| Find My Mac available in iCloud beta Posted: 04 Aug 2011 12:20 AM PDT 
Categories: MAC.BLORGE The “Back to Mac” sub current, computers really don’t rate a “theme” from Apple these days, trickles on with the introduction of a highly desirable service that’s been available to iPhone users for over two years. However, for the rest of us, at least those that aren’t paid-in-full devs, we’ll just have to hope no [...] |
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| Microsoft dabbles in wearable technology Posted: 03 Aug 2011 10:00 PM PDT 
Categories: VISTA.BLORGE Who would have thought that Microsoft was dabbling in fashion technology? No one. But here's the thing, two of Microsoft's researchers won Best Concept and Best in Show this past June at the 15th annual International Symposium on Wearable Computers (ISWC) in San Francisco. In the latest Microsoft news, the company is touting the winning [...] |
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| Google attacks Microsoft, Apple, Oracle over “bogus patents” destroying Android Posted: 03 Aug 2011 05:20 PM PDT 
Categories: TECH.BLORGE Google is on the warpath against those companies trying to strangle Android out of existence. This could be a long, bloody battle. Google is no longer willing to sit by and watch its competitors gang up to try and squeeze Android out of the market. Not only is it looking at all the options available [...] |
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| Android tablets: Ugly on the inside, too Posted: 03 Aug 2011 12:40 PM PDT 
Categories: TECH.BLORGE Head on, many Android tablets look very much like Apple’s world-beating iPad. Viewed from the side, the comparison is less favorable with the other guys looking fatter and kludgier — a wedding cake smooshed down to a half inch or so with buttons, ports, etc. slapped on to satisfy items on a “hot features” check [...] |
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| iTunes Replay: Relearning past lessons Posted: 03 Aug 2011 10:20 AM PDT 
Categories: MAC.BLORGE Aside from superficial legalities, what’s the difference between Apple’s download and play anywhere iCloud music service, and BitTorrent? How you answer the question largely depends on which side of the religious divide you fall. Now, Apple’s moving to obviate some of that destructive rancor, though the debate won’t be fully silenced. Former EMI digital boss [...] |
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| CD ripping to be officially legal — in UK at least Posted: 03 Aug 2011 05:40 AM PDT 
Categories: TECH.BLORGE Every day millions of portable music player users break the law. Thankfully in Britain at least, the law is about to be dragged into, well, the late 20th century. The country’s business secretary Vince Cable (pictured) has announced the UK government plans to formally legalize “format shifting”: in other words, ripping a CD or DVD [...] |
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