| Apple cleans up [again] in PCMag awards Posted: 19 Jul 2011 01:40 AM PDT 
Categories: MAC.BLORGE For the rest of us, especially those that don’t get tech news printed on dead trees, that Apple-branded computers clean up year after in this particular magazine’s Reader Choice awards is more than a little ironic. Elitist snark aside, Macs are nevertheless “personal computers” and all of the other awards for Apple’s other products are, [...] |
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| Microsoft Mediaroom IPTV conference delay fuels Xbox Live TV rumors Posted: 18 Jul 2011 11:20 PM PDT 
Categories: VISTA.BLORGE Microsoft recently sent out a notification indicating that the company's Mediaroom IPTV Technical Conference will be postponed until early 2012. The conference is typically held around September but the sudden change in schedule has prompted some to speculate that Microsoft may be working on something big. Microsoft recently sent out emails to the developers registered [...] |
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| An electronic textbook breakthrough? Posted: 18 Jul 2011 11:20 PM PDT 
Categories: TECH.BLORGE No, Amazon isn’t the first vendor at the party. However, as Apple has shown time and again, if you arrive fashionably late with the blend — shaken, not stirred — the planets will align and deliver the world to your doorstep. Ebooks should be orders of magnitude cheaper than their printed counterparts. With relatively minimal [...] |
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| You can feel the [iPhone] love Posted: 18 Jul 2011 09:00 PM PDT 
Categories: iPHONETOUCH.BLORGE Earlier this year, back in February and March, phandroids gloated that soon, very soon Google’s mobile platform would bury Apple — it was inevitable. Well, perhaps it’s still going to happen, but for the time being momentum has shifted back to the iPhone. The future buying trends folks at ChangeWave have put out a fairly [...] |
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| Apple vs. HTC proves USPTO is dumb Posted: 18 Jul 2011 06:40 PM PDT 
Categories: TECH.BLORGE Apple might be the big, bad aggressor in its case against smartphone manufacturer HTC, but the blame ultimately lies with the USPTO. Which is dumb. Since Steve Jobs took over as CEO of Apple and turned it into a tech giant, exactly what it started out as anathema to, the company has aggressively pursued patents [...] |
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| Belgian newspapers accuse Google of being spiteful Posted: 18 Jul 2011 07:00 AM PDT 
Categories: TECH.BLORGE Earlier this year, a group of Belgian newspapers won a court victory forcing Google to stop including their pages in results. Now the group is complaining that Google isn’t including their pages in results. It is of course, a little more complicated than that. Unless you’re Google, in which case it’s very simple. The group, [...] |
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