Dan Farber from CNET has written up a blog post showing a brand new design and logo for CNET.com. The logo sees CNET being "cnet" and not "c|net" - changing the logo for the first time.

As well, the design is also ditching the "yellow and green" design in favour of a "carnival of colours". It is also releasing a new API on the design as well so it can deliver pages "40 to 50 percent faster" and it will make it easier for their partners to work with CNET content.

Here are the images of the new homepage and reviews page.

ABC’s Summer Heights High brings ABC in line with the BBC. (Terence Huynh/Reawaken Media)

Apple has just released something that has made us very happy here at TECHGEEK - TV Shows on iTunes. This long awaited feature brings Australia in line with the US and the UK with television show downloads.

The current lineup features US shows from ABC Studios and Disney Channel, both owned by Disney - which Steve Jobs has a Board of Directors seat; and Viacom. Australian content includes ABC and the Nine Network.

To me, this now brings ABC almost near to the standards to what its British counterpart, the BBC, has done online. ABC now allows you to watch video, even archived material on some shows, from 2005. It has published its news videos in Flash - a common format, and has now started a ‘IPTV’ service - which is kinda crap, but still good.

But also, this sees something weird. The ABC offers many of its shows for free on its website in podcast form - like Summer Heights High in 2007. As well, ABC Studios mainly have Seven broadcasting their programs, meaning that Apple might delay it until the entire season has been screened or release it early, bringing the wrath of Seven.

There is also another flaw. All ISPs, excluding iiNet which allows unlimited downloads on iTunes content, may need to readjust their plans or you will need to move to a bigger plan or another ISP as the files are around 500MB per file. This means you could be wasting 7GB for just one season of Lost, which contains 14 episodes.

Nine’s offering includes Sea Patrol and the failed series Canal Road, while ABC’s offerings include its popular shows: The Chaser’s War on Everything and Summer Heights High; with other shows like Foreign Correspondent.

The only other channels I want on iTunes are Foxtel, Seven, Ten and the BBC. The BBC for Doctor Who, Ten for Good News Week (though it’s avaliable in Podcast), Seven for All Saints and City Homicide and Foxtel because of its ‘Showcase’ content. What channels/studios do want to be on iTunes?

All episodes are priced $2.99, and are most likely to be encoded in the same DRM which Apple uses on its TV shows sold in the US.

The Internet Corporation of Assigned Names and Numbers, who regulates all domain names like .net and .com, is expected to vote on the new names after it opened its annual general meeting on Monday in Paris.

Users will be able to get domains like .love, .paris or .bank. This will see it being one of the largest shakeups on the internet if it is approved. This move is due to allow more names to be registered as .com and .net are more likely to have that name taken (like techgeek.com!)

Many of the domains are specifically targeted to different regions or businesses. While .com and .net are specifically used for companies and networks, they have become the two most popular domain names. Region-specific domains like .asia and .eu have been recently approved after backing by the regions.

More than 1,300 delegates from 130 countries will vote on the new proposal.

Nokia has announced that it will aquire the remaining 52% of Symbian, the developers of the Series 60 operating system on many of Nokia’s phones. As well, it will also release the entire source code as Open Source, licensing it under the Eclipse Open Source License.

Also, it will create a “Symbian Foundation”, which will allow mobile vendors and manufacturers to join and will oversee the company’s plan for an open source mobile architecure and its trademarks.

According to TechCrunch IT, the approximate shares of all operating systems are: Symbian with 60%, Windows Mobile with 15%, RIM with 10% and the iPhone has 7%. The 8% is for all the other mobile operating systems.

The buzz on the game Super Smash Bros. Brawl is amazing and many people are going as far to say that it is the greatest game that will ever come out on the Wii console.

The old characters are still in the game like Mario and Link, but new inclusions like Wario and Zero-suit Samus have brought through new and more exciting prospects. Some aspects like all new finisher moves where each character has a different finisher as well as new added features of being able to create new levels. Brawl contains 41 selectable stages, with 29 initially available, the levels often change form and can even change season, day and night.

The game due to be released on the 26th of June 2008 in Australia could well be the game that proves the Wii is a good console rather than the stereotype that it is bad.

On one of the comments on our posts (Oh Wait - Telstra is going to sell the iPhone), we could have an exclusive.

Justin has said that he contacted 3 and they said that they will be selling the iPhone. 3 wouldn’t say anything else, but they said that they will be releasing it on the same day as “the other carriers”.

I haven’t confirmed it - but I will call them up tomorrow, or get James to do it - he has 3.

Hello everyone,

We want your opinions about what should we do on the new TECHGEEK Theme. Why do we want your opinion? Because it will help us suit the needs of a majority and not a minority.

Since TECHGEEK is part of the Reawaken Media, our parent company has released a special developers forums. You can find it at http://dev.reawaken.info/forums. You do need to sign up to view the forums.

After that, you just look for the "TECHGEEK Dev" Section. Simple and Easy. Unless you are a developer, which allows you to view some of the source code and template ideas.

As well, if you want to have a special dedicated TECHGEEK forums, please do say. We will be using bbPress so it would integrate with our Wordpress CMS - unless you like having two separate accounts.

- Terence

NEWS IN BRIEF: TechCrunch is reporting that Nokia has acquired Plazes, a German social network. Pricing has not been disclosed.

It plans to keep its thirteen employees and its Berlin office, but the network will be under Nokia’s Services & Software unit.

The Wall Street Journal is suggesting that Google’s Android suite of mobile software will be hit with delays after it and 30 other partners are having problem to meet with the deadline of the fourth quarter of 2008.

It also suggests that the hold up of the suite is due to T-Mobile’s plans to launch a device in the fourth quarter and that is taking the attention away from other carriers, an executive reshuffle at Sprint and its Chinese partner, China Mobile, is having trouble translating Android into Chinese characters.

Also, developers are also having a hard time to write applications for the suite after Google keeps making changes to the source code to finish its own software.

Joining the long list of executives leaving Yahoo (TechCrunch has a list of the executives, too long to count); both the founders of Flickr and Del.icio.us have left their posts at Yahoo.

Stewart Butterfield and Caterina Flake, the husband-and-wife founders of Flickr, and Joshua Schachter, the founder of Del.icio.us, have all resigned from their posts. Both of their companies were aquired in 2005 by Yahoo - both very popular sites on Yahoo’s network of sites.

While Butterfield left on June 13, his wife Flake will leave on July 12. Schachter, speaking to the Michael Arrington, has said that his decision was due to the recent news from Yahoo.

Yahoo has been gaining bad press in recent months, due to its acqusition by Microsoft and its new non-exclusive search advertising deal with Google. As well, as mentioned, many executives have left the company - with many resigning since the start of 2007. Jerry Yang started his CEO position in June 2007.