| OS X Lion, new models July Mac sales a big boost Posted: 22 Aug 2011 11:20 PM PDT 
Categories: MAC.BLORGE Bean counters, or at least those that estimate bean counts, are saying Mac sales jumped by more than a quarter last month and Apple looks set to deliver record quarterly unit volume numbers. The interesting twist is that the mothership didn’t ship its new OS and Mac models until the end of the month. The [...] |
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| EA aiming to kill off Call of Duty in 3 years – Co-Op gameplay Posted: 22 Aug 2011 10:40 PM PDT 
Categories: GAMER.BLORGE EA is seriously gunning for Activision's Call of Duty franchise. Things are heating up as the two companies have been slinging mud since E3 this year. According to IndustryGamers, Activision Publishing CEO Eric Hirshberg responded to EA's mudslinging by urging the publisher to stop for the benefit of the industry. EA's corporate communications man Jeff [...] |
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| Microsoft entices disgruntled webOS devs to switch to Windows Phone Posted: 22 Aug 2011 09:00 PM PDT 
Categories: VISTA.BLORGE The HP TouchPad is enjoying significant demand after the company dropped the price of the device to $99.99. With HP discontinuing the unit, there is a growing concern from the webOS development community. Microsoft is looking to take advantage of the situation as Brandon Watson, a Windows Phone evangelist for Microsoft, offered free support to [...] |
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| Microsoft Office 365 suffers outage – offers credit Posted: 22 Aug 2011 09:00 PM PDT 
Categories: VISTA.BLORGE Office 365, Microsoft's answer to Google Apps, suffered an outage this week that interrupted access to the service. According to reports Microsoft is working to rectify the issue by offering credit to compensate for the outage. Last Wednesday, many users were unable to access some of the services available in the Microsoft Office 365 suite [...] |
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| RIAA burns Jammie Thomas at the stake Posted: 22 Aug 2011 09:00 PM PDT 
Categories: TECH.BLORGE The RIAA isn’t going to let the one fish it has caught and kept in its net get away. Even if it means forcing her to spend the rest of her life fighting against it in the courts. Most people will have heard of Jammie Thomas at this stage, and most will know the story [...] |
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| Rumor: Lionhead working on Fable IV already for 2013 Posted: 22 Aug 2011 08:20 PM PDT 
Categories: GAMER.BLORGE Lionhead Studios has been very busy lately, cranking out two games one after another while working on project Milo. The word on the street is that the studio is already working on the next Fable game. Lionhead released Fable III last year and is currently working on Fable: The Journey, an on-rails Kinect game. The [...] |
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| More radical than radical Posted: 22 Aug 2011 11:40 AM PDT 
Categories: MAC.BLORGE So, introducing a touch based desktop operating system, killing the mouse and dropping the optical drive for internet only software distribution while introducing industry changing hardware designs at competition crushing prices isn’t radical enough? And, we haven’t even started talking about the iPad yet. From the vaguely enticing rumor department comes a tidbit from Macotakara [...] |
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| Lessons to learn from Touchpad fire sale Posted: 22 Aug 2011 09:20 AM PDT 
Categories: TECH.BLORGE HP has completely sold out of it TouchPad tablets, which isn’t a great surprise given they started as $99. But what lessons can the tech industry learn from the experience. $99 is a great price point — in this case Well, duh. Sell any form of tablet for under a hundred bucks and you’re going [...] |
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