Tech Update: Japanese Playing a New Video Game: Catch-Up

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September 20, 2010 Tech Update

Japanese Playing a New Video Game: Catch-Up By HIROKO TABUCHI The West's recent dominance in video games is spurring a growing group of Japanese game developers to ask a once-unthinkable question: can they learn from the West? British Chip Designer Prepares for Wider Demand By ASHLEE VANCE ARM, which designs low-power chips, commands a prime position amid one of the next technological revolutions. Times Topics: ARM Holdings ADVERTISEMENT I.B.M. Buying Netezza for About $1.7 Billion By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS I.B.M. said it was offering $27 a share for the data storage company, a 10 percent premium over its last closing share price. DealBook In Barnes & Noble Spat, Much Is at Stake By MICHAEL J. DE LA MERCED The struggle for the bookseller centers on the company's plans for competing in the era of electronic books. DealBook: I.S.S. Backs Burkle Slate for Barnes & Noble's Board Apple's Latest iPhone to Go on Sale in China By REUTERS The iPhone 4 will be sold starting Saturday through China Unicom on two-year phone contracts and also through Apple retail stores in China. Texts From the Lifeguard Chair Are Raising Concerns Over Safety By BOB TEDESCHI The American Lifeguard Association reports a sharp rise in complaints about lifeguards texting on the job. Cloud Computing Hits Snag in Europe By KEVIN J. O'BRIEN The potential of cloud computing, which is growing rapidly in the United States, is hamstrung in Europe by strict privacy laws. Spain Is Ripe for Cloud Computing but Slow to Adopt Dodgers Fan Makes Most of McCourt Divorce Case By BILLY WITZ Joshua Fisher, a 24-year-old University of Minnesota Law School student and lifelong Dodgers fan, wedded those two interests and started a Web site, DodgerDivorce.com. After Yahoo Talks, Alibaba Says Its Buyback Bid Is Over By BLOOMBERG NEWS A spokesman for Alibaba said the company had "no intention of raising this issue again." Technology Most E-Mailed Cloud Computing Hits Snag in Europe 3-D Printing Spurs a Manufacturing Revolution Japanese Playing a New Video Game: Catch-Up Can Digg Find Its Way in the Crowd? A Professor's Review of Online Cheat Sheets Bits: Google's Chief on Social, Mobile and Conflict Gadgetwise: An Easy, Painless Way to Keep a PC in Shape Bits: I.B.M.: Africa Is the Next Growth Frontier Bits: A Loophole Big Enough for a Cookie to Fit Through State of the Art: Your Own Hot Spot, and Cheap ADVERTISEMENT Get home delivery of The New York Times for as low as $3.15 a week.

Personal Tech Gadgetwise Blog Tablets Are Coming, Fast and Furious By SAM GROBART A host of tablets are headed this way in the coming months. Here's the latest on them, and what's in store for the future. Gadgetwise Blog Purel for iPads By ROY FURCHGOTT An antimicrobial spray reduces fingerprints on touchscreens Technology Headlines From Around the Web What's This? Official Google Blog Three million businesses have gone Google: celebrating growth, innovation and security Digital Daily iPhone 4 Hits China Saturday Boing Boing Visual 6502: a visual simulation of a vintage microprocessor, in Javascript Official Google Enterprise Blog A more secure cloud for millions of Google Apps users CNET News.com Facebook denies 'Facebook phone' report More at Blogrunner » Five-Star Apps Are Awesome, Simple and Done September 20, 2010, 10:19 AM Oracle And H.P. Put Feud On Hold For A Night September 20, 2010, 1:41 AM One on One: Keiji Inafune, Game Designer September 20, 2010, 12:55 AM Facebook Denies It Is Secretly Building a Phone September 19, 2010, 2:40 PM Go to the Bits Blog » ADVERTISEMENT

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Rush Limbaugh Gets It on O'Donnell

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Opinion Today: The Meat Eaters

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September 20, 2010 Opinion Today

The Stone The Meat Eaters By JEFF MCMAHAN Would the controlled extinction of carnivorous species be a good thing? Living Rooms The Geometry of Sprawl By CHRISTOPH GIELEN and GEOFF MANAUGH What can be gained from studying community design from high above. ADVERTISEMENT The Thread Hot Tea, Cool G.O.P. By TOBIN HARSHAW Party elders fret that the Delaware primary may cost Republicans the Senate. It is possible that they're just snobs? Room for Debate Can Speech Be Limited for Public Workers? By THE EDITORS Should a New Jersey transit worker be fired for burning a Koran in his off-duty hours? Bloggingheads 'Mad Men' Anachronisms John McWhorter of The New Republic and Benjamin Zimmer of The New York Times discuss the language of "Mad Men." Dot Earth A 10 Year Checkup on Global Goals By ANDREW C. REVKIN Leaders prepare to grade themselves on global development targets set 10 years ago. Schott's Vocab Left-Handed Smoke-Shifters By BEN SCHOTT This weekend, co-vocabularists have generously shared fool's errands. ADVERTISEMENT Get home delivery of The New York Times for as low as $3.15 a week.

