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Scott is a developer who has worked on projects of varying sizes, including all of the PLUGHITZ Corporation properties. He is also known in the gaming world for his time supporting the rhythm game community, through DDRLover and hosting tournaments throughout the Tampa Bay Area. Currently, when he is not working on software projects or hosting F5 Live: Refreshing Technology, Scott can often be found returning to his high school days working with the Foundation for Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST), mentoring teams and helping with ROBOTICON Tampa Bay. He has also helped found a student software learning group, the ASCII Warriors, currently housed at AMRoC Fab Lab.

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!

It's official - the longest running rumor in the technology industry was finally settled today as Verizon Wireless announced their new partnership with Apple to bring the company's iPhone 4 to Verizon's CDMA network. The phone will become available starting February 10 at Verizon Wireless stores, Apple stores and online. As of right now, there appears to be no third-party sales of the device. Sorry, Best Buy.

Semiconductors are an interesting technology. Like most metals, they conduct electricity and also like most metals, they have resistance. The difference is, semiconductors can have their resistance altered by outside influences, such as temperature and components.

At the Consumer Electronics Show (CES), Skype made a huge announcement when they said they were going to acquire the enemy video-chatting company Qik. At that time, nobody knew any terms of the deal but Skype did say that everything would be finalized by the end of the month. Skype sources even said there would be a "focus on providing a richer, more integrated experience that will allow people globally to share experiences in real-time video across different platforms".

We mentioned over a year ago about GameStop hiring an executive to manage digital distribution and followed up with an article about DLC being sold in their stores, but now GameStop wants to link to your Xbox Live account to bring you content that you can already download from the comfort of your home.

While RIM might have wowed us with the BlackBerry PlayBook last week, they are wowing us in a whole new way this week. Not because one of their products is so good but because one of their marketing people is so very, very bad.

Google made a very interesting announcement this week; they will be discontinuing support for H.264, the standard for high definition video, in the next release of their Chrome browser. Google's official Chromium blog stated,

Anyone who has spent any time around the PLuGHiTz offices will know we are HUGE fans of the CBS comedy, Big Bang Theory. That being said, we are very excited to hear the news that the series was just renewed for another 3 seasons. That means we will be able to enjoy the antics of Sheldon, Leonard, Penny, Howard and Raj through the middle of 2014.

Europeans are quite familiar with Spotify, which is an online music service similar to a mix between last.fm and iTunes. You can listen to music with their free service on your computer (with some ads included). Optionally, you can choose to access it from a mobile device or to connect with your friends and share music sans the ad barrage for a monthly fee. So far Spotify has only been a European service.