Podcast highlight: Microsoft to Google: Match this!

If you had billions to spend and wanted to knock Google back into the Stone Age, what would the strategy look like? Find out by listening to CNET News.com reporter Ina Fried, who is in Seattle this week to report on Microsoft's ambitious plans to regain the initiative from its Internet rival.

Also, reporter Tom Krazit has the scoop from the World Congress on Information Technology conference in Austin, Texas, where tech delegates from 80 different nations have assembled to vote on a tech agenda for '06 and beyond. And don't miss the cyber food fight royale between Michigan history professor Juan Cole and bad-boy essayist Christopher Hitchens, as well as the rest of the day's news, in the CNET News.com daily podcast.