| PSN Welcome Back program boosted PS3 game sales Posted: 12 Jul 2011 10:00 PM PDT 
Categories: GAMER.BLORGE According to recent reports Sony's PSN welcome back program may have helped boost paid for game sales on the digital distribution platform. Some interesting stats revealed that the free games also spurred interest in its sequels. EEDAR recently released a report detailing some interesting statistics around game sales on the PlayStation Network. Using data from [...] |
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| Former Xbox exec to help GameStop go digital Posted: 12 Jul 2011 10:00 PM PDT 
Categories: GAMER.BLORGE A former Microsoft executive will be joining forces with GameStop to help expand the brick and mortar's market share. With the increase in visibility in the digital distribution arena its not surprising GameStop is looking towards expanding into that market. As reported by CVG, Shane Kim, former Microsoft Interactive Entertainment Business executive will be joining [...] |
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| Microsoft wants Windows XP to die, please Posted: 12 Jul 2011 08:20 PM PDT 
Categories: VISTA.BLORGE Microsoft wants XP to die. It really, really does. Unfortunately you idiots just won’t let go. On the Windows Team Blog, Stephen Rose, IT community manager for the Windows commercial team, suggests the time is now ripe for us all to move on from Windows XP and switch to Windows 7 instead. While Microsoft still [...] |
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| House votes against freedom of choice Posted: 12 Jul 2011 08:20 PM PDT 
Categories: TECH.BLORGE The House, today, has voted to keep the 2007 Better Use of Light Bulbs (BULB) Act which will set restrictions on the efficiency of light bulbs starting January 1, 2012, requiring that they be 25-30 percent more efficient than traditional incandescent bulbs. Thomas Edison, father of the light bulb, is quoted in saying, “Anything that [...] |
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| Apple proves itself anti-competitive once again with new HTC patent complaint Posted: 12 Jul 2011 03:40 PM PDT 
Categories: TECH.BLORGE Another day, another example of Apple being anti-competitive and turning to litigation rather than fighting for customers in the marketplace like everybody else. With smartphones now representing the future of the mobile sector, tensions between the main players are heating up. In actuality it’s Apple vs. everyone else, because Apple really doesn’t like having competition [...] |
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| Smartphone stats a headache for website finances Posted: 12 Jul 2011 10:54 AM PDT 
Categories: MOBILE.BLORGE More than a third of American adults now own a smartphone according to new figures. And perhaps more significantly, one in four smartphone owners now say the handset is their main way of getting online — which could have consequences for online advertising. The figures come from the Pew Internet Project, which regularly produces statistics [...] |
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| Philadelphia newspapers sell their own tablet Posted: 12 Jul 2011 06:20 AM PDT 
Categories: TECH.BLORGE Since 1776, Philadelphia has played host to some seriously important writing. Today the city tries to write a new rulebook for the way Americans consume their news. The city’s main newspaper group, the Philadelphia Media Network, has decided upon a creative way of battling the loss of readers to the Internet. It’s going to sell [...] |
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