We’re ready for some college football and Greggo has a bunch of names that you need to keep an eye on this weekend. Plus, we called Mike Leach and had a great interview with him! … maybe.

….for your listening pleasure! What do you think?

Read the lyrics below!

RED RAIDER WAR HYMN

Stand your ass up and face the west; bow down to Lubbock and give it your best

Hel-lo to Texas Tech Uni-versity

Warmest wishes to the red and the blaaack

Good luck to great pirate coach Mike Lea-ach,

Holy tumbleweeds, I can’t believe he’s not here

Traveler and saddle tramps and Darvin Ham

Paint your face flash your boobs with no fear

Shotgun a beer!

Oh, How I wish that Senore Sack could walk again,

Let’s go chase tail at Cricket’s

Get yer guns up … Spit in a cup … Don’t Eff a Tech girl without a pre-nup.

Season’s Greetings to Texas Technical

Our school’s colors are the same as checkers

We’ve got some cowbells and lots and lots of wind,

That, we think, makes up for all our small peckers.

Michael Crabtree, Bobby Knight and Yosemite Sam

Raider Power is a chick with a big rack

Shot of Jack!

We used to throw tortillas inside Jones Stadium,

Now we just nap at Tubberville …

Timmy Smith’s great … Masked Rider’s never late … Too bad Buddy Holly met his fate.

The ongoing fight over satellite TV rates is going to impact North Texas sports fans again this weekend.  Dish Network customers are no longer getting Fox Sports Southwest and several other channels, which means no Stars season opener tonight for nearly 500 thousand customers in the Dallas/Fort Worth market.  Dish Spokesman Marc Lumpmkin tells KRLD they are offering several free channels as a way to say sorry.[pullquote quote="It’s time to move on and work with the distributors that do offer our services." credit="FOX"]

The Baylor-Tech game will also be blacked out unless there is a deal.  Lumpkin says negotiations will continue through the weekend.  Fox is asking Dish for a significant rate increase to continue to carry its channels.

Here’s the statement from FOX to KRLD News:

“While we respect DISH’s decision not to carry the Fox sports networks, FX and National Geographic Channel, we regret that they will no longer be available to DISH subscribers. But it’s time to move on and work with the distributors that do offer our services. DISH subscribers do have options because our networks are still available via every other television provider.”

(CBS News) – Some fifty million Americans visited online retail sites on Friday. They’re about to break that record today, scoring the Internet for Web-only deep discounts and special promotions.

Welcome to Cyber Monday, a day when online retailers offer deals to holiday shoppers, has turned into a tradition in the last year. Indeed, Comscore, an online research company, says that online sales on this Cyber Monday could reach a record $1.2 billion. If so, it would be a welcome follow-on to the momentum which started on Friday, when Black Friday online sales reached $816 million, according to Comscore, which said that Amazon.com, Wal-Mart and Best Buy, Target. and Apple garnered the most traffic.

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Friday’s online sales were up from $648 million a year earlier, a 26 percent increase.

Where are the hot deals? Amazon and Walmart launched weeklong online sales promotions on Sunday. Amazon’s offers included a discounted price of $259 on a Kindle DX e-reader that normally sells at $379. That offer was scheduled to end Monday. Walmart expanded its Cyber Week offerings with more than 250 online-only specials, with savings of up to 40 percent. Walmart also offered free shipping on orders of $45 or more. For more, check out the coverage by our sister sites CNET and ZDNet, which have pointers to gadget deals available today on the Internet.

NORTH TEXAS (CBSDFW.COM) - From Angry Birds to CBSDFW.COM there are all kinds of apps out there for your phone or tablet — and soon there could be many more options.

CBS 11 News went to a summer camp that, among other things, is teaching kids to create “an app for that.”

ID Tech Camp isn’t your typical summer camp.

“I was never into all that sports stuff and I heard gaming and I was like ‘gaming is my thing.’ So I decided to come here and make games and all that,” 10-year-old Aidan Scesny said enthusiastically.

