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• Before the bell: AAPL, ERTS, HAS, MSFT, AMZN, GOOG, WMT

  Published: August 10, 2007, 4:15 am

  Tags: Aapl, Before The Bell, Beforethebell, Electronic Arts, Electronicarts, Erts, Has, Hasbro, Inthenews, Iphone Screen, Iphone Screen Loss, Iphonescreen, Iphonescreenloss, Microsoft, Monopoly Video Game, Monopolyvideogame, Msft, Scrabble Video Game, Scrabblevideogame, Stocks To

  Filed under: Before the bell, Google (GOOG), Microsoft (MSFT), Apple Inc (AAPL), Wal-Mart (WMT), Amazon.com (AMZN), Hasbro Inc (HAS), Electronic Arts (ERTS)Main market news here: Before the bell: Losses aren't overIlluminating Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPhone users' reports of dead spots on their touch screens, an analyst notes that the property rights

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• Before the bell: AAPL, ERTS, HAS, MSFT, AMZN, GOOG, WMT

  Published: August 10, 2007, 4:15 am

  Tags: Aapl, Before The Bell, Beforethebell, Electronic Arts, Electronicarts, Erts, Has, Hasbro, Inthenews, Iphone Screen, Iphone Screen Loss, Iphonescreen, Iphonescreenloss, Microsoft, Monopoly Video Game, Monopolyvideogame, Msft, Scrabble Video Game, Scrabblevideogame, Stocks To

  Filed under: Before the bell, Google (GOOG), Microsoft (MSFT), Apple Inc (AAPL), Wal-Mart (WMT), Amazon.com (AMZN), Hasbro Inc (HAS), Electronic Arts (ERTS)Main market news here: Before the bell: Losses aren't overIlluminating Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPhone users' reports of dead spots on their touch screens, an analyst notes that the property rights

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• Electronic Arts and Hasbro Enter Blood Pact

  Published: August 10, 2007, 5:37 pm

  Tags: Games Industry, Gamer Life, Electronic Arts, Game Consoles, Game Platforms, Games, Game Companies, Digital Games, Electronic Arts, Games, Hasbro, Licensing Agreement, Mobile Telephones, Monopoly, Reuters, Scrabble, Worldwide Rights, Yahtzee

  which include Monopoly, Scrabble and Yahtzee. Electronic Arts will hold worldwide rights to create digital games for electronic devices including mobile telephones and over the Internet through 2013. The games are slated to start launching in 2008. “Our toy and game brands have been family-favorites for decades, and aligning ourselves

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• Casting A Few Letters Out Among Friends

  Published: August 17, 2007, 9:39 pm

  Tags: Community Connecting, Marketing For Non Marketers, The Art Of Life, Web, Connecting, Networking, Scrabble, Scrabulous

  and I'm talking abut Scrabble. But here we are The thing is, I'm getting this funny reputation as a scrabble player. Honestly it's just a little social thing. It takes a minute or two to play some tiles in a couple of games and then go along to answer messages, write blog posts, participate in meetings - ok watch football -

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• Twitter Can Haz Nap?

  Published: August 15, 2007, 3:43 pm

  Tags: 2nd Life Metaverse, Caught Along The Way, Community Connecting, New Media Social Media, Social Networking, The Art Of Life, Facebook, Lolcats, Maintenance, Scrabble, Second Life, Tweets, Twitter, Wednesday

  maintenance, facebook scrabble has a little bug and I'm celebrating increased blog traffic. In the meantime, I'm feeling a little like a nap myself. "Going off-grid for some restorative work" sounds more productive than "sleeping in the afternoon."

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• DS Scrabble Game Shocks Parent With Derogatory Word

  Published: September 27, 2007, 5:15 pm

  Tags: Nintendo, Gamer Life, Ubisoft, Derogatory, Junior, Offensive, Scrabble

  an odd thing to hear of both Scrabble and the DS simultaneously causing controversy of any kind. A man in the UK is calling for the DS game, Junior Scrabble 2007, to be recalled, citing a derogatory word included in the game. The particular word in question: “lesbo.” Zachary McAdam describes playing the game with his seven-year old

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• Ubisoft Says Sorry about the L-Word

  Published: October 3, 2007, 4:52 am

  Tags: Nintendo, Portable, Gamer Life, Ubisoft, Game Companies, Offensive Word, Scrabble

  Ubisoft, distributor of Scrabble 2007 for the DS, apologized for the inclusion of the word “lesbo” being included in the “junior version” of the game. Jonathan covered this issue last week. Ubisoft is not pulling the game, and has apparently considered the general apology to be enough. It seems to me a simple patch

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• Poopies: Lesbo In Scrabble DS? You Ain't Seen Nothing...

