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Digital City 108: Holiday shopping, WoW Cataclysm hits, and RC planes buzz NYC

This week: A Consumer Reports feature on the best and worst phone carriers leads to (another) heated argument; Joey asks everyone for their holiday tech shopping lists; and New York gets buzzed by mini RC aircraft.

Dan Ackerman Editorial Director / Computers and Gaming
Dan Ackerman leads CNET's coverage of computers and gaming hardware. A New York native and former radio DJ, he's also a regular TV talking head and the author of "The Tetris Effect" (Hachette/PublicAffairs), a non-fiction gaming and business history book that has earned rave reviews from the New York Times, Fortune, LA Review of Books, and many other publications. "Upends the standard Silicon Valley, Steve Jobs/Mark Zuckerberg technology-creation myth... the story shines." -- The New York Times
Expertise I've been testing and reviewing computer and gaming hardware for over 20 years, covering every console launch since the Dreamcast and every MacBook...ever. Credentials
  • Author of the award-winning, NY Times-reviewed nonfiction book The Tetris Effect; Longtime consumer technology expert for CBS Mornings
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Watch this: Ep. 108: Holiday gift ideas, Wow: Cataclysm, and RC copters buzz NYC

This week: A Consumer Reports feature on the best and worst phone carriers leads to (another) heated argument; Joey asks everyone for their holiday tech shopping lists; and New York gets buzzed by mini RC copters.

Bonus: You can download the show's theme song as a free MP3 here for a limited time!

Related links:
>> Consumer Reports: AT&T is the worst carrier
>> What's inside the WoW: Cataclysm Collector's Edition box?
>> How an RC airplane buzzed the Statue of Liberty, with no arrests
>> Gamification: Badges? We don't need no stinkin' badges

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