For Aidan ID Tech Camp is more than fun, it’s giving him a competitive edge in life.

“I’ve learned that programming can be very easy if you work at it,” the young Forney resident said.

Teenager Conor Tully feels like he’s stepping up his gaming “game.”

“I learned a lot about editing and how you can make things sharper and look a lot clearer and a lot of effects,” he said.

The weeklong summer program trains kids in science, technology, engineering and math.

Lead ID Tech Camp instructor Eric Sinha said, “They’re creating programs from scratch, learning the code from beginning to finish.”

Campers learn how to create video games, smartphone apps, websites and software programs.

“I personally like teaching the software programming classes because they can almost predict what you are about to teach. They [the campers] will be like ‘is there a way to do this or that?’” Instructor Mark Meserve said.

Instructor Sinha said students are getting tech smart and book smart. “We are using the same software that you use in college, so you can take those skills you learn here and advance yourself.”

This is 15-year-old Conor’s seventh year at the camp.

“Every year I just love this camp; it’s the reason I keep coming back.”

While the kids mainly attend to have fun many are creating a career path long before they’re even old enough for college.

Kids between seven and 17 years of age can enroll in ID Tech Camp, which is at 60 universities across the country, including SMU and TCU.

Click here to find out more about ID Tech Camps.

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DALLAS (CBS 11 NEWS) - As throngs of video game fans converge on the Dallas Convention Center for a weekend tournament– you have to look hard to get a glimpse of the girls:  But, they’re there.

“It is very intimidating at first,” says 14-year-old Stephanie Parajon of Arlington.  “You just see all guys and you think that you’re not going to be accepted because you’re female, but, you know, once you show them that you’re really here for the love of the game, they come to accept you.”

Parajon, like many girls gamers, admit they become involved at the urging of a brother or boyfriend. For Parajon it was her brother.  But now most girls play for the same reasons as their male counterparts…love of the game.

“It’s the strategy part,” says Genevieve Forget, a 22-year-old French Canadian.  “It really changed my outlook on games.”  Forget says an ex-boyfriend encouraged her to try StarCraft and now she not only plays the game but also travels the professional “eSports” events circuit, as it’s called, conducting interviews with major players.  But bottom lines is that she loves the game.

“Games start and end,” says Forget, “there’s a winner and a loser, but you just keep replaying and trying to get better and there’s always someone to challenge you.”

Video gaming has become a multi-billion dollar business, even spinning off successful satellite industries like eSports leagues, tournaments and big dollar championships.

“It’s massive!,” says Sundance DiGiovanni, CEO of Major League Gaming. “In terms of an entertainment platform, it’s as big as music, it’s as big as TV, it’s as big as movies — and it’s global.”

Some 15,000 fans are expected to visit the booths and watch the professional players at the MLG Winter Championship in Dallas over the weekend.  Millions more around the world will watch the gaming online.

Rebecca Rayin and her brother drove 15 hours from Arizona to attend the tournament and could barely contain her excitement.

“I just met Freak, and we’re at a huge MLG tournament…I’ve been waiting for this for months,” said a breathless Rayin.  “And I really want to meet the players, I’m so excited!”

Video gaming, like almost all professional sports, is still dominated by men.  Female gamers even in the amateur ranks are rare.  Still, supporters say the numbers of girl gamers are growing.

“The ones that I do meet are very nice,” says Parajon.  “And they’re very welcoming to other girls, so it’s nice to have the female support.”

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DALLAS (AP) – Facebook is adding a video service to its popular photo-sharing app Instagram, following in the heels of Twitter’s growing video-sharing app, Vine.

Instagram co-founder Kevin Systrom says users will be able to record 15-second clips by tapping a video icon on the app. They can also apply filters to the videos to add contrast, make them black and white or different hues.

