Episode 222 - Show Notes

Episode 222

Sunday Sep 25, 2011 (01:24:15)

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This week, Nvidia changes mobile computing with 5 cores, Verizon shows us 100G is no problem and Hulu breaks 1 million subscribers.

Participants

Nicholas DiMeo

Host, Segment Host

With over ten years of audio engineering experience, Nick's addition to PLuGHiTz Corporation is best served when he is behind the mixing board every Sunday night to produce the audio side of F5 Live: Refreshing Technology, Piltch Point and PLuGHiTz Live Night Cap. While mixing live every week, his previous radio show hosting experience gives him the ability to co-host as well, giving each show a unique flare with his slightly off-center, yet still realistic take on all things tech. An integral part of the show, you can find Nick always enveloped in coming up with new (and sometimes crazy) ideas and content for the show and you can always expect the most direct opinion on the stories that he feels need to be shared with the world. During the few hours where Nick isn't sleeping or working on ways to improve the company, he spends his free time going to hockey and football games and playing the latest titles on Xbox 360. Email him for his gamertag and add him today for a fun escape from the normal monotony and annoyance that the Xbox LIVE gaming community can sometimes be!

Jon Wurm

Host

Jon is a F5 Live co-host and UpStream contributor as well as the Chief Cash Officer of PLuGHiTz Corporation. We don't know how he wears so many hats so well or how he still finds time to feed his need for all things tech but some questions are best left unanswered. If you're up for a challenge go find him on Xbox Live @shinobiJon and if you figure him out...let us know.

Allante Sparks

Host

Allante - also well known as Wolff - is the newest member and co-host for PLuGHiTz Live! Radio. A gifted artist, he is usually found drawing up a character or two or sketching up whatever comes to mind. Do not think that he is not a hardcore gamer because he is about as hardcore as it gets! His favorites range from fighting games to RPGs, adventure and even a racing game here and there. Fighting games are his forte and he relays this message for all who oppose: You mess with the Wolff and you get the fangs!

XB360 - Enigmatic Wolff

PSN - Tsukuyomi_Okami

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Nvidia has a five-core quad-core named Kal-El

During Mobile World Congress in February this year, Nvidia made a powerful showing with their super-powered mobile quad-core CPU, appropriately named Kal-El. It put the Tegra 2 and Core2Duo to shame according to the Coremark benchmark. Its 12-core GPU also blew us away with stunning 1440p game demos that made all of us here at PLuGHiTz Live! Radio think it could change the way mobile computing works, and as it turns out, we were right because Kal-El has a secret fifth core.

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GameStop to Sell a Certified Gaming Tablet

GameStop has been making some very strange and/or questionable decisions as of late. They learned from EA about the devious ways of digital distribution, they've tampered with content found in brand new games and they've even started to belive that Apple products are so shiny that even they can make money off of an iPod. So what's GameStop doing now to go along with this steady stream of slightly insane? They're going to sell tablets, of course! Not just any tablet, though, as GameStop is going to be selling their own GameStop branded two-handheld device.

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Forget 4G, Verizon Cranks Up Their Backbone Speed to 100G

Ever wanted to download a full Blu-ray movie in a few seconds? Well, very soon your prayers may be answer and you will be able to thank Verizon for making it happen. Big Red has said this week that it will be accomplishing an industry first when it flips the switch on its already-deployed 100Gbps data connection. You heard right: 100Gbps. This is technology so fast, that an MP3 file would be downloaded before you could even think of wanting to listen to it.

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Hulu Hits 1 Million Paid Subscribers

Things might be looking up for Hulu, finally. CEO Jason Kilar said this week that the video streaming service has over 1 million paid subscribers on its network, meeting its numbers that the company predicted earlier in the year. With Hulu still up for sale, this certainly adds a lot of value to the company, who has been struggling in recent months to gain any traction in a market of new, rising services.

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