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If you need a guitar to work on new songs without disturbing anyone or need a game controller for your Rock Band or Guitar hero, then You Rock Guitar is for you. It’s a fully functional guitar that works for musicians and game aficionados. You can even record yourself using different instruments with audio sampling.

Jeffrey Powers talks with JR on this new product. Jeff plays a couple licks and shows off his monster skills – well, maybe not monster skills, but skills nontheless.

The You Rock Guitar is a fully functional guitar – with many different samples built in. You can choose multiple guitars sounds, or if you need to write for another instrument, choose what you need and strum away. With the USB and MIDI ports, you can bring in and take out to the computer. With the audio imputs, you can connect an iPod or MP3 player and jam to a song.

What was pretty impressive is the You Rock Guitar is also a game controller. And it doesn’t matter the game system. You plug in a Gameflex cartridge and you can play Rock Band or Guitar Hero on your XBOX 360, PS3 or Wii. New guitar game comes out – you get the new cartridge. Fully functional for all your rockin needs.

Another great addition to the You Rock Guitar is the SDK for it. Become the next big game programmer or music composer with the You Rock Guitar. Develop a system that will teach everyone how to play guitar with an interactive system.

The You Rock Guitar was also featured on our live show at the NBC Universal Stage. Check it out.

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1993 – a Shareware copy was uploaded through a server at the University of Wisconsin (and although I was going to school there at the time, it wasn’t me – HONEST). The end result was the beginning of the first-person shooter. For those who do not want to read the Doom Bible, the story is about a Marine who assaults a senior officer, therefore was incarcerated on Mars at the Union Aerospace Corporation. His job was to overlook the teleportation device.

However, the device goes haywire and a whole bunch of creatures come out of the portal. The player is told to secure until help arrives. Unfortunately, that means heading through the establishment and defending from the monsters that attack.

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Other Historical Events in Technology

• XBOX 360 hits Japan
• Yahoo lays off 1,500 with a controversial severance package
• IBM 7320 drum

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1994 – The Sega Saturn is released featuring 2 28.6 MHz processors running 32 bit. It had 2 video display processors, QSound surround and 2 MB of memory, with 1.5MB of video memory. It went for 44,800 Yen, or $450.

2005 – Microsoft launches the XBOX360. It contained a IBM PowerPC with 3 cores at 3.2 GHz a core. It contained a 500 MHz ATI card and 512 MB of RAM. There were several versions starting at $249 and going up to $399. The limited Halo 3 version had a specially crafted case.

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Other Day in Tech History items:

• Bill Gates and John Sculley sign a licensing agreement
• Movies Back to the Future II, Independence Day and Revenge of the Nerds were released
• Verizon employees were fired for looking at Barak Obama’s phone records

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I – S.U.N. (Straight Up News)
Twitter Attacks Fakes – Are you Authentic?
Bing Leaps Yahoo
Ballmer: Taxes could Move Jobs – If Taxes rise, Employees might not be in the US.
XBOX 360 with HULU? – They’re looking at new opportunities.
China Security Software – Where Big Brother can watch.
Homeland Security Gets Black Hat
-Full List of Names
Cyberspace Review Lacking – Security Experts want more
Bank Trojan Netted $112k – What came from YOUR wallet?
WINEHQ 1.1.23
40 Years of UNIX

Leo Blowing up at Arrington

II
Keynote: iPhone 3.0 – Tomtom coming. More on Keynote
-Windows Gets Stuff, too
-Old iPhone 1.0 May Loose Out
Pre Breaks Sales – Is it enough to save Sprint?
-Pre Issue
T-Mobile Data Hacked – How it affects users.

CTC – Scarpar
QOTC – Would you Pay $1 a Twitter?

III
Yahoo Microsoft Partnership? – AOL is out.
Online Ad Revenues Drop – Should we be concerned?

Extras:
The Worst Yahoo Answers
7 Years of Mozilla
Best Science Websites
Death Star BBQ
USB Powered Microwave
Best PC Cases

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Leo and Arrington – Warning: Strong Language present.
-Apologies and explaination

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HBO announced today they will be putting content online for their subscribers. CBS, NBC, ABC, FOX and CW have full episodes of shows online. Even pay cable channels like TBS and Spike TV are putting shows online. Even Netflix has increased the limits to watching movies online, and new services are starting to do the same subscription movie viewing.
No more having to go to the video store and get a movie or season of a popular TV show. No more waiting for the next time it broadcasts. It will be there at your fingertips. This is just another example of how the internet is replacing TV and DVD as we know it. But can the internet handle it?

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