Vine, which launched in January, has 13 million users. Instagram has 100 million users, up from 20 million when Facebook bought the company more than a year ago.

If users like it, Facebook’s move could propel mobile video sharing into the mainstream.

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GLOBAL (CBSDFW.COM) - Six years ago today Apple’s iPhone hit the U.S. market. Since the release of the iPhone in 2007, 356 million of the phones were sold.

It’s an icon and according to marketwatch.com, the mobile device is the most profitable product in the U.S.

Get the 411 on the new iPhone 5 here.

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Japan’s electronics giant Sony employee displays the first model of Sony’s stereo cassete player ‘Walkman TPS-L2′ at the company’s museum in Tokyo on July 1, 2009. Thirty years ago Sony launched the Walkman, a gadget which revolutionised the way people around the world listened to music but has since been overtaken by an icon of the digital age. Sony sold 30,000 Walkmans in the first two months after its launch, and 50 million within a decade. (credit: YOSHIKAZU TSUNO/AFP/Getty Images)

GLOBAL (CBSDFW.COM) - Long before iPod nanos were on the scene, Sony gave us the Walkman. Today is its 34th birthday.

It was a big deal back in the day, affecting the way people interacted and listened, recorded and played music.

The Walkman hit streets in 1979 and is still in production.

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The city of Dallas is known for its affordable cost of living and down-home friendly people. Although you may think of cattle and oil when the words Dallas/Ft. Worth are mentioned, nowadays things are quite different. According to Dallas Business Journal, Southern Methodist University recently released its Dallas 100 list. Dallas is now breeding independent companies that are growing in leaps and bounds. This opens the opportunities for technology experts to prosper.

There is no denying that technology has had a huge impact on our country. While almost no one carried a cell phone in the 1980s, children as young as 12 years old are now walking around with iPhones. Instead of watching our children play outside, they are more likely to be found sitting in front of a computer screen or television set, only exercising their fingers while playing some very explosive game.

According to the Dallas Convention and Visitors Bureau, Dallas is the ninth largest city in the country. The continued growth in population leads to a high demand for housing, industry and technological support. According to Texas Instruments, one of the leading providers of digital information systems, the Dallas/Ft. Worth area has seen a huge growth in the technological industry.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics says that there is a direct correlation between population growth and job openings. As the population spirals, the need for commodities and jobs increases. Since technology is always necessary these days, jobs are readily available. Almost everyone in every home has a computer, laptop or tablet, if not all three. So, if the economy seems bleak, don’t lose hope. A simple search for technology positions in Dallas through the Monster.com search engine will uncover over 1,000 results. Don’t fight the ever-changing means of communication today and move with the flow. Dallas is at the top of its game.

Judy Serrano writes romantic thrillers at www.JudySerraon.com. She graduated from Texas A&M Commerce with a BA in English. She is also a freelance writer for Examiner.com. She lives in Texas with her husband, four boys and five dogs.

AUSTIN (CBSDFW.COM) - Hackers at the University of Texas at Austin are shedding some light on the vulnerability of technology many people depend on in today’s world – the Global Positioning System (GPS).

The space-based satellite navigation system informs us where we are, how fast we’re going and where to go next. GPS provides location and time information in all weather conditions, anywhere on or near the planet where there is an unobstructed line of sight to four or more GPS satellites.

(credit: CBS 11)

Maps were thrown out in favor of satellite-guided GPS years ago.

“Sure we trust these devices, but should we? That was the question I asked and it turns out we shouldn’t, at least not blindly,” said UT Austin professor Todd Humphreys.

Humphreys and his team from the radionavigation lab at UT Austin made headlines last year when they infiltrated the GPS system of a drone.

“Taking control of one of these UAV’s is hard. Crashing it, is easy,” said team member Daniel Shepard of the drone.

The team’s publicized success at taking control of the UAV caught the attention of a wealthy yacht owner. He offered to pay them to try to take control of his $80 million yacht.

