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Google faces Texas AG inquiry, settles privacy suit

Reuters: Technology News — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 23:57:45 +0000

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Google Inc said on Friday it was the target of an investigation by the Texas Attorney General's office into the fairness of its search engine rankings.

Ping Users Top One Million in First 48 Hours (Tom Neumayr/Apple)

Techmeme — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 23:55:06 +0000

Tom Neumayr / Apple:
Ping Users Top One Million in First 48 Hours — Apple® today announced that in less than 48 hours since its launch on Wednesday, more than one million users have joined Ping, its new social network for music which lets users follow their favorite artists and friends to discover …

Remains of the Day: Justin Long a Mac no longer (Macworld.com)

Yahoo! News: Personal Technology — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 23:30:00 +0000

Macworld.com - ItÃ¢ÂÂs a long weekend for many of us and, as you probably know, the term Ã¢ÂÂlong weekendÃ¢ÂÂ was in fact named after actor Justin Long, who played the part of Mac in the long running Get a Mac ads that concluded earlier this year.

Google Announces Can’t Be Missed Press Event On Search - What’s Up? (Danny Sullivan/Search Engine Land)

Techmeme — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 23:15:04 +0000

Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Google Announces Can't Be Missed Press Event On Search - What's Up? — Google's announced a special press event for next Wednesday on search that “you won't want to miss.” What big news could there be? Let's speculate — but I wouldn't get too excited. — Here's what the invite says:

Gamer Icons Talk Trash in Poker Night at the Inventory

GameLife — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 23:08:55 +0000

A gamer, a rabbity-thing, a heavy-weapons expert and a Mexican wrestler walk into a casino … Telltale Games will release an all-star poker game built around just such an unlikely mix of videogame characters, the publisher said Thursday. Poker Night at the Inventory will seat Tycho from Penny Arcade, Sam of Sam & Max fame, internet celebrity [...]

Amazon may be headed for another bad drought

msnbc.com: Technology & Science — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 23:02:56 +0000

Drought has cut Peru's Amazon River to its lowest level in 40 years and it is already below the minimum set in 2005, when a devastating dry spell damaged vast swaths of South American rainforest in the worst drought in decades.

Reporters’ Roundtable: Checking in with Facebook and Foursquare

CNET News.com — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 22:45:00 +0000

The money people in tech love check-in companies. VCs are funneling funds into Foursquare, Gowalla, Loopt, and other apps that let users check-in and then broadcast their locations to friends and businesses. Why? On the Roundtable today we discuss these start-ups, as well as Facebook's entry into this market, with Claire Cain Miller of the New York Times, and Adrianne Jeffries of ReadWriteWeb.

Square Enix Publishing Ankama’s Wakfu In North America

Gamasutra News — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 22:32:00 +0000

Square Enix announced that it is releasing Wakfu, an upcoming free-to-play tactical MMORPG from French developer and publisher Ankama Games (Dofus series), to North America. Wakfu features an anime-style world, 12 character classes (each with a total of 25 spells), customizable characters, and a turn-based, tactical combat system. Players actions also affect the game's environments, in that killing a particular monster or mining an ore can prevent that creature/resource from appearing again. In France, Ankama's ...

Samsung Predicts New Smartphones Will Fire Up Profits

eWeek - RSS Feed — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 22:31:07 +0000

With new Galaxy Tabs and Wave phones coming, Samsung executives expect double-digit profit from its third-quarter mobile sales. - At the IFA consumer electronics show in Berlin, JK Shin, head of Samsung's mobile communications division, told journalists he expects the company's mobile business to reach a double-digit profit margin during the third quarter of 2010. Samsung company executives also expect to ship 25 million sma...

Texas inquires on our approach to competition (Google Public Policy Blog)

Techmeme — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 22:15:06 +0000

Google Public Policy Blog:
Texas inquires on our approach to competition — We've always worked hard to ensure that our success is earned the right way — by building great products, not locking in our users or advertisers. That said, we recognize that as Google grows, we're going to face more questions about how our business works.