Show #79
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News
- Skype Announces Monthly Subscription Plans
- Plans are
- 2.95/month for US and Canada
- 5.95/month for US, Canada, and Mexico
- 9.95/month for US, Canada, and 34 international countries
- This kind of payment plan was previously unavailable
- You were limited to 3/12 month subscription plans
- 33% Discounts on 3 or 12 month subscriptions
- Plans are
- Apple Updates the iMac
- Apple's iPhone vs. R.I.M.'s BlackBerry
- Top 10 Reasons Why the iPhone is NO Blackberry <-- this will probably bring about some interesting discussion
- Go over precedents on taking over the corporate market (windows 95 anyone?)
- Customs Agents Can Search Your Laptop, Mobile Phone, and Digital Camera at the Borders
- Microsoft Says they'll Pay More for Yahoo ($33/share, Yahoo wants $37)
Hardware
- Digital TV
- Upgrade Coupons: https://www.dtv2009.gov/
Software
- JiveTalk IM Client
- BlackBerry
- 19.95 for single device
- 29.95 for a user license
- iPhone
- Windows Mobile 6
- BlackBerry
Gamer's Corner
- Unreal Tournament Super Mario Mod
- PC or PS3
- Omega Pedal for Rock Band
- $80 to $150
- PS3 or XBox
- GTA IV - It's all the rage (They were talking about it on the First team on Fox Sports Show this morning)
- The only game you can pay a hooker, hook it up, kick her out of your car, drive over her, and retrieve the money laying right beside her after you're done
- You too can date a cyber byte with the ultimate goal of a shag fest, in a main stream game no less
- Niko, an immigrant, is your single player anti-hero
- Rockstar's RAGE engine coupled with NaturalMotion's Euphoria engine to produce outstanding graphics and natural kinesthesiology and Physics
- Everything accessed from your phone - IMs, Missions, Multiplayer, hookers, etc
- Online modes - 12 different types
- Party lobby is outskirts of city with guns and cars to keep you occupied while waiting for friends
- Free Mode (fully customizable with cops and all)
- Team DeathMatch - cover system makes this not like quake
- Mafiya Work - work to order from mob boss. first to complete gets the points
- Car Jack City - Jack specific cars for points
- Turf War - capture the point
- GTA Race - Standard racing game
- Cops'n'Crooks - 2 teams, lawmen and crooks. Lawmen trying to stop the crooks from escaping
- Limited co-op - play with up to 4 friends
- Engaging from the limited amount of time that we had to play with it, compelling story line, beautiful graphics, all 10's online look to be valid.
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