| Mobile malware finds a home Posted: 24 Aug 2011 03:20 AM PDT 
Categories: TECH.BLORGE What do you want in a smartphone? For many people, “is a phone, does that touch thing and can play Angry Birds” pretty much covers it. If the salesperson adds “free” or “buy one, get one free” to the pitch and the customer’s walking out the door with a bag. Thereupon, pick a blog, any [...] |
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| Sprint’s salvation at hand, unlimited data soon to die Posted: 23 Aug 2011 10:25 PM PDT 
Categories: iPHONETOUCH.BLORGE We’ve seen this movie before, but the back story is very, very different this time around. Back then AT&T was the one and only iPhone carrier in the US. Now, Verizon’s got it and Ma Bell would pay Apple to get the iPhone on Sprint, anything to get federal regulators to approve their acquisition of [...] |
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| Rumor: Nintendo readying 3DS with dual analog sticks Posted: 23 Aug 2011 10:00 PM PDT 
Categories: GAMER.BLORGE Nintendo is planning something big for the 3DS and it could change its handheld strategy. According to reports the company may be cooking up a 3DS that may go head-to-head with the Vita from a gameplay perspective. By all accounts the 3DS is a failure in sales and even the launch lineup. Nintendo has radically [...] |
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| Sony making Playstation Home less crap Posted: 23 Aug 2011 07:40 PM PDT 
Categories: GAMER.BLORGE Sony has big plans for Playstation Home. Plans that should make Home a little less crap than it currently is. Fingers crossed. OK, so calling Home crap may be a little unfair. It’s not crap, it’s just not all that good either. I enter it every now and again to see what’s changed, to watch [...] |
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| Facebook and Twitter survive the Google Plus armageddon, for the time being Posted: 23 Aug 2011 03:35 PM PDT 
Categories: TECH.BLORGE So far the potential giant that is Google Plus hasn’t knocked either of the leading social networks off course. Even a little. But it is, of course, early days. The end of June saw Google launch its latest foray into the world of social networking. Buzz and Wave hadn’t worked, so Google went back to [...] |
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| Did the earth move for you? East Coast quake disrupts cell service Posted: 23 Aug 2011 01:15 PM PDT 
Categories: TECH.BLORGE People all along the Eastern Seaboard, from North Carolina to Maine, felt it. Trains were halted and cell service was disrupted. However, as has become the norm, social networking rode to the rescue — how else were they going to share their OMGs? New York Times reports that a 5.9 earthquake, centered near Mineral, VA [...] |
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| Gizmodo off the hook? Not quite yet Posted: 23 Aug 2011 11:00 AM PDT 
Categories: TECH.BLORGE Prosecutors in the 2010′s case of the stolen prototype iPhone have chosen not to pursue criminal charges against Gawker Media’s Gizmodo. However, the unsavory blog publisher and its eminence sleaze founder, Nick Denton, could nevertheless end up in court, facing Apple’s legal wrath. A couple weeks back, Blorge brought you the news that Gizmodo wouldn’t [...] |
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| Android dominant in US, but older handsets still selling well Posted: 23 Aug 2011 10:54 AM PDT 
Categories: MOBILE.BLORGE Buy a smartphone in the US and more likely than not, its an Android. But consumers aren’t necessarily swayed by the latest handsets. Earlier this month we noted figures estimating a 48 percent market share for Android smartphones worldwide. Newly-published figures for the US market alone show the system just edging into majority status with [...] |
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| How to get extra credit at Rank My Hack Posted: 23 Aug 2011 06:20 AM PDT 
Categories: TECH.BLORGE A new website aims to allow hackers to compete in a ranking system. But here at Blorge we think there should be a few bonus points on offer. RankMyHack isn’t a Hot or Not style site to compare the physical attractiveness of the hackers. Indeed, the whole point is that the site isn’t based on [...] |
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