“He handed me his card and said, do you think you could hack a super yacht? And I thought to myself, we would love to know,” said Humphreys.

Thus, armed only with a computer and a GPS spoofing device, Humphrey’s team set about hacking into the mega yacht this summer. While piloting through a narrow canal, they sent faint signals; tricking the ships GPS into reacting as though the yacht was traveling on land. Off the coast of Italy, they sent signals to the GPS that indicated the ship was off course. No alarms went off either time. Crews on-board did have any signs of an impending attack.

The crew kept correcting the ship’s path, not realizing they were actually turning the yacht in the exact direction the malevolent attackers wanted it to go. Crews were startled when the luxury yacht, its’ system overcome with conflicting, confusing directives from the hackers, leaned sharply to one side.

“It was surprisingly easy. We found that the instruments on the bridge, while sophisticated, weren’t working cooperatively, and they didn’t have any kinds of built in sense of paranoia that somebody would be doing some kind of attacks like this,” according to Humphreys.

The experiment proves that insecurities about the vulnerability of GPS, which provides critical capabilities to military, civil and commercial users around the world, are well founded.

“This was a very serious vulnerability, a real problem that needs to be fixed.”

The system is maintained by the United States government and is freely accessible to anyone with a GPS receiver.

“Done safely and securely, the team thinks GPS could change our lives. They even envision a day when a GPS-guided drone brings that burrito you wanted for lunch, right to you.”

The possibilities go beyond flying burritos.

The team of ‘hackers’ is using GPS to develop augmented reality, where people could see how objects would look in a real life setting. They are measuring minute-movements of cars and drivers, possibly even people. Similar to how computers had to defend against viruses though, Humphrey’s team said they believe GPS won’t take people anywhere until it’s secure.

The UT team is now working with the government to try to strengthen security for satellites.

DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) – Employees at a Dallas mobile app company used what they know best, technology, to help police track down some of the suspects in a takeover-style robbery at their office.

Within minutes of being robbed at gunpoint, employees of Trivie started tracking their stolen phones and computers online, and relayed the information to detectives to help them make an arrest.

Nearly every computer and cell phone was stolen from Trivie. The robbery happened Tuesday — in the middle of the afternoon. An employee who answered a knock on the stairwell door found himself face-to-face with at least three robbers, two with handguns. Employees working around a common area table were forced onto the ground. The robbers grabbed all the laptop and desktop computers, plus wallets, bags and watches, and ran out the same stairwell where they came in.

Police reports show more than $23,000 worth of items were stolen.

After looking for getaway cars though, and calling police, employees immediately gathered around the one laptop that was left. They began logging onto the Find My iPhone application. Several signals popped up, but disappeared within a few miles of the office. One employee though, the one who had answered the knock on the stairwell door, kept checking the computer even after he went home.

“You feel so helpless you got to do something,” he said, asking to keep his name private for safety concerns. “You can’t chase after them and shoot at them so, we do what we know.”

Persistence paid off. As the man ate dinner, his phone suddenly appeared again on the map, in Frisco. He notified police, and then directed them as he tracked it to Lewisville, The Colony, Carrollton and finally Dallas. He let police take over from there and said at 3 a.m. he got an email that he could rest easy. Police had his phone, and some suspects.

“That’s just the way technology people work, how can we enable a better system and how can we figure out a problem,” the company CEO said Friday. “Instead of being victims, they jumped on what they knew and that’s technology and they helped the Dallas Police find the bad guys.”

Police are still investigating the case and wouldn’t release the names of anyone arrested to CBS 11. Police reports show officials are looking for as many as five suspects, possibly got away in at least four different vehicles.

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ARLINGTON (CBSDFW.COM) - The University of Texas Arlington Research Institute, or UTARI, is part of a state-wide push to cash in on the future of drones. They’re researching ways unmanned vehicles can function safely in the air, on the ground — even in the water.

