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Deals of the Week / New Releases

• Lord of Ultima: Free to Play MMO (think Evony? still need to play)

• ScrAppbook. It is no. 5 today in the US Appstore under the category for Photography and it is possibly more importantly now in the New and Noteworthy section of the App Store homepage. Still only $.99 and we have a code to giveaway still… (not sure if anyone sent pics to FB fan page??) – We’ll give it away in the chat room (SM)

• Free Comic Book Day on Saturday
  • Does not mean you get the latest Superman…
  • Companies make a special book for the day and what you get depends on the publisher
  • This year there will be 10 gold comics to collect. Everything from Ironman and Thor action to GI Joe
  • 23 Silver ones will be rarer to find but will have some of the “out there” stuff if you are already a huge comic collector
  • Can anyone say fraggle rock flip book?

• Tecmo Bowl Throwback Released for XBLA
  • Mmmmm. Tecmo bowl, how we missed the walter payton run!
  • This is the only sports game that I played the heck out of, besides “Pro-Wrestling” (STARMAN FTW!)
  • Its back on xbla. you can either play “classic” or “3-D”!!!! definitely a must by
  • Promises all the old gameplay including seasons!

• SteamPunk 3D Goggles
  • although I think 3D tv at home is a fad… These are COOL!
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Geek Speak

• Microsoft unveils webcomic site

• Tell your IT horror story and get paid!!! (100 lbs / Sony Vaio X)
• some absolute hilarious ones on there…

SM – My “Tech” letter, Internet support

JP – Old desktop days… power….

Geek Speak Topic from JP Interactive Clothing… (SM)

• email counting interactive TShirt
• Dress that taps your shoulder when you get a facebook update
  • you can program different taps for different people’s updates…
• ForceFeedback Gamers Jacket (feel when you get virtually shot…)
• Shape Memory clothing
  • Apply a current and the fabric takes a certain shape… apply a different current and the fabric takes a totally different shape…
• Where we can see uses for this? Where can we see this going wrong???
  • (Interactive undergarments…) ewwwww
• What interactive clothing would you like???

Tech,Gaming, and Geek News

• MW2 PC Version of Stimulus Announced (JP)
  • May 4 is the new date on STEAM
  • $1.50 off the $15.00 price for pre-orders+ because PC is cool like that

• Activision hit with $500 million MW2 lawsuit (SM)
  • 39 employees have banded together in a class action suit to get their royalties
  • Claim that the bonuses have been withheld so that they won’t jump ship
  • Already there is a lawsuit by the IW heads for $36 million (they left to form Respawn entertainment)
  • That whole debacle went down in full site of everyone. He said / he said, you’re not getting your bonuses for nitpicking. blah blah blah
  • How will this effect MW3?

• Gizmodo Reporter Home PC’s Confiscated by Law Enforcement (JP)
  • 1st amendment evoked, not so fast though…
  • Apple Inc is on the steering committee for Join Task force
  • Thoughts on free speech vs. criminal activity

• Google Backs off Verizon Nexus One (SM)
  • No real explanation as to what fell through here… No execs available to answer ??’s…
  • odd for Google to be so quiet, perhaps they just don’t like any talk about their ‘failures’
  • The good and the bad of this….
  • Google created a great Os that can allow phones to compete with the iPhone, but they tried to hamstring their partners
  • Nexus one initiative was doomed from the start and now with companies standing up to them it shows..

• Cell Phone Exploits Exposed (JP)
  • pair of security researchers has discovered a number of new attack vectors that give them the ability to not only locate any GSM mobile handset anywhere in the world,
  • but also find the name of the subscriber associated with virtually any cellular phone number,
  • While most people are screaming for privacy concerns stalkers all over the world jumped for joy
  • Paris Hilton doesn’t understand what the fuss is about since everyone always knows where she is anyhow? HAHAHHA

• Futuristic Non-touch interface ahoy (JP)
  • uses a camera to read your gestures…
  • cool tech, still a ways away… this is one of many approaches out there right now being researched
  • eventually a lot of things are headed this way… not all will be hits…
  • funniest thing to me is when the reviewer says this looks like it will take some getting used to… Didn’t they say the same thing about the iPhone multitouch???
  • how many people have adapted to that now?

• RIM unveils new OS (SM)
  • Trying to make themselves more IPhone-y yet still enterprisable
  • Webkit browser (similar to Android)
  • Multi-touch, HTML 5, brand new home screen, still no firm real features yet (screen sizes, proc speed, memory, etc)
  • Is it enough to stave off IPhone and Android to keep the #2 position?
  • Guess #1? (Nokia – Symbian OS 47% of smartphone sales in 2009)

• Spongebob saved this girls life
  • she learned the heimlich while watchin sponge bob dislodge a clarinet…
  • her friend choked on some gum
  • She remembers goes around back , and does the procedure that saves her friends life
  • So when your kids say that Spongebob is quality educational programming, you better believe them!

• Man gets the Mike tyson treatment for calling a woman fat… she bit off part of his right ear!
  • Way to crush that stereotype and not eat everything in sight?!?!?!? WTH????
  • Note to self… don’t call anyone fat in Nebraska…
• Also from Nebraska…. Man robs store disguised by TP
  • Yes, some guy wrapped his head in Toilet Paper and robbed a store getting away ‘clean’

• Star Trek Barbershop Quartet
• He who lives in glass house, should not throw the first stone
• How Steve Jobs COULD have reacted to the Gizmodo fiasco
• Jason Chen’s computer’s dissected

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