| Get a gift card for your ‘old’ iPhone, iPad Posted: 09 Aug 2011 10:40 PM PDT 
Categories: iPHONETOUCH.BLORGE When you’re Apple, you often don’t need to invite the media or even send a press release — the world’s loitering on your doorstep and will automatically amplify and repeat anything you say. That’s the case with the fairly hefty upgrade and expansion of the Cupertino, California-based iPad, iPhone, iPod and Mac maker posted without [...] |
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| OS X Lion eclipses Linux among developers Posted: 09 Aug 2011 08:20 PM PDT 
Categories: MAC.BLORGE Here’s an odd data point, something the rest of us probably didn’t see coming. Nevertheless, here in North America, more than 400 professional software developers have spoken and they’re not speaking the language of open source or GPL or are they? Honestly, with Linux’s desktop market share stuck at about 1 percent for years, I [...] |
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| Windows 7 the leading OS by end of 2011 Posted: 09 Aug 2011 08:20 PM PDT 
Categories: VISTA.BLORGE Windows XP should finally be toppled from its perch as the king of operating systems by the end of this year, with Windows 7 taking over as the reigning monarch. Even though Windows 7 has been universally praised as the best operating system Microsoft has ever produced, and sold by the shedload as a result, [...] |
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| Hacking is now child’s play, literally Posted: 09 Aug 2011 01:20 PM PDT 
Categories: TECH.BLORGE If you understand technology and how it can be tweaked to your advantage then you have all the necessary skills to be a hacker. And in this day and age age is no barrier to that knowledge base. As someone who was born in the 1970s, I’ve had to learn how to use most of [...] |
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| Twitter, LinkedIn will fall to Google+ Posted: 09 Aug 2011 11:00 AM PDT 
Categories: TECH.BLORGE Searchzilla’s latest and by far most successful social networking venture to date will have little trouble gaining more members, perhaps claiming 22 percent of the available pool of US adults. Does this mean the end for its soon to be smaller competitors? There’s a fresh, as in steaming, Bloomberg/YouGov survey that posits Google+ has already [...] |
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| RIM caught in crossfire over London riots Posted: 09 Aug 2011 09:38 AM PDT 
Categories: MOBILE.BLORGE The good news for Research In Motion is that its BlackBerry messaging service is getting widespread publicity in the United Kingdom and beyond. The bad news is that the publicity is about rioters and looters. While news of the civil unrest has been spreading through public social networks such as Twitter (as has news of [...] |
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| TV giants aim to end 3D glasses confusion Posted: 09 Aug 2011 06:20 AM PDT 
Categories: TECH.BLORGE Three of the biggest television manufacturers are in talks to create a standard form of 3D glasses. The idea is to make the technology more accessible by people not having to gamble on buying the “wrong” system. The plan involves Panasonic, Samsung and Sony, who’ll be working with XPAND 3D, a company that makes active [...] |
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