| $250 PS3 profitable as Sony denies PS4 Posted: 17 Aug 2011 09:20 PM PDT 
Categories: GAMER.BLORGE Sony has declared it is still making money from the PS3 despite the price drop while denying that the PS4 is on its way. Whether you believe the company on either count is really up to you. As Mike reported yesterday (Aug. 16), Sony is dropping the price of the PS3 by $50, meaning the [...] |
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| Amazon owns Web as online retail booms Posted: 17 Aug 2011 05:20 PM PDT 
Categories: TECH.BLORGE Online retail is booming, and Amazon is the undisputed king of this sector, with 20 percent of the world’s Internet population visiting the site over the course of a single month. According to the latest figures from comScore for retail and auction websites in June, online retail is a growing sector showing no signs of [...] |
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| As Windows withers, Mac soldiers on Posted: 17 Aug 2011 03:00 PM PDT 
Categories: MAC.BLORGE These are stunning numbers. As European PC sales plummet by about one-fifth overall, Apple was the only top five vendor to post positive growth. And, if you’ve been wondering why Acer Chairman Stan Shih keeps popping up to call Apple products mutant viruses, his company’s unit volume crashed, falling more than 40 percent. Quoting Gartner [...] |
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| Shakespeare: ‘The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers’ Posted: 17 Aug 2011 12:40 PM PDT 
Categories: TECH.BLORGE The rest of the planet has moved on, but lawyers in Korea have foisted a class action lawsuit involving tens of thousands of smartphone users on the courts, seeking tens of millions of dollars for “mental suffering.” Why for that? Because no actual damages can be demonstrated. Associated Press (MSNBC) reports that lawyers in Korea [...] |
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| Microsoft’s Greninger builds nuclear reactor with students Posted: 17 Aug 2011 10:20 AM PDT 
Categories: VISTA.BLORGE Most garages are used to store junk and occasionally a car or two. Some may have workshops and a few have led to great inventions. Bill Gates started Microsoft in a garage. Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak started Apple in a garage. Now a Microsoft project manager has built a nuclear reactor in a garage [...] |
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| Shakespeare: “The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers” Posted: 17 Aug 2011 10:08 AM PDT 
Categories: TECH.BLORGE The rest of the planet has moved on, but lawyers in Korea have foisted a class action lawsuit involving tens of thousands of smartphone users on the courts, seeking tens of millions of dollars for “mental suffering.” Why for that? Because no actual damages can be demonstrated. Associated Press (MSNBC) reports that lawyers in Korea [...] |
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| Facebook group gets creator four years behind bars Posted: 17 Aug 2011 05:40 AM PDT 
Categories: TECH.BLORGE When people invite me to join stupid groups on Facebook, I often wish they’d go away. Now a man who started a group will be going away — to prison — for four years. Jordan Blackshaw aged 20 (pictured left) and Perry Sutcliffe-Keenan aged 22 have both been sentenced to four years for their involvement [...] |
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