| Insomniac has been holding back the goods on Resistance 3 Posted: 04 Aug 2011 11:00 PM PDT 
Categories: GAMER.BLORGE Insomniac announced that Resistance 3 has gone gold earlier today. This means that the game has been sent to manufacturing to be stamped and boxed. In celebration the studio released an incredible story trailer. Insomniac has been keeping the single player story for Resistance 3 under wraps. The premise has been talked about but not [...] |
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| PlayStation Vita launching in early 2012 across US and EU Posted: 04 Aug 2011 11:00 PM PDT 
Categories: GAMER.BLORGE During E3 this year Sony revealed that the PlayStation Vita would have a "phased global rollout" starting this year. It appears that this roll out will start in Japan and work its way to the US. According to MSN Money, Sony boss Kaz Hirai revealed that the PlayStation Vita will go on sale by the [...] |
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| Magic Mouse is dead! Long live Magic Mouse! Posted: 04 Aug 2011 09:20 PM PDT 
Categories: MAC.BLORGE Reports circulated Apple was about to kill its no button, no wire Magic Mouse — its part number had been pulled from the company’s catalog and was all but kaput. That said, with touch and gesture based OS X Lion in circulation, not mention Cupertino’s penchant for killing anything viewed as superfluous, offing the rodent [...] |
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| ‘IE users are dumb’ story revealed as fake Posted: 04 Aug 2011 09:20 PM PDT 
Categories: VISTA.BLORGE It turns out users of Internet Explorer aren’t retarded after all. Unlike the technology bloggers who promoted the fact they were. Which includes myself. Oops. At the end of last week (Fri, Jul 29) a story appeared which suggested that Internet Explorer users had lower IQs than those of other Web browsers. In particular, those [...] |
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| iOS 5, iPhone 5: Sooner than later Posted: 04 Aug 2011 12:00 PM PDT 
Categories: iPHONETOUCH.BLORGE Apple has announced that iOS 5 will ship in the Fall, which officially begins at 5:04AM on September 23. Will we get our hands on this hotly anticipated mobile operating system release before then? Perhaps another large-scale “semi-public” beta like Apple employed with OS X Lion? Cult of Mac and a lot of other folks [...] |
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| Rolling.fm is Turntable.fm by another name Posted: 04 Aug 2011 11:58 AM PDT 
Categories: TECH.BLORGE Why innovate when you can just copy someone else’s idea lock, stock, and barrel? Not that I’m complaining, mind. It was only in June that I discovered Turntable.fm, a new music sharing and music streaming website that was building a huge buzz. It was still in beta and so there were a few niggling issues, [...] |
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| Smartphone ‘addiction’ claim is balderdash Posted: 04 Aug 2011 10:20 AM PDT 
Categories: MOBILE.BLORGE A newly-published survey claims smartphone users are addicted to the devices. It’s an eyecatching claim that stands up until about two seconds after you start looking at the figures. When I first saw headlines about the survey, I assumed it was a typical case of journalists cherry-picking data and coming up with a misleading title. [...] |
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| Skype: Who’s pwning who? Posted: 04 Aug 2011 09:40 AM PDT 
Categories: TECH.BLORGE Back in 2005, eBay purchased the internet telephony leader for billions and some folks scratched their heads while others snickered at Skype’s apparent slight of hand. Fast forward six years, Redmond’s paid $8.5 billion for the company and odd things are happening again. Last year, after years of top management turnover and technology missteps, eBay [...] |
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| ‘Relentless’ attacks put LulzSec into perspective Posted: 04 Aug 2011 07:20 AM PDT 
Categories: TECH.BLORGE We in the tech media have given a lot of coverage to the boisterous “hactivism” attacks of groups such as Anonymous and LulzSec. But claims by security firm McAfee serve as a reminder that it’s the quiet ones you have to watch. The firm has published a report on what it’s calling “Operation Shady RAT” [...] |
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