Conscience of a Liberal Have You Left No Sense of Decency? By PAUL KRUGMAN Why the rich feel it's OK to whine. On the Ground Notes From a Young American in Congo: Caffeine! By AMY ERNST Guest blogger Amy Ernst writes for Nicholas Kristof about her caffeine needs while living and working in Congo. Evaluations Palin the Front-Runner? By ROSS DOUTHAT No, she isn't. Freakonomics on NYTimes.com The authors Steven Levitt, Stephen Dubner and guest contributors blog about the hidden side of the economy. Read More » Today's Columns Paul Krugman: The Angry Rich Ross Douthat: The Pope and the Crowds ADVERTISEMENT

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U.S. Top News Early Edition: BP says oil spill compensation payout rate soars

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Good Morning Omss, MON 20 Sep 2010    BP says oil spill compensation payout rate soars Karzai believes too early to judge Afghan election Large hurricane Igor moves north of Bermuda China media warn Japan over escalating sea row UK hands over violent Afghan district to U.S. troops Swedish Greens say won't support centre-right government American released from Iran prison says she's no spy Greece delays stress tests ahead of NBG rights deal Woman opens fire in German town, four killed Pope, ending his trip, recalls Nazi terror in WW2 India train crash kills at least 13 Swedish PM short of majority Woman opens fire in German town BP says oil spill compensation payout rate soars September 20, 2010 04:31 AM ET LONDON (Reuters) - BP said payouts to people affected by its Gulf of Mexico oil spill had dramatically increased since it surrendered authority for dispensing funds to an independent administrator. Full Article Karzai believes too early to judge Afghan election September 20, 2010 08:34 AM ET KABUL (Reuters) - Afghan President Hamid Karzai believes it is too early to judge the quality of this weekend's parliamentary vote, his spokesman said on Monday, as the election watchdog said it expected thousands of fraud complaints. Full Article Large hurricane Igor moves north of Bermuda September 20, 2010 09:26 AM ET HAMILTON (Reuters) - Hurricane Igor lashed Bermuda with more high winds and driving rain on Monday, following an overnight pounding of the British island territory, as it moved away north over the Atlantic toward maritime eastern Canada. Full Article China media warn Japan over escalating sea row September 20, 2010 08:36 AM ET BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese media Monday warned Japan it risked intensified reprisals over a sea dispute and claimed that many back military force to settle a long feud over islands between Asia's two biggest economies. Full Article UK hands over violent Afghan district to U.S. troops September 20, 2010 08:15 AM ET LONDON (Reuters) - British troops have handed over responsibility for one of the deadliest districts in southern Afghanistan to American forces, Britain's defense ministry said on Monday. Full Article Swedish Greens say won't support centre-right government September 20, 2010 09:34 AM ET STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Sweden's Green Party said on Monday it would not support the center-right Alliance government that lost its parliamentary majority in Sunday's election. Full Article American released from Iran prison says she's no spy September 20, 2010 08:21 AM ET NEW YORK (Reuters) - An American woman released last week after being held in Iran with two friends for over a year on suspicion of spying said on Sunday they were innocent hikers who never intended to cross into Iran from Iraq. Full Article Greece delays stress tests ahead of NBG rights deal September 20, 2010 09:17 AM ET ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece will delay stress testing of its banks until October to allow its largest lender to complete a big rights issue, part of efforts to begin financing its economy again on international markets. Full Article Woman opens fire in German town, four killed September 20, 2010 06:14 AM ET BERLIN (Reuters) - Four people were killed and at least one person seriously injured when a woman armed with a gun opened fire in and around a hospital in the southern German town of Loerrach, authorities said on Sunday. Full Article Pope, ending his trip, recalls Nazi terror in WW2 September 20, 2010 01:12 AM ET BIRMINGHAM, England (Reuters) - Pope Benedict on Sunday expressed "shame and horror" over the wartime suffering caused by his German homeland and said he was moved to mark the 70th anniversary of a key air victory with Britons. Full Article

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