  Published: October 3, 2007, 3:40 pm

  Tags: Cunt, Hasbro, Lesbo, Poopies, Scrabble, Scrabble Ds

  "lesbo" is in the list of Scrabble DS suggested words, and elaborated that if he'd known that the Scrabble dictionary were so naughty, he'd have "played a lot more Scrabble." Well suffice it to say, I intend on playing a bit more Scrabble, too, based upon this update from a reader:Hey, my wife was playing ds scrabble and it suggested the

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• Scrabble Reviews: Word Freak and Word Wars

  Published: October 9, 2007, 2:52 pm

  Tags: Scrabble, Movies, Board Games, Literature, Gaming

  and a must read for any Scrabble fan. Steve Fatsis, a journalist for the Wall Street Journal, took a year to follow some of the main American figures in the Scrabble tournament scene. In so doing, he became a bit of a word freak himself, climbing in the ranks of national Scrabble standings to a respectable level.The reading is easy-going,

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• Scrabbulous - it's More than Idle Chatter

  Published: October 17, 2007, 1:34 pm

  Tags: Community Connecting, Marketing For Non Marketers, New Media Social Media, Social Networking, Connections, Conversation, Facebook, Marketing, Scrabble, Scrabbulous

  lately you know that I play scrabble via a facebook application that I've enthused about before. In the example at the right I'm the master scrabbler who makes words like NUT and SIT. Suffice it to say that most opponents have nothing to worry about unless I get a lucky rack of letters. I'm not there to prove my spelling prowess. Like

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• Scrabble Welcome Mat Welcomes Immaturity [Wordsmith]

  Published: November 1, 2007, 10:14 am

  Tags: Gadgets, Home Entertainment, Mat, Scrabble, Scrabble Mat, Wordsmith, Your Welcome Mat

  With "Your Welcome Mat" by designer Jeni Rodger, the swappable letters make for endless fun. I mean, you don't even need to "welcome" people anymore. You could be like, "yo, sup" instead. And then your in-laws would know that you aren't just some beast that can be tamed, groomed and shoved in a clean pair of underwear. You despise clean

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• Here's all the stuff Oprah gave away yesterday

  Published: November 21, 2007, 8:40 am

  Tags: Holidays Gifts, Josh Groban, Lg Fridge, Macon, My Favorite Things, Oprah Winfrey, Oprah S Favorite Things, Scrabble, Ugg Boots, Williams Sonoma

  Filed under: TV Royalty, Daytime, Celebrities, Talk ShowEvery year around this time, Oprah surprises her audience by announcing that they've come to the show on the day of her "Favorite Things" episode. The audience goes...well, berserk. You really can't understand what it's like if you haven't seen it. Imagine The Beatles, circa 1964. Then

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• Scrabble Cheaters: Use Your Powers for Good

  Published: December 22, 2007, 2:24 pm

  Tags: 826nyc, Benefit, Board Game, Car Smash, Charity, Cheat, Life, Scrabble, Scrabulous

  You may be good at Scrabble... but are you bad enough?Here's an interesting little tidbit: a Scrabble fundraiser tournament. Sounds pretty pedestrian... at first. However, players are given the opportunity to cheat,...read more

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• Franklin SCR-226 Official Scrabble Players Dictionary

  Published: January 8, 2008, 1:57 am

  Tags: Franklin Scr 226 Official Scrabble Players Dictionary

  Franklin SCR-226 Official Scrabble Players Dictionary Franklin The Official SCRABBLE Players Dictionary - Based on the Merriam-Webster's The Official SCRABBLE Player's Dictionary, 3rd edition, this... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

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• Facebook told to pull Scrabulous [Facebook Is Dead]

  Published: January 16, 2008, 4:49 pm

  Tags: Facebook, Facebook Is Dead, Internets, Scrabble, Valleywag

  Hasbro and Mattel, co-owners of Scrabble, asked Facebook to remove its one good app, "Scrabulous." So far the online game's method of distinguishing itself from the board game with the exact same...

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