| Apple under green attack yet again Posted: 01 Sep 2011 04:47 AM PDT 
Categories: TECH.BLORGE Apple has agreed to meet representatives of a Chinese environmental group to discuss allegations that the company’s suppliers in the country are falling short on green issues. The Institute of Public and Environmental Affairs has released a report with the stark title “Pollution Spreads Through Apple’s Supply Chain.” The report is a follow-up to previous [...] |
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| New Xbox 360 dashboard update not only for Kinect users Posted: 01 Sep 2011 02:00 AM PDT 
Categories: GAMER.BLORGE Microsoft is prepping its usual autumn dashboard update for the Xbox 360. When the update was first demonstrated it did receive a bit of flack for its focus solely on the Kinect. There really isn't anything as significant as the introduction of the avatars in the upcoming update but it does redesign the entire dashboard [...] |
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| DICE details Battlefield 3 co-op mode and beta for the PS3 Posted: 31 Aug 2011 11:40 PM PDT 
Categories: GAMER.BLORGE DICE product manager Tommy Rydling recently revealed some new details around the co-op mode in Battlefield 3. In addition he talks a little about the beta for the PS3. DICE has been working hard at bringing a unique experience in the co-op mode for Battlefield 3. According to a post on the PlayStation Blog, Rydling [...] |
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| Everybody’s eulogizing Jobs Posted: 31 Aug 2011 05:20 PM PDT 
Categories: MAC.BLORGE For the long-time Mac user, the recent plague of Steve Jobs and Apple retrospectives are both entertaining and a little disturbing. How? Well, Steve Jobs legacy is settling into a sort of orthodoxy, with not a little blinkered revisionism. Also, because the Apple chairman isn’t talking, the dominant narrative is that Jobs will soon pass [...] |
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| Steve Jobs is a nobody, in China at least Posted: 31 Aug 2011 05:20 PM PDT 
Categories: TECH.BLORGE Steve Jobs led Apple from near total collapse to the top of the tech pile. But he’s still a nobody. There was I thinking that knowledge of Steve Jobs’ resignation as CEO of Apple would have spread around the world by now. But it seems in China at least, some people don’t even know who [...] |
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| How to save a PDF directly to iBooks Posted: 31 Aug 2011 05:11 PM PDT 
Categories: iPHONETOUCH.BLORGE How do you use your iPhone, iPod touch and/or iPad? One of coolest, and unheralded, uses I’ve found is putting manuals on my idevices, which saves on printing, keeps ‘em handy and backed up. Here’s how to take a PDF manual or whatever and save to iBooks. So, you brought an Ikea flatpack desk, chair, [...] |
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| Feds sue to block AT&T’s T-Mobile market grab Posted: 31 Aug 2011 10:20 AM PDT 
Categories: TECH.BLORGE Forgive my complete objectivity and clarity on this issue — yeah, baby! The Obama Administration’s Department of Justice has come out unambiguously against the proposed acquisition on the grounds that it will reduce choice, lead to higher prices and generally be bad be for old people, children and, well, everyone. New York Times reports that [...] |
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| Touchpad announcement doesn’t add up Posted: 31 Aug 2011 05:40 AM PDT 
Categories: TECH.BLORGE HP has announced it will make “one last run” of its Touchpad tablet devices in response to recent demand. But if you think you’ll be getting one for $99 you could be out of luck. In one of the least shocking consumer electronics stories of recent years, it turned out that when a well-known brand [...] |
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