Gadgetory

hi I'm Molly wood and welcome to the buzz report first off I want to thank all of you for the cards and letters you sent while I was in my snake bite induced coma not I can't believe you all liked that clone better than me well too bad people that's the last you're gonna see of her or her little friend Hector for quite some time anyway now for the gadget of the week the gadget of the week is the Alienware Aurora ma LX gaming a laptop now this is like a super-high-end 19 inch it's 20 pounds never mind gaming laptop with incredible performance and speed but the best part about it is that when you open the box you'll find all kinds of crazy extras there's like a pen a keychain there's this t-shirt here which even has a collar look at that there's some really nice headphones actually these guys there's uh oh yeah you get a nice gaming mouse it even has extra weights inside so you can trick it out just perfect it's got a luggage tag obviously and you need that it's got this crazy like leather portfolio thing guess if you take some notes on your gameplay and then all of that gets packed up in this humongous backpack now I know this all sounds pretty generous until I tell you that the ma LX starts at $4,500 now that changes things for you doesn't it now you're thinking like t-shirt forget that where's my bottle of Cristal at and now for the news the entire economy of the online role-playing game EVE Online was disrupted this week after a huge savings and loan scandal occurred in the game a con man tricked hundreds of players into putting all their money into his bank and then ran off with all the money now the game players are furious and they want the authorities to get involved of course the legal arguments have stalled since it turns out that none of the money was real but I say so what if the money wasn't real the feelings were after a deluge of complaints from customers and a sudden interest from the FCC Verizon has decided that it like BellSouth will drop new fees that appeared to replace federal fees that those telcos no longer have to pay both BellSouth and Verizon recently tacked these new fees onto your bill and they just so happened to be the exact amounts as these federal Universal Service Fund fees that they recently got to stop paying the difference of course is that the new fees went straight into Verizon in BellSouth pockets and the old fees went to library schools low-income in rural areas we asked Verizon in BellSouth why they drop the new fees so suddenly and they replied busted amazon.com this week revealed the prices and the shipping date for Windows Vista according to the site Vista will ship on January 30th 2007 and here at the various prices and licenses a Windows Vista Home basic upgrade will cost 99 95 or $1.99 for the full version Windows Vista Home Premium will cost 159 for the upgrade and 239 for the full version Windows Vista business will cost $1.99 for the upgrade and $2.99 for the full version and Windows Vista ultimate will cost 259 for the upgrade and 399 for the full version Microsoft will also sell up to eight additional licenses for other pcs in your home or business and those costs will range from 89.95 for a home base $59 for a full version of ultimate on your second PC they're easy this week RadioShack laid off 450 employees at its Fort Worth headquarters over email or it was just a malicious Trojan that broke into the RadioShack database and emailed the entire contact list you could try that maybe that story will get you like one extra paycheck sorry guys I'm Molly wood and this has been the buzz report thanks for watching