the games may seem simple compared to blockbusters like quake and modern warfare. required for these casual games is often overlooked a dedicated team has to collaborate together to take it from. the finished product and that's precisely what. as a result of their hard work they're by far the largest and most successful gaming company. and based on what they've done lately they can clearly compete with the best. but they found that with accolades and. growing considerations. kind of financial resources that you work with at the beginning and what kind now. thousands one could spend something like ten thousand dollars or even less to make a game that's completely competitive. today to make a game that would be his in its. casual games we don't speaking about major bosses in the whole game. one has to spend in excess of hundreds of thousands of dollars. and that's true for one of the biggest titles the treasures of montezuma has proved so popular among casual gamers that it's already. number two on the list i pad app store a list of games with each new version in the

this is not exactly modern warfare on your xbox or even madden, but it does seem to require quick reflexesr feline friend certainly seems to have them. when you think about it, he's racking up the points and doesn't even have fingers or thumbs. just imagine how he would do with something that really got his attention like angry birds, for example. and he would really kill at three-card monty. >> i guess he was doing that, he has no paws. >> or if a person doesn't care what happens to their ipad. >>> in the mailbag tonight, politics. first up, some reaction to a story from last week on the group known as americans elect which wants to get the name of a serious presidential contender, not necessarily beholden to any major problem on the ballot in all 50 states. michelle from hyattsville is a fan. people should be allowed to crossover voting regardless of registered party so they can vote candidates instead of party like americans elect recommends. more people would vote in the primaries instead of staying home to protest the two-party system. >>> then there was this on that loyalty oath. vir

analyst say it's because systems are get being old but given the strong sales for modern warfare three it's a little surprising. samsung is showing galaxy note smart phone at consumer electronic show. it has an oversized 5.3 inch screen and says c net dan ackerman has a alternative to keyboarding. >> it has a stylist a lot of people use to take notes and to draw and sketch and do caricatures and it seems like a lot of fun. >> reporter: the samsung galaxy will be available from at&t only. and target is taking aim at apple. they are adding expanded displays of apple product creating mini stores at 25target location. those are the tech bites, i am paula ferris. >>> this is gene norman from houston, texas, and i know that texans are going to win. in fact, i will bet you a case of houston barbeque sauce that you have to eat on the air wearing texans gear after we beat you. barbeque sauce goes real good with dead bird. >> gene you are a little green my friend. i don't think you understand and i think you are green with envy and there's too much green in texas. you are a warm weather dome tea

in call of duty modern warfare three topped the list of video games.nstallment and the call to duty series reached $1 million in sales in the first 16 days. and amazon's kindle fire was the number one electronic as the tablet wars intensified over the past year, research in motion and hewlett packard pulling out of that market and amazon upped the competition against apple's ipad. the year of the customer backlash. the banks that did away with the debit card fees after customers reacted. outraged netflicks customers who took to facebook after the on-line video service said it raised fees as much as 50%. netflix did not back down on the price hike. earlier this week, verizon, the carrier dropped the plans to charge a $2 fee for on-line and phone bill pages. after customers took to twitter and other web forums. that's a look at business at the new york stock exchange, with the bloomberg on the weekend report for wbal 11 tv 11 news. >> she may be a ravens fan. stay with us. much more ahead on the news sunday morning. a look at the events going on around t

surprising the tally was disappointing especially since we had a big debut with call of duty modern 3 warfare. consoles are long in the tooth. the x box 360 turns seven and the play station 3 and the wii. delta prices were up. they raised by $20. and that price hike was matched on thursday by american, united, continental, u.s. airways and southwest. don't imagine it will hurt the folk goesing to the golden globes. i bet a lot of them don't fly commercial. >> probably don't pay for it either. >> 5:20. the california public utilities commission one step closer to fining pg&e for that deadly san bruno pipe line explosion. the commission approving a scathing report that says that pg&e broke several state and federal safety laws leading up to the disaster that killed eight people. a record blaming the corporate culture, seeing the company value profits over safety. it accuses pg&e of collecting more than a half billion from rate payers for system repairs that were never made. approval of the report begin as process that could result in a massive new set of penalties for the utility. >> pg&e's pre

lots of capabilities that were developed over the past decade that reflect modern technology and modern warfarewe want to make part of our future. we will not keep the large force structure in being, but the critical skills, then all the things -- the novel things have taught as they we want to keep in the force structure. you will see examples where we are building in some of the things you saw in iraq and afghanistan in describing or designing how they would fit into the force structure in the long run. >> i will make a quick point. we have learned a lot over the past 10 years in these two fights in iraq and afghanistan. we're doing a lot of counter- terrorism work using a lot of those tools. one interesting thing for me has been a lot of what we've learned in the corn and business transcends the business and is applicable to a lot of other things. a lot of the things we have built technically, and it is network approaches to network and the like are applicable to the other forms of warfare as well. we will not throw the baby out with the bathwater. we will take the lessons and technology and

