| Resistance 3 vs. Gears of War 3: story trailer media blowout Posted: 31 Aug 2011 12:20 AM PDT 
Categories: GAMER.BLORGE September is almost here and that means one thing – the official holiday season is about to kick off with two titan franchises facing off during the month. From a sales perspective the Resistance franchise, while highly successful, is still the underdog when compared to the Gears of War series. These two franchises have a [...] |
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| Apple fanboy goes after Windows 8 Explorer ribbon, misses the point Posted: 30 Aug 2011 10:40 PM PDT 
Categories: VISTA.BLORGE Oh dear. The normally level-headed MG Siegler has completely missed the point in his latest quest to make Microsoft look stupid compared to Apple. The big, smelly fanboy. Oh to be an Apple fanboy. What a joy to be so sure of one company, all its products, and even its staff. To the point that [...] |
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| Top 10 best video game characters of all time Posted: 30 Aug 2011 07:40 PM PDT 
Categories: GAMER.BLORGE What are the best video game characters of all time? Read on to find out… Video game characters have the ability to pull you in, offering an emotional connection which makes you actually care what happens in the game. But only some manage to do this in any real sense. Others, meanwhile, are memorable for [...] |
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| $25 Raspberry Pi plays Quake III Posted: 30 Aug 2011 06:00 PM PDT 
Categories: TECH.BLORGE Video games may not ever revolutionize the world, but a demonstration of one being played on an ultra-cheap, Linux computer may help do so. In May David Braben, a Cambridge-based games designer and entrepreneur, unveiled the Raspberry Pi. This was and still a Linux-based computer the size of a credit card which will cost just [...] |
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| Cry havoc! HTML5 continues to surge Posted: 30 Aug 2011 05:54 PM PDT 
Categories: TECH.BLORGE One free and open internet standard to rule all — these are exciting times. Yeah, we’ve been here before and it’s likely that Microsoft, Adobe, Google, Apple, etc. will carve out their own fiefdoms — there’s profit in difference — engendering continued conflict and strife. But at least it won’t be Flash. Back in July, [...] |
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| Work and personal smartphones merge into one handset Posted: 30 Aug 2011 12:20 PM PDT 
Categories: MOBILE.BLORGE A company that specializes in hardware virtualization on computers is moving into the smartphone market. VMware says the idea is to effectively build a company smartphone inside an employee’s personal handset. When estimates of the number of mobile phones in use in certain countries are published, you’ll sometimes get the seemingly-baffling statistics that handsets outnumber [...] |
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| Apple’s iPad success comes at a price Posted: 30 Aug 2011 11:00 AM PDT 
Categories: MAC.BLORGE Hewlett-Packard’s webOS-based TouchPad is dead already. Motorola, even after repeated price cuts, has yet to sell its millionth Xoom. Samsung’s had some limited success in the market, but has been battered in the courtroom, while Microsoft and its partners won’t deliver an iPad competitor until next year. Golly gosh gee whiz all of these failures [...] |
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| What iPhone? Sprint schedules Oct 7 media event Posted: 30 Aug 2011 08:40 AM PDT 
Categories: iPHONETOUCH.BLORGE Verizon is generally not so fast and AT&T is renowned for spotty, sometimes unreliable service. Thereupon, rumors that the number three carrier here in the US will be getting the iPhone come Fall have lots of people talking. That is, pretty much everyone except the folks working in Sprint’s retail outlets. Last week we noted [...] |
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| ISP helps parents go to war with kids; doomed to fail Posted: 30 Aug 2011 06:20 AM PDT 
Categories: TECH.BLORGE An internet service provider is offering tools to help parents stop children using Facebook when they are meant to be doing homework. The words chocolate and fireguard come to mind. The new service is offered by British firm TalkTalk. Unlike previous tactics that involved ISPs offering web filtering software, the company is launching blocking on [...] |
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