Rockstar Games and Xbox LIVE’s “GTAIV: The Lost and Damned” Game with Fame

We’ve done it again! We Snuck into Rockstar Games(which nobody does) and taped as they put on the Game with Fame with Miss Info, Consequence, Saigon, Sky Zoo, and Termanology playing online multiplayer in Grand Theft Auto IV’s The Lost and Damned, downloadable exclusively on Xbox LIVE. Watch as Tats Tech Talk views this game in Action!! Let us know what you think or ask us your tech Issues @ TatsTechTalk@gmail.com.

Google introduces more stalker tools – Latitude

Its only a short matter of time before this becomes mainstream. Google’s new Latitude service displays user location on Google Maps. Also (nabbing a page from Twitter), you can set your status. So basically you can track where your friends are, and what they say they’re doing. Check it out. (Not avail on iPhone yet) Google Latitude

MAC WORLD 09′

Well it went down today. Sorry there was no Mac Mini. Here are the major announcements:

iTunes will now be (for the most part) DRM FREE !!! That means its now okay for you to buy a song and do whatever the hell with it, including put it on devices other than an iPod.

You can now download music to your iPhone 3G, without being connected to WiFi

The 17″ Unibody Macbook pro was also announced and will be shipping soon. Although they mentioned that the battery life has drastically improved (8hrs), it’s non-removable. How do you guys feel about that??

For those of you iLife and iWork users, the 09 version is shipping with tons of new features. We will have to dig into these in a later post. The new Geo-Tagging / Integration with Facebook is very slick.

The new version of Garage band has something I think is very exciting for the music industry. You can now learn how to play musical instruments, using your Mac. The software comes bundled with video lessons from pro-musicians. To spice things up even more, Apple is reaching out to popular artists and offering premium lessons for around $4.95 a video. This is the kind of progress that the music industry needs. Who knows what this could lead to…..

Walmart Stepping Up

Well thanks to Skippy, we know now that Walmart will be carrying the iPhone 3G soon. Now that Walmart is going to be strong in the wireless department, every other store can officially close. Cheers.

Knight Rider aka Brick…coming to an end.

If you guys have been watching the new Knight Rider series, with the Hoffster’s son. You will be relieved to know that you’re pain and suffering will be coming to an end. according to the IGN TV guys, Kit has run out of gas in its first season. Just curious was anyone able to watch more than one episode of this show???

Blackberry Bold, Gets the Tat’s Tech Talk seal of approval

Tat Wza and Special Guest Young Sav (BestofBothOffices.com / Def Jam) take a in depth look at the Blackberry Bold. Check out the video quality of the Bold, SERIOUS!

NXE: The New XBOX Experience

And another one !! When you log into XBOX live this week, get ready for a whoooole new deal. The New Xbox experience is going to transform your xbox into a networking party machine. The biggest feature being…parties. You can FINALLY do group chat, and group your friends into parties with a slew of activities for you to enjoy. Not to mention XBOX’s netflix deal will be coming to fruition. So you and a group of friends from all over the world can chat while watching the latest flicks. Many other features will be included, like the highly anticipated Avatar, enhanced game loading capabilities, and much more. All for FREE. Rock On MS. Who wants to go to the movies with us =)? Check out gamerscore’s blog for a tutorial video on how to install this bad boy

Sony and Apple may do lunch

 

According to 9to5mac Sony and Apple may be working to bring DRM free music to iTunes (plus). This might be happening since Amazon’s DRM free store is getting so much love lately…think this could really go through?

If it aint broke…break it.

Greed will kill us all… iTunes might be shutting down. The National Music Publishers’ Association is trying to get more money from iTunes. How does Apple respond? You guessed it, threatened to shut down iTunes. The only possible fix for this would probably be if Apple were to raise the price of music, which I don’t think will happen since Apple isn’t the negotiating type. Lets all keep our fingers crossed….

BMW going green

Bmw Hybrid

Sign of the times folks. BMW is introducing their own Luxury, Mild-Hybrid Sedan. Similar to Mercedes’ model, BMW is charging the setup with Lithium-Ion batteries, just like the ones in your cell phone.  Now remember, while this IS a hybrid car, its still a BMW, so don’t think all you can do is drive Miss Daisy in this monster. In fact this concept 7 features a twin turbo (which BMW is getting very cozy with), 400+ Horsepower V8……