This week, Batman meets Superman, Microsoft faces a billion dollar charge for Surface RT and Apple's website is greeted by hackers.
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.
I think everyone thought Acer was crazy when they told Microsoft back in August to stay out of the tablet industry. However, days after the launch of the latest line of Windows 8 and WinPho 8 products, including the Surface RT, Microsoft's President of Windows, Steven Sinofsky, left the company, which clearly meant Ballmer & Co. believed that the launch of the Surface RT either could have been better or that RT in general was a bit crazy. It appeared that Sinofsky seemed confident RT would take off and excel well in the market, however the numbers from this week's earnings call leads us to believe Microsoft was right in removing Sinofsky from his position.
In the least shocking EA news of the year, the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) has decided that it will not renew its licensing contract with EA Sports. This means that we will not see an NCAA Football 15 coming from the publisher. This news comes after a group of current and former college athletes sued the NCAA for profiting from their likenesses without providing any compensation to those athletes.
Any developers, specifically Apple developers, were stumped this week as to why they may have had problems accessing the Apple developer website. For those affected, an email should have just reached your inbox explaining what happened. Apple said that email addresses, names and even actual addresses might have been compromised in an apparent website hacking.
It has finally happened - The Caped Crusader and The Man of Steel will be coming together on the big screen for the first time. Henry Cavill, the most recent Superman from this summer's Man of Steel will reprise his roll, along with Amy Adams, Laurence Fishburne and Diane Lane.