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Chrome OS CR-48 Netbooks begin to arrive

....at least to New York residents.

SeatGeek's Ben Kessler tweeted this morning that his Chrome OS Netbook was waiting for him at his doorstep.  According to Flickr, the picture was taken in Manhattan.

PCMag editor Lance Ulanoff just tweeted that his ChromeOS Netbook arrived as well.  In Manhattan.

NYC's Laptop Magazine also just got theirs.  So did Larry Dignan of ZDNet.

Lifehacker Editor Kevin Purdy got his all the way up in Buffalo.

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EA founder: I've made the most mistakes out of anyone in gaming

Trip Hawkins went through the wringer, but now the Digital Chocolate CEO is sitting pretty atop the biggest industry trend to emerge in a long time: social and casual gaming.

Trip Hawkins will be the first to admit that his prescience on gaming trends can be both blessing and curse. It obviously paid off in 1982, when he founded Electronic Arts, (NASDAQ:ERTS) which today is one of the largest publishers in MORE

New York (Yes, New York!) is tech city

Watch out, Silicon Valley. Thanks to Google, Foursquare, and others, the Big Apple is fast becoming home to some top Internet talent.

New York's tech cred is on the rise: Manhattan-based Foursquare's geolocation service is the envy of Silicon Valley. Facebook bought out two New York startups, and Google just purchased the huge Chelsea building where it employs nearly a tenth of its global workforce. Now incubators are sprouting downtown, venture MORE

'Free' iPads at Bloomingdale's

Just come to New York City next weekend and buy $1,500 worth of brand-name sportswear

The full-page ad at right appeared in Sunday's New York Times.

This is the first time we've seen "free" Apple (AAPL) iPads offered as incentives this holiday season, and we suspect it won't be the last.

But before you fly, drive or take the IRT to Bloomingdale's flagship Manhattan store at 59th Street and Lexington Avenue, better read MORE

Apple iOS: Master of the social gaming universe

It's not ads that make social gaming companies money, it's virtual pink tractors. Flurry Analytics says Apple's in-app e-commerce function is where developers can maximize bang for their buck.

At the Social Gaming Summit in New York City today, Peter Farago, Vice President of Marketing at Flurry Analytics revealed some quick-hit stats regarding social gaming app makers like Zynga who use free-to-play business models and rely on features like virtual goods MORE

Twitter's Dorsey: Fixing credit cards with Square. Health records next?

With Square, the entrepreneur wants to bypass middlemen and empower small merchants. But can he revolutionize an industry wedded to decades of status quo?

When Jack Dorsey's friend, a glassmaker based in San Francisco, failed to sell one of his pieces on the street simply because he couldn't accept credit cards, he saw an opportunity. They invented Square, Dorsey's new company that transforms mobile device into a credit card readers, letting MORE

Apple staffers go nuts on 3 continents

Hollering and high fives at store openings in Queensland, Montpellier and New York City

Someday Apple (AAPL) will open a store and no one will notice.

But we're not quite there yet.

The company held grand openings for new retail outlets on three continents Saturday -- in Chermside, Australia; Montpellier, France; and New York City -- and each was accompanied by huge crowds and predictably over-the-top staffers.

As the videos below the fold demonstrate, MORE

Apple is coming to Broadway

The Big Apple's newest Mac store is opening on the Upper West Side next Saturday

Media invitations went out Friday for a press preview of the new Apple Store in Manhattan -- the city's fourth -- scheduled to be unveiled Saturday, Nov. 14.

The store, located on a nearly triangular site at Broadway and 67th Street, is well-positioned to get attention from the crowds and TV cameras heading for Central Park West MORE

IBM's Smarter Planet: the roadshow

Live from New York, it's Sam Palmisano.

The business strategy made possible by $50 billion in acquisitions, hundreds of millions on marketing, and various forms of ecological disaster, is taking the show on the road–to Manhattan's Lincoln Center.

For the next day and a half, IBM's (IBM) Smarter Planet initiative will occupy New York City's Lincoln Center in the form of a conference on developing smarter cities. IBM CEO Sam Palmisano and MORE

Who would wait a week in line for an iPhone 3G?

Who's crazy enough to camp out for a week on the streets of New York City for a chance to be first to buy an iPhone 3G?

TheWhoFarm, that's who, a newly minted publicity-seeking environmental collective with an agrico-political mission: to persuade the 44th President of the U.S. -- whoever that turns out to be -- to transform the White House's 17-acre lawn into an organic farm.

"We're here to restore the MORE