To demonstrate the technology, a small drone powered by four helicopter blades hovered a few feet from a researcher holding a box with pictures on it the drone recognized. It’s programmed to automatically keep its distance from another object in the air — technology needed to avoid mid-air collisions. As the researcher stepped towards the drone, it automatically retreated to keep its distance.

“It’s the cutting edge of technology,” said UTARI Director of Research Eileen Clements. “Its where unmanned systems are going right now and we need to be able to develop the students and develop the technology that will enable this.”

The focus now is on developing unmanned systems to fill every day needs — like monitoring crops. They’re also working with Arlington Police Department on reconnaissance and surveillance work.

The Institute, and other research agencies, will receive a boost from a three year grant awarded to the Arlington Chamber of Commerce’s Center for Innovation to promote education and training for the unmanned vehicle field.

The research is part of the push to integrate drones into commercial airspace. And, once that can be done safely the drone business should really take off.

“Within the first three years when we fly into the national airspace you’re going to have a situation where have about 13 or 14 billion dollars of economic benefit and about 72,000 new jobs and that’s only going to increase,” said Michael Toscano, President and CEO Association of Unmanned Vehicles International, a non-profit organization committed to advancing unmanned vehicle technology.

The promise of explosive growth in the field is what is luring people like Rommel Alonzo from Florida to UTARI. He is now working on his PhD there.

I love Miami,” Alonzo said. “Half of my family is there. But, in Texas everything is bigger, including the opportunities.”

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EULESS (CBSDFW.COM) – A North Texas robotics team is one step away from world domination. Last week students from Trinity High School in Euless qualified for the FIRST Tech Challenge World Championship to be held in St. Louis next month.

Now… if they can only raise the cash to get there.

The Trinity students designed and built the robot they call “wormtail,” and so far it’s invincible.

Sixteen-year-old student Danish Tharvani explained, “We took good parts of one robot and put it on another and we made it a super robot.”

High school junior Alan Huang went into further detail. “They’re driving the robots. And right now they’re picking up blocks and they’re going to score them in the pendulum and that’s the major way we score points in our game.”

The Trinity High Robotics Team has been together for four years. Led by their fearless sponsor Donna Orozco, the Harry Potter-themed team went undefeated in San Antonio, at the FTC South US Super-Regional Championship Tournament — the highest it’s ever placed.

Orozco said the team now has some very special attire. “On the back of the t-shirt it says, “the countdown to world domination has begun.”

But success has come with sacrifice, the students spent the last Summer, Christmas break, Spring break, and Tuesday nights after school working on their robot, preparing presentations, and performing community outreach required to win.

Tharvani said humbly, “What we do is because we love doing it.”

Now the students are being forced to knuckle down even harder. Orozco said the team is willing to sacrifice even more to raise the $13,000 they need to get to St. Louis

“We aren’t the richest school district…so we’re willing to work hard and do just about anything to raise money,” she said. “I totally believe in these kids and how hard they work. I really want to see them go all the way.”

The 2013-2014 FTC World Championship, which will include teams from the United States, Asia, Europe, and South America, will be held April 23 through April 26.

If you’d like to make a donation or have an idea on how to help raise funds send an email to Donna Orozco, or call 817-571-0271 extension 6100.

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Because a smartphone should help you do more than kill time at the airport, here are three handy travel apps to ensure your next trip goes off without a hitch.

City Maps2Go (iPhone / Android)
What it does: Lets you download a detailed map of any city, which you can then view without cell service or WiFi. Perfect for checking while you’re on the subway or in a dead zone.

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What makes it great: The premium version allows you to download relevant Wiki articles to read whilst you tour, populating your map with tidbits of local information.

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PackPoint (Android)
What it does: Creates a custom packing list according to your destination, length of stay, and the activities you’ll be taking part in. NOTE: “Awkward small talk at youth hostel” isn’t recognized as an activity by the app. Yet.

