| Controversy over Microsoft’s Xbox Live Points glitch recall Posted: 13 Aug 2011 12:40 AM PDT 
Categories: GAMER.BLORGE Earlier today, Xbox 360 owners started noticing free Microsoft Points being deposited into their accounts. Some games decided to take advantage of the situation by spending the points. According to reports, a glitch in Microsoft's Rewards program caused thousands of points to be deposited into player's accounts. Some decided to report the issue to Microsoft [...] |
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| New Counter-Strike: Global Offensive game announced by Valve Posted: 12 Aug 2011 10:20 PM PDT 
Categories: GAMER.BLORGE Rumors of a new Counter-Strike game emerged earlier today after posts on Steam forums alluded to a game titled Global Offensive. Valve has now confirmed that the developer is working on Counter-Strike: Global Offensive. As reported by CVG, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive is currently being developed for the PlayStation Network, Xbox Live Arcade and Steam. The [...] |
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| The end isn’t nigh! Apple updates malware definitions Posted: 12 Aug 2011 06:20 PM PDT 
Categories: MAC.BLORGE When MacDefender, a trojan propagated by malicious webpages, spread earlier this year, there were pronouncements of platform doom for the rest of us. Apple then released an OS X update that upgraded their integrated malware blocker and MacDefender quickly faded to black. This time, a trojan that masquerades as a Flash plugin installer, won’t get [...] |
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| Kim vs. Jim in iPhone 5 smack down! Posted: 12 Aug 2011 01:40 PM PDT 
Categories: iPHONETOUCH.BLORGE Rumors come and go just as quickly. However, when two of the most respected names in Apple rumorology spar over the details, there’s only one way to settle the score — square the circle and bring on the cage, it’s an iPhone 5 street rumble. Quoting Kodawarisan, a Japanese Apple fansite, MacRumors’ Arnold Kim claims [...] |
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| Flash is dead? Thank Steve Jobs Posted: 12 Aug 2011 11:20 AM PDT 
Categories: TECH.BLORGE What a difference a year makes. In 2010, Apple’s CEO was vilified by the haters for saying what everyone knew was true — Adobe’s bloated multimedia middleware would never run well on mobile, is woefully insecure and uses resources like a Hummer driving Republican. The haters still hate, but most everything else has changed. Back [...] |
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| Fake Apple Stores rife in China, and virtually unstoppable Posted: 12 Aug 2011 09:00 AM PDT 
Categories: TECH.BLORGE The Chinese authorities are stamping down on fake Apple stores. But I can’t see their efforts making a vast amount of difference. In July it came to light that a new phenomenon was just starting to emerge in China of fake Apple stores. These were retailers dressing their shops up to look and feel just [...] |
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| Twitter rip-off Heello seems pointless Posted: 12 Aug 2011 06:40 AM PDT 
Categories: TECH.BLORGE A newly launched social networking site is a blatant imitation on Twitter. So blatant, in fact, that there’s suspicion it’s not all that meets the eye. Heello is taking sign-ups for members but, like Twitter, can be viewed without creating an account. It’s not just like Twitter: to all intents it is Twitter. Users post [...] |
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