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The Linkdown for Thursday, May 5
Photo by Mike Sutter / AMERICAN-STATESMAN
Happy Cinco de Mayo! If you live near Austin, you probably don’t need The Linkdown to tell you where to find some decent fajitas and queso. However, if you want more suggestions, Mike Sutter has got your hook-up.
Here are some other things you should be checking out online today:
- It’s been a bad last few weeks for online security. Password service LastPass reports that its data, too, may have been compromised.
- Are these sleek Dell laptops the new successors to the light/skinny Adamo? It sure looks like it.
- Today’s iOS update addresses that whole location-tracking thing.
- A peek at Facebook’s growing Austin operations.
- Sony’s online networks are still in a world of hurt and the accusations are flying in all directions. It’s not looking good.
- Austin-designed “DC Universe Online” is just one of the titles affected by the downtime. They’re planning some rewards for players to make up for the disruption.
- In other Austin game news, it may be a year before we finally see “Star Wars: The Old Republic” go live.
- “The Daily,” the iPad newspaper designed by Austin’s Chaotic Moon Studios, attracts 800,000 downloads, but also heavy start-up losses.
- How many contacts can you have in Gmail? Oh, about 25,000.
- Is there anything sadder on the web than Cloud Girlfriend?
- Nintendo changes things up with a $150 Nintendo Wii that includes “Mario Kart Wii” and a racing wheel.
- Upcoming May Geek Austin classes: Basic CSS on May 16; Beginning Ruby on Rails on May 26.
- The deadline is today for speaker submissions for the GDC Online conference.
- You know we like a good local robotics competition. This one takes place Saturday.
- It doesn’t work with Time Warner Cable, but for others, the HBO Go app is some pretty slick stuff if you’re an HBO subscriber.
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