Here are the shownotes for episode #45 for the Global Geek News Podcast.

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Stories:

• Smoking near Apple computers creates biohazard, voids warranty
• Netbooks have higher failure rates than laptops
• Google’s Chrome OS, the next big thing or Google’s great blunder?
• Microsoft: Azure to go live in January, for pay in February
• Bing captures 10% of the search market in the US
• Banned Xbox 360 modders unite with a class action lawsuit against Microsoft
• New York tests Xbox-based alert system
• Sony to expand the PlayStation Network into Sony Online Service, sell music, books and videos
• “Unfriend” declared word of the year
• Digg CEO Adelson:  “I don’t think people expect to pay for news anymore”

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Host:  Jeremy Bray & Wesley Faulkner

Special Guest:  Randall Bennett from TechVi.com