This week, Twitter decides to make LinkedIn a trending topic, Sprint is speeding up its LTE rollout and Google doesn't want you searching for Pirates.
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!
Avram's been in love with PCs since he played original Castle Wolfenstein on an Apple II+. Before joining Tom's Hardware, for 10 years, he served as Online Editorial Director for sister sites Tom's Guide and Laptop Mag, where he programmed the CMS and many of the benchmarks. When he's not editing, writing or stumbling around trade show halls, you'll find him building Arduino robots with his son and watching every single superhero show on the CW.
It was only a week ago that Sprint continued to add onto its 4G LTE network, which started up back in July, and made high-speed data available in four more cities. Compared to Verizon's launch, it's been pretty dismal for the guys in yellow, however, Sprint looked to change that with a big announcement this week.
Apple's stock price has been dipping, so that means it is mandatory "milk the sheep" time. Since the New iPad, whose name will be a lot more fun in 6 months or so when the next one comes out, is already on store shelves, that must mean it is iPhone time. In proper Apple tradition, the CEO, currently Tim Cook, spent time on a mostly empty stage in a fairly nondescript theatre to show off the next small, shiny box from Cupertino.
Following up from last week's potential price and availability of the Wii U, Nintendo's Wii U press conference in New York City finally confirmed the details that we've been waiting to hear about since E3 of last year. One of our favorite company heads, Reggie Fils-Aime, took the stage and started off by addressing the three biggest aspects of the Wii U we wanted to know about: pricing, availability and specs. We now know that Nintendo's next flagship console will be available in the US on November 18th and will start at $299.
You may have noticed that over the past few months that the number of #hashtags on the LinkedIn news feed has gone down markedly. This is because Twitter has, like many times in the past, revoked LinkedIn's ability to read users' Twitter posts and repost to LinkedIn. Because of this, more people are sharing directly to LinkedIn instead of letting their tweets get reposted. As always, they said they want to "provide the core Twitter user experience through a consistent set of products and tools." What that means is we don't want to help a competitor.
About a year and a half ago, Google censored the Internet on their own and removed the word "torrent" (and all related terms) from their Autocomplete and Instant searches. This set off an uproar throughout all different types of online communities, including the beloved pirates, and Google then began to censor other words as well, but backed down on a couple, like MegaUpload, although that site is now shut down. Well, RIAA and MPAA have ramped up the pressure to crack down on piracy and, per the usual spineless actions from Google, the company has responded in fear of RIAA potentially taking away their iTunes library at the Googleplex.