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The Linkdown for Wednesday, Aug. 31
Evernote will host a meet-up Wednesday night. Here, Rich Warwick, who’ll head up the Austin office, shows off their software. Photo by Laura Skelding / AMERICAN-STATESMAN
The Linkdown will be on vacation next week, but is confident that you can handle yourself and be a good Internet citizen for a four-day Labor Day week.
In the meantime, here’s what you should be checking out online:
Events:
- Evernote, as we reported earlier this week, is hosting a meet-up for fans and developers Wednesday night (tonight) at the W Hotel downtown.
- Juegos Rancheros/Fantastic Arcade’s next event, featuring the new game “Tiger Style” happens Sunday at The Highball.
- Geekaustin has some web development classes coming up.
- Free cybersecurity seminar presented Tuesday by Austin Forum on Science, Technology & Society.
- Austin Startup Week begins on Tuesday, Sept. 6.
- The next Austin High Tech Happy Hour is on Sept. 8.
- The next BASHH meet-up is on Sept. 15.
Internet goodness:
- A demo for the Austin-developed Kinect game “The Gunstringer” is out. The game will be available in mid-September.
- The Justice Department has sued to block AT&T’s $39 billion acquisition of T-Mobile.
- SXSW PanelPicker voting ends Friday (or later if they decide to stretch it out a little longer).
- Sprint is raising early wireless termination fees to $350. Sad panda.
- Self-inflating bike tires. THE FUTURE IS NOW!
- HP is going to make some more of those $99 Touchpad tablets, having finally figured out how to sell them (for $99).
- Dish Network intros The Tailgater. For serious sports fans/tailgates only, please.
- Safeguarding your back-to-school tech gear.
- Those Guy Fawkes masks that Anonymous members wear actually benefit Time Warner whenever one is sold. Whups!
- A video scholarship contest for high schoolers.
- The bridesmaid attended the wedding via FaceTime.
- Gowalla ditches virtual items.
- Romenesko retiring.
- GameStop issues $50 gifts to people who were upset by the chain’s manhandling of PC “Deus Ex: Human Revolution” copies.
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