| Carbonite is broken under Lion Posted: 23 Jul 2011 01:20 AM PDT 
Categories: MAC.BLORGE By now it’s become a mantra — a successful backup strategy includes the original plus local and off-site backups. Carbonite is the best known if not best selling commercial off-site file backup and restoration solution. Sadly, it’s not Lion compatible and, worse still, the company didn’t tell anyone until the operating system actually shipped. On [...] |
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| Spotify subscriptions soar? Posted: 22 Jul 2011 11:00 PM PDT 
Categories: TECH.BLORGE How many is a lot? It took Rhapsody and Napster years to come up short of 1 million subscribers, about 800,000 and 700,000 paying customers, respectively. Jobs’ iTunes mob now tallies more than 200-million users, credit cards in hand. By comparison, the new kid on the block seems to be off to a good start. [...] |
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| iOS App Store: Meatier, beatier and just more Posted: 22 Jul 2011 08:40 PM PDT 
Categories: iPHONETOUCH.BLORGE Janet Jackson has never been shy about proclaiming her love for a “nice package.” In the world of mobile apps, the iPhone can be said to be very well endowed indeed. However, unwilling to rely on old conquests Apple’s spreading the love by opening in more countries and playing matchmaker for developers and enterprise customers. [...] |
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| T-Mobile offering iPhone compatible micro SIM cards Posted: 22 Jul 2011 01:40 PM PDT 
Categories: iPHONETOUCH.BLORGE In some alternate universe, or an area where Verizon, AT&T and Sprint don’t have a meaningful presence, this is probably a good deal. Are you ready to sign up for a two-year contract to get a “free” piece of plastic with an embedded circuit of three? iDownload Blog brings us the happy news that T-Mobile [...] |
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| Instagram has instafame with Bieber effect Posted: 22 Jul 2011 11:20 AM PDT 
Categories: TECH.BLORGE When a celebrity endorses your product, whether they’re being paid to or not, it means fame, fortune, and mainstream appeal lie just around the corner. Instagram has built a decent userbase, with around 7 million people now signed up to the photo-sharing app, and 2 million of them have been added in just the last [...] |
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| Sony’s insurer washes its hands of hacking claims Posted: 22 Jul 2011 06:40 AM PDT 
Categories: TECH.BLORGE Sony is facing 58 different class action suits over the hacking of its PlayStation Network. And its insurers want nothing to do with it. Zurich American Insurance wants a New York court to declare that it has no responsibility for any of the current lawsuits or any that might arise in the future. Specifically it [...] |
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