| Stinger Tech support cut to Taliban Posted: 12 Aug 2011 04:20 AM PDT 
Categories: TECH.BLORGE Good people died when the Taliban shot down a Chinook helicopter in Afghanistan. At first I asked myself where would the Taliban obtain a surface to air missle, but having seen Charlie Wilson’s War, I knew that the CIA had supplied Stinger FIM 92 surface to air missiles to Afghan rebels fighting a brutal Soviet invasion, a justifiable action given that the [...] |
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| OS X Lion: The death of dial up Posted: 11 Aug 2011 09:20 PM PDT 
Categories: MAC.BLORGE Whereas the loss of the Rosetta PPC compatibility layer generated more ink (and angst), the mothership dropped another legacy feature with the release of OS X 10.7 — support for the Apple USB Modem. Although there are third-party options, the lack of a simple driver makes the $80 Apple-branded dongle obsolete by decree. The last [...] |
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| ‘Facebook Down’ threat shows weakness at heart of Anonymous Posted: 11 Aug 2011 09:20 PM PDT 
Categories: TECH.BLORGE Anonymous could be planning to bring Facebook down on Nov. 5. But probably not. Either way, the suggestion it may isn’t doing the hacktivist organization any favors. Last month saw a video posted to YouTube claiming that Facebook was going to be taken offline on Nov. 5. The clip bears all the hallmarks of having [...] |
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| Friday marks the 30th anniversary of the IBM PC Posted: 11 Aug 2011 07:00 PM PDT 
Categories: VISTA.BLORGE For those of you not old enough to remember when International Business Machines (IBM) entered the personal computer arena, you just do not know what an impact this computer had. There were other operating systems that were in use like CP/M, Apple, and Commodore Basic, but Microsoft's operating systems took over the world. The introduction [...] |
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| Dr Dre cashes in with smartphone audio Posted: 11 Aug 2011 11:20 AM PDT 
Categories: MOBILE.BLORGE HTC is investing $300 million in high-end audio technology for its portable devices. And the deal looks set to make Dr Dre the world’s richest hip hop star. The smartphone manufacturer has bought a majority share of Beats, a company co-founded by Dre (real name Andre Young) that makes some seriously high-tech speakers and headphones [...] |
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| Cable cutting gains steam Posted: 11 Aug 2011 09:26 AM PDT 
Categories: TECH.BLORGE My wife and I hate recurring payments (i.e. debt with no possibility of payback), so we cut the cable three years ago and haven’t looked back. A fresh series of reports out of the subscriber TV business says we have a lot more friends. Associated Press (Yahoo) is reporting loses by subscription TV providers. Whereas [...] |
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