of Apple's nonexistent tablet surfaces
NASA's Ares I-X test flight delayed by weather
Fake Facebook e-mail contains Trojan
Google Voice now (kinda) works with your number
Xerox hopes to print computing smarts on fabric, plastic
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 the world of Netbooks. Tune in to get the scoop.
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Nokia Booklet makes it official: $299 with 2-year AT&T contract
Cisco to buy mobile specialist for $2.9 billion
Pepsi tweets apology for 'bad taste' iPhone app
Facebook database outage cut off about 150,000
Viper's new iPhone app replaces your keychain
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.
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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
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
In today's podcast we talk about the sale of Skype, iRobot's U.S. Army contract, and the NFL's new rules that ban the use of Twitter, Facebook, and other social-networking tools before, during, and after games. We also get CNET senior editor Stephen Shankland in the studio to talk about Windows 7 and its newly flaunted battery-conserving prowess. Is it worth the upgrade just for this feature? Listen to find out.
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Sold! eBay jettisons Skype in $2 billion deal
NFL bans tweeting before, during, after games
iRobot gets single biggest order from Army
Western Digital ships high-speed 2TB drive
Search: Google rules, Europeans do it more
A day after the editor of The Wall Street Journal referred to online news aggregators--particularly Google and its Google News product--as "parasites or tech tapeworms," Google is firing back. CNET News reporter Caroline McCarthy gets to the gist of the conflict.
Plus, why are Kindle owners staging an online protest? That and more of the day's headlines, on Tuesday's CNET News Daily Podcast.
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Today's stories:
Still waiting for GM's city car 'revolution'
Kindle owners stage e-book price protest
End nears for XP, Office 2003 support
Apple updates Xserve with new Xeons
Google to publishers: We're not evil or illegal
Columnist fired after reviewing pirated 'Wolverine'
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What in the world does a farm lobbying organization have to do with Net neutrality--let alone Google? As CNET News.com's Declan McCullagh discovered through his sleuthing, there's a lot more to this story than meets the eye.
If you have more money than you know what to do with, how does a multimillion-dollar jaunt into space sound? Well, it sounded just fab to Sergey Brin.
Martin LaMonica has the scoop on a breakthrough in the manufacture of alternative fuel--this on a day when oil again flirted with an all-time high.
Today's stories:
Yahoo to lose network exec Jeff Weiner?
Pearl Jam goes mobile with authorized bootlegs
Corn farmers take anti-Google fight to Washington
Reports examine causes, victims of data breaches
Icahn issues 'personally liable' warning to Yahoo board
Backstage tech tour at the NBA Finals
Google's Brin books space flight
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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
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