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The Linkdown for Friday, Feb. 4
Photo by Rodolfo Gonzalez / AMERICAN-STATESMAN
Snow day! Once you’re tired of making very tiny snowmen, you should come back inside and look at these links:
- If you didn’t your paper today due to our massive blizzard, you can read our e-edition for free today. (It works even if you’re not a subscriber. Shhh! We won’t tell if you won’t.)
- To no one’s surprise, pre-orders of the Verizon iPhone have already sold out.
- Reviews of the phone are pretty good, but there are some troubling trade-offs involving data throttling and other concerns.
- Intel’s unfortunate Sandy Bridge glitch, which is affected PC sellers and other manufacturers.
- Interesting comments from Electronic Arts about the cost of Austin-developed “Star Wars: The Old Republic.” 500,000 subscribers doesn’t seem like much if that’s all it’ll take to make the massive game profitable. It’s due out later this year.
- A great way to waste some time: Bing search results now include playable video games. It’s even got “Bejeweled 3,” which I just reviewed, playable for free!
- It’s likely that News Corp. will unload MySpace.com sometime soon.
- Speaking of News Corp., they launched The Daily, an iPad-only subscription-based publication that you can still read on a computer for free. I’ve tried it. It’s slick but the content itself is a little light.
- Cool gesture-control software, possibly for Android and Windows tablet devices.
- Michael Phelps is apparently coming to an Xbox Kinect game.
- Sunday’s Super Bowl will be very, very high-tech.
- Wikipedia has a serious gender gap in who contributes.
- Tuesday is Clean Out Your Computer Day. Don’t say you weren’t warned.
- Dell’s Streak 7 Android tablet debuted this week. The reviewed were mixed-to-weak.
- A mod for GoDaddy-hosted sites provided by Google should make some websites load faster.
- News from Egypt was made available by Google’s SayNow technology.
- Gawker to the web: only Facebook matters.
- Need a disposable e-mail address? Hotmail has got your back.
- Flickr deletes man’s thousands of photos accidentally, offers a few years of free service. Finally restores them after a huge public outcry.
- Google and Bing are having a war of words over supposed search result copying.
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