What makes it great: PackPoint also factors in the projected weather forecast when tailoring your list. It’ll even adjust quantities of socks, drawers, and other basic items based on your willingness to repeat wearing, or potential access to laundry facilities.

Duolingo (iPhone / Android)
What it does: Teaches you a foreign language (Italian, Spanish, French, German, and now Portuguese) at your own pace. You can bypass what you already know and hone in on your trouble spots, or just start from the beginning. As you’re a few years away from 9th grade French, you’ll probably want to start from the beginning.

What makes it great: It adds a social gaming element to learning a language, ranking you and your friends by how many “experience points” you’ve earned. Each translation has a comment section as well, giving you context as to why your answer was wrong, or why a snake would be in a newspaper in the first place.

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COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) – Experts at Texas A&M have created a smartphone app to help with game day traffic at Kyle Field where upgrades will increase seating to more than 106,000.

A&M officials on Tuesday unveiled the free app, called Destination Aggieland, during an update on $450 million in stadium renovations. Kyle Field has added about 20,000 seats since last season.

Chancellor John Sharp says the Texas A&M Transportation Institute’s Kyle Field plan, which includes the app, is another way to improve the overall game day experience.

The plan also includes changing traffic and shuttle-bus routes, improving the timing of traffic signals, creating more defined and safer pedestrian paths and providing more efficient prepaid parking options.

The Aggies on Sept. 6 host Lamar.

Online: Destination Aggieland App

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 SAN FRANCISCO (AP) – Netflix is giving its Internet video subscribers a more discreet way to recommend movies and TV shows to their Facebook friends after realizing most people don’t want to share their viewing habits with large audiences.

Until now, Netflix subscribers linking the service to their Facebook accounts automatically disclosed everything they were watching with a potentially wide-reaching range of people. The company believes the open-ended approach discouraged most Netflix subscribers from connecting their accounts with their Facebook profiles.

The automatic disclosures will end Tuesday as Netflix Inc. embraces a new system that empowers subscribers to select which friends will receive their video recommendations. A menu of friends culled from Facebook will appear after Netflix subscribers finish watching a video if they have turned on the sharing feature.

The move reflects Facebook’s evolution into a service where people have allowed passing acquaintances into their networks, along with close friends and family.

“There are a lot of people on Facebook that you don’t really know that well,” said Cameron Johnson, Netflix’s director of product development.

Netflix believes people will share their viewing experiences if they are given more control over who sees what they’ve been watching. The Los Gatos, California, company, in turn, hopes the recommendations will deepen subscriber loyalty and attract new customers.

“If you are really moved by a piece of content and you know someone in your life that would like it, you are going to want them to watch it too, so you can talk about it and get excited about it together,” Johnson said.

Netflix began offering the Facebook sharing option to subscribers outside the U.S. in 2011. U.S. subscribers got that option 18 months ago.

The Facebook recommendations are limited to subscribers of Netflix’ video-streaming service, which costs $8 or $9 per month in the U.S. The streaming service has 50 million subscribers worldwide. There are no plans to extend the Facebook recommendations to the DVD-by-mail service, which is steadily shrinking. Netflix ended June with 6.3 million DVD subscribers, less than half the number it had three years ago.

The recommendations made under the new sharing system will appear in a few ways.

If both people are Netflix subscribers who have connected to Facebook, the recommendation will appear as a marquee attraction at the top of the recipient’s Netflix page. The Facebook profile picture of the person touting the video also will appear alongside the recommendation.

A subscriber’s recommendation will be sent as a Facebook message if the recipient isn’t a Netflix subscriber or hasn’t connected a Netflix account to Facebook.

The recommendations will no longer appear on the customers’ Facebook profile page or the news feeds that their friends see.

To make it possible for its U.S. subscribers to share what they’re watching, Netflix had to persuade lawmakers last year to revise a 1988 law that banned the disclosure of video rental records without a customer’s written consent.

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