| PSN game Closure preview and Uncharted 3 Collectors unboxing by Nolan North Posted: 25 Aug 2011 11:00 PM PDT 
Categories: GAMER.BLORGE Today on the PlayStation Blog, Sony revealed some interesting bits of news on the site. Nolan North performs an unboxing of the Uncharted 3 Collector's Edition and a preview is shown for a brand new mysterious PSN game. Nolan North, the voice actor for Nathan Drake in the Uncharted series performed an unboxing of the [...] |
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| Rumor: Microsoft planning to drop the Xbox 360 price? Posted: 25 Aug 2011 11:00 PM PDT 
Categories: GAMER.BLORGE A new sales promo at a major US retailer has sparked speculation of a potential price drop for the Xbox 360 Kinect bundle. With Sony just dropping the price of the PS3 to $250, its not unfathomable for Microsoft to follow. As reported by Joystiq, it appears that Walmart is advertising a $250 4GB Xbox [...] |
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| Is new Apple CEO Tim Cook the right man for the job? Posted: 25 Aug 2011 07:00 PM PDT 
Categories: TECH.BLORGE Apple and its future is now in the hands of one Tim Cook. But is this 50-year-old gay engineer and businessman from Alabama the right man for the job? Steve Jobs has been one hell of a CEO at Apple, taking the company from the brink of bankruptcy through to profitability and eventually being the [...] |
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| Smartphone sales to top a billion in 2015? Posted: 25 Aug 2011 01:20 PM PDT 
Categories: MOBILE.BLORGE If one analyst’s predictions are correct, 2015 will mark a double landmark for the smartphone industry. According to IHS’s Francis Sideco, not only will sales for the year top one billion handsets, but smartphones will outsell ordinary cellphones for the first time. It’s worth noting that even if this is true, that doesn’t necessarily mean [...] |
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| Jobs’ last day as CEO was full one Posted: 25 Aug 2011 09:40 AM PDT 
Categories: TECH.BLORGE You have your good days and your bad days. Whereas Jobs is said to have spent the last few weeks at home, yesterday he put in a full day at the office. In general, however, his condition hasn’t changed and, down time aside, will be more than around for the foreseeable future. Adam Satariano of [...] |
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| Jobs ‘is very much alive’ Posted: 25 Aug 2011 07:20 AM PDT 
Categories: MAC.BLORGE Everyone’s been busy writing Steve Jobs’ obituary, but a careful reading of yesterday’s news out of Cupertino reveals that the tech visionary isn’t going anywhere just yet. Mac.Blorge noted yesterday that Jobs has been named chairman of the board and, unless that’s now a ceremonial post, he’ll be around (and then some). Wall Mossberg is [...] |
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| Google fined $500 million over illegal drug dealing Posted: 25 Aug 2011 07:20 AM PDT 
Categories: TECH.BLORGE Google is to pay the US government $500 million as a penalty for carrying adverts for Canadian pharmaceutical firms in breach of US law. And it appears the company was scared of an even worse penalty. The settlement, announced by the US government, covers the fact that Google made money by taking ads placed by [...] |
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