CNET News Daily Podcast

The 2008 Summer Olympics can be watched online more than any Olympics past, which is no surprise. But how smoothly is all the streaming going, and how many people are tuning in to watch the Games on their computers? CNET News reporter and sports enthusiast Ina Fried breaks it down.

Plus, Business Week is calling Infineon's chip inside the iPhone 3G the root cause of the reception problems that numerous iPhone 3G owners have reported. The good news, according to the publication, is that Apple believes it can fix the problems with a software upgrade; the company is said to be testing an update that could be released as early as the end of this month.

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Today's stories:

Beijing 2008: Tech gets in on the Games

Report: Software fix in the works for iPhone 3G

HSBC could order 200,000 iPhones

Apple market cap tops Google

Intel USB 3.0 update resolves dispute with Nvidia, AMD

Intel readies new remote PC access function

Netflix users suffering service's longest outage ever

Logitech snaps up Ultimate Ears for $34 million

Facebook declares support for new nonprofit ServiceNation

Hunters claim to have nabbed Bigfoot, Internet goes nuts

Back from covering the Defcon hacker fest, CNET News' Declan McCullagh explains the aftermath of a decision by a federal judge granting the Massachusetts transit authority's request for an injunction, preventing three MIT students from giving a presentation about hacking smart cards used in the Boston subway system...Olympics viewership is stronger than it's been in the last decade. But the company still hasn't figured out a strategy to best take advantage of the Internet. Webware's Rafe Needleman has a few suggestions...With hostilities escalating between Russia and Georgia, the battle has now predictably crossed over into cyberspace.

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Today's stories:

Apple, AT&T mum on iPhone 3G issues

Flash, HTML, Ajax: Which will win the Web app war?

Heat from car exhaust could improve mileage

Verizon averts workers strike

Jobs confirms iPhone app blacklist feature

Defcon ends with researchers muzzled, viruses written

'Extreme' gamers padding video game industry's bottom line

Tiffany appeals loss in counterfeit suit against eBay

Microsoft recently pulled an operating system switcharoo--a la the Folgers taste test or the Pepsi Challenge--on a focus group with the hopes of changing public perception of Windows Vista. Now the company has posted some of the videos of people's reactions online. But will the marketing scheme work? And separately, while in Redmond, reporter Ina Fried got an up-close look at an experimental research project, called Sphere. News intern Holly Jackson checks in with Ina on both those stories.

Also in this podcast: after a 17-month antitrust saga, satellite radio companies Sirius and XM are now one; a new line of MacBooks expected to arrive soon might not include Intel's Montevina chipset; IBM's trying to reduce the number of "senior moments" people have (demo video embedded below); and Beijing considers emergency measures to improve its polluted air in time for the Olympics.

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Today's stories:

Sirius and XM close merger

Intel outside Apple's pending MacBook launch?

BT guns for Android and Skype with Ribbit buy

IBM mobile software helps 'senior moments' (video below)

Microsoft goes live with Mojave videos

Taking Microsoft's Sphere for a spin

Adobe hopes Lightroom captures photo trends

In Beijing, blue skies prove hard to achieve

'Scrabulous' disappears from Facebook

Rev3 says it's nailed the culprit of DOS attacks that hit the site; Lenovo preps for the Olympics; and a marketing firm that's helping other companies get green.
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In one of the odder stories to hit the tech world in a while, Revision3 has investigated the denial-of-service attack that kept it offline over the Memorial Day weekend and has concluded that antipiracy group MediaDefender is the culprit.

With the Beijing Olympics only a few months away, Lenovo is gearing up for a major dress rehearsal to make sure the technology for the games works as anticipated.

And San Francisco-based marketing firm The Communication Group isn't just about touting its clients' environmental friendliness. It's about showing them how to be more green. CNET News.com intern Hanna Sistek tells News.com's Leslie Katz about TCG's "Green Prepare" program.