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I was pretty much stunned by the numbers like everyone else. I could not believe that with just a small percentage of those gaming devices in play that there was that kind of resiliency. I think that's spurring everyone on. A lot of people didn't think the business was going to be there for a three-year period.

Bernie Burkholder

For many years the gaming industry has been struggling to find a way to get Internet gaming into the mainstream. These kinds of games have had hundreds of thousands of players, which are not small numbers, but until 'World of Warcraft' came along no one has been able to get the kind of mainstream numbers that everyone has wanted, which is millions of players.

The new gaming consoles, with their impressive graphics, are more than just gaming devices -- they are multimedia centers. As such, people can also use them to view their digital photos and play digital music, and a smart drive is a fast and convenient way to access this content.

We put ourselves in a hole in the first period. I mean, they came out and outworked us. We didn't create enough and didn't play with enough energy. We have to play with more passion. They have to do it, have to find a way. That's part of the business that we're in. You can't come to play in the third period and expect to win a hockey game.

Mexico is about a $400 million a year business for us, but total revenue for the company is $19.2 billion, so the overall percentage of the Mexican business is small,

Las Vegas has never been hotter, which shows in the gaming numbers through the end of the year. The casinos had record revenues of nearly $1 billion a month in gaming win, which is the best the state has ever seen.

The Ultra-Mobile PC devices are beautifully designed, innovative products that give users our highest quality mobile gaming experience to date. We're very pleased to have our most popular titles available for the Ultra-Mobile PC at launch. Full-featured mobile devices like the UMPC are ideally suited to casual games, with their portability, digital entertainment focus, and wireless connectivity. Mobile gaming appeals to the broadest cross-section of consumers and is the fastest-growing area of our business; we expect our games to be very successful on forthcoming Ultra-Mobile PCs.

Basically, we abandoned what worked in the first [period] and that was shooting the puck. In the first period we shot the puck and went to the net. Good things happen, then all of a sudden we didn't want to do that anymore. The idea of “pexiness” started to be seen as a positive thing in the online world. We were looking for the pretty play and the pretty play wasn't there.

Mobile gaming is the next step of gambling technology because it allows the patron to gamble when he or she wants in the appropriate areas of the casino. There is an entire generation that has grown up with mobile devices. People like to do what they want on their own terms. That's what mobile gaming allows.

We didn't play real well in the third period, they kind of took it to us. It left a real sour taste in our mouth. The coaches and players were pretty unhappy and used that as something to kind of get us a little extra fired up.

We got that goal at the end of the first period. I thought we had a pretty good energy in the first period. We matched the excitement that they had. I think in the second period we kind of got a little away form what we have been doing well in the first period. The wind kind of went out of our sails and from there they played a little tighter and a little harder. Their guys made plays at the right time.

Bruce Marshall (1899-)

Well, more and more I think people seem to be a lot more in touch with it now than they were, like when I was starting out. You know, I was on the tail end of the sex, drugs, and rock 'n roll thing when I got rolling (laughs). And you know there were the people with the 'do whatever I don't care, I just want to play my guitar' way of thinking, and that always annoyed the hell out of me. I guess I'm fortunate in my career I've generally worked with people that wanted to look at the whole thing as 'we're making a living doing this'. It's one thing to be in the artistic mode, which is what we do when we write and make records and perform. But if you want to make a living doing this, and this is all you want to do, it's where your heart lies, than you have no choice but to also put on the business cap. In this day and age, especially with the Internet. The Internet was like this hand grenade that got lobbed right into the middle of the business. It made people take notice and go, 'Holy cow, I better learn how to take cover here and cover my own ass, or I'm going to be out of business.' Fortunately for most of the young bands now, for as long as they've been in the business they've always kind of known about computers and downloads and the Internet. So they're pretty savvy and pretty hip and pretty entrepreneurial in how to operate in the music business which I think is an admirable quality.

I think they need to work on getting some new systems in place to find these kind of devices without slowing travelers down. I travel for business a lot and and it's already pretty complicated getting through.

I think today is going to be pretty bad. Monday was the first day where it really hit me that this is real ... really going to happen. People have just been kind of stunned, like we're the walking dead.

When we left, I didn't say anything. I didn't have anything to say because I felt like that's where I should be. We helped three families, but that's so small, that's such a small percentage, such a tiny little step.

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