Thursday, July 14, 2011

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Apple: B2B volume software pricing soon

Posted: 13 Jul 2011 10:00 PM PDT


Categories: MAC.BLORGE

Are you a developer selling software on the Mac App Store? Then you need to hustle over to Apple’s developer site and check out changes coming to the company’s revolutionary digital-only desktop app store, because there are big things afoot and you can’t play until you OK. You won’t see anything new on the Mac [...]

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Philadelphia succumbs to tablet madness, and it is not the iPad

Posted: 13 Jul 2011 07:40 PM PDT


Categories: TECH.BLORGE

It's painful to watch an entire industry stumble around in the dark, while at the same time market forces way beyond its control are eroding its very roots. Case in point, The Philadelphia Media Network, which in addition to publishing the big name rags in town, is  entering the hardware distribution business by planning to [...]

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Spotify launches in the U.S., finally

Posted: 13 Jul 2011 07:28 PM PDT


Categories: TECH.BLORGE

It may have taken two and a half years to happen but Spotify has finally launched in the U.S. The question now is whether Americans will take to the service as well as Europeans have. Spotify has announced that it will launch in the U.S. on Thursday morning. Exact details as to the subscription tiers [...]

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Lees announces new benefits for Microsoft partners at WPC

Posted: 13 Jul 2011 03:00 PM PDT


Categories: VISTA.BLORGE

At the 2011 Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC), Microsoft renewed it's claim that the Windows Phone operating system (OS) would be the number two cellphone operating system by 2015.  Along with that claim Microsoft outlined some of the benefits available to Windows partners. Andy Lees, president of Window's phone division, spoke about the upcoming new [...]

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Zuck blocks Google+ followers [pfft!]

Posted: 13 Jul 2011 10:20 AM PDT


Categories: TECH.BLORGE

Everyone was surprised when it came out that the Facebook CEO was the number one user on Google+. Kind of amazing, right? However, isn’t it more than just a little interesting that he and all of the Google big wigs that dominated the most followed list have now all faded to black — don’t follow [...]

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Customers on Netflix price hike: wah wah wah

Posted: 13 Jul 2011 05:40 AM PDT


Categories: TECH.BLORGE

The owners of Netflix have run over a puppy, slapped a small child and kidnapped the Easter Bunny. Oh, sorry, my mistake, they’ve actually just put some prices up. Not that you’d realize from the angry online response that followed the announcement, with views ranging from the idea that Netflix are a bunch of money-grabbing [...]

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