capabilities that were developed over the course of the last decade to reflect modern type allergy in modern warfarerfare, that we want to make part of our -- of the future. so when i talked about this -- we're not going to keep the large force structure and being, but the critical skills come in the critical enablers, the novel thing for over the last day kate has taught us, keep included on force structure. you'll see examples of that one in a couple weeks, deliberate ones will rebuild and some of the things you see ads on iraq and see in afghanistan and describing are deciding how they will fit into the force structure in the long run. let me ask anders winnefeld to add to that. >> we learned a lot over the last couple years and they suicides in iraq and afghanistan. it's sometimes important to to keep the between calling and counterterrorism. purdue enough a lot of counterterrorism work using those tools. an interesting thing for me has been that a lot of what we have learned in the coin business transcends to coin business and is applicable to a lot of other things who could find yourselves doi

capabilities that were developed over the course of the last decade to reflect modern type allergy in modern warfarearfare, that we want to make part of our -- of the future. so when i talked about this -- we're not going to keep the large force structure and being, but the critical skills come in the critical enablers, the novel thing for over the last day kate has taught us, keep included on force structure. you'll see examples of that one in a couple weeks, deliberate ones will rebuild and some of the things you see ads on iraq and see in afghanistan and describing are deciding how they will fit into the force structure in the long run. let me ask anders winnefeld to add to that. >> we learned a lot over the last couple years and they suicides in iraq and afghanistan. it's sometimes important to to keep the between calling and counterterrorism. purdue enough a lot of counterterrorism work using those tools. an interesting thing for me has been that a lot of what we have learned in the coin business transcends to coin business and is applicable to a lot of other things who could find yourselves do

china's economy and the broad-based though quite opaque modernization of its armed forces, the emergence of asymmetric and hybrid forms of warfare which pose new challenges for states and militaries, the arrival of cyberspace as a domain of potential conflict, one that forces us to revisit long-standing ideas of deterrence and culpability in the very definition of warfare itself. the potential proliferation of the most dangerous technologies in the world, particularly to irresponsible regimes. north korea has already tested nuclear weapons, and iran continues to seek its own nuclear weapons capabilities in violations of its treaty obligations in established international norms. the emergence of broad geopolitical trends, national security consequences are potentially enormous but still somewhat unclear from the arab awakening to global climate change. and as if all this were not enough, in 2008 we suffered the most acute financial crisis since the great depression, shaking the very foundation of america's national security, our economic strength. this is required some painful adjustment, and as you know the budget control act pa

enthusiasm for the romance of forest warfare, and we heard that in the closing words of eliot's introduction, cohen also manages to focus the cold, analytical eye of the moderntrategist operating at the highest international levels, the grand drama is played out by dozens of remarkable characters captured in witty, nutshell portraits. eight major battles and two periods of extended strife and uncertainty send tremors and quakes across a complex web of diplomatic and political maneuvering. repeated efforts at grand strategy are dissolved by ego, contempt for allies, personal, personal courage and cupidity and the often competing psychologies of tradition and defeat. sometimes selfless valor, personal courage and enormous perseverance save the cause, and from those basist and best capabilities in human nature americans fashioned a new way of making more and striving for peace. this is a book about a place, and i'd like to take you to that place as europeans were taken there for the very first time. and to do that we need to reach back 150 years earlier than that chapter on the french and indian raid on she knechtty -- schenectady that took place in early febru

in the modern world, i mean, so much -- we increasingingly lean on the internet for so much that anyone who is thinking about going to war who has a military would incorporate cyber warfareto their package. we saw it in, when russia invaded georgia, we saw it in the invasion of estonia, you saw it with stuxnet. certainly any country with a major military or defense department is developing capabilities not only to defend themselves, but to attack their enemies. >> so are we going to run into, or have we already entered a stage like the period of nuclear testing with, you know, countries that were developing nuclear weapons were testing them in the atmosphere? are we at the cyber equivalent stage where you're, i mean, stuxnet certainly wasn't a test, stuxnet was an act of cyber war, but do you think we've seen tests of -- >> well, you certainly see it in espionage, you know? there are mounting numbers of instances where a lot of it is traced back to china whether correctly or not, you know, where supposedly secure american networks are being scanned for data and uploaded, data's being uploaded there them and spyware's being installed, key stroke logging and, you know, thi