Show #79

[Download Show #79 as MP3]

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
    
• 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
    

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.