Gadgetory

hi I'm Molly Wood and welcome to the buzz report and now for the gadget of the week on location the gadget of the week is championship sprint this is part of the history of video games Museum here at e3 2006 this is really more my speed when it comes to gaming all you do is go around a little track and pick up golden wrenches and try not to get picked up by a little race track tornado that happens all the time right it's no Grand Theft Auto I admit but then again I never was much for killing cops and now for the news so as you can see I've just returned from e3 the giant games and entertainment show held each year in Los Angeles and this was the first year that we saw new restrictions on the use of so-called booth babes the Entertainment Software Association prohibited sexually explicit clothing nudity partial nudity and bathing suit bottoms on the other hand a giant video screen showing an alien scorpion jumping on a guy's back driving a stake through the back of his head and blowing his face off while blood spatters onto the barrel of your still smoking machine gun that's totally fine yeah in other news the city of New York will be expanding free Wi-Fi into Central Park now you can get outside enjoy the sunshine fire up your laptop and surf the internet at gunpoint no just kidding there were fewer than a hundred crimes in Central Park in 2005 of course that was before they turned it into an all you can steal laptop and PDA buffet the three largest phone companies in the u.s. say they absolutely did not turn over any customer phone records to the NSA in related news Skype is offering free outgoing internet calls to the US and Canada through the rest of the year they can't tap the internet can they speaking of skypes free phone calls the company says the move is just a promotional event but industry analysts say they're doing it because of competition from the big three I am clients but I don't think that's really why I mean it's true I forgot to call my mom on Mother's Day but that doesn't mean he had to go reorganize the economics of the world telecommunications industry cheese and finally in other business news the battle over tiered internet proposals and net neutrality is really heating up and it's gotten really political and there's a rally this week in favor of protecting the Internet's open democratic architecture and Mobe is one of the scheduled speakers man Mobe seriously nobody's gonna go for net neutrality now I'm Molly wood and this has been the buzz report thanks for watching you