| Back peddle, spin: Lost iPhone prototype is real Posted: 02 Sep 2011 08:31 PM PDT 
Categories: iPHONETOUCH.BLORGE Yesterday, a San Francisco Police Department (SFPD) spokesman read us chapter and verse, ‘There are no records of any such thing.” Now, a certain Lt. Troy Dangerfield (probably gets no respect) is telling us that detectives accompanied two Apple security “officials” to a Bernal Heights home and someone searched it. This tale started out with [...] |
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| Tumblr notches up 10 billion posts, growing exponentially Posted: 02 Sep 2011 06:20 PM PDT 
Categories: TECH.BLORGE Tumblr is growing exponentially, notching up 10 billion posts across 28 million blogs. Facebook and Twitter better watch their backs. According to Royal Pingdom, Tumblr has added 21 million blogs to its line-up over the past year, rising from a total of just 7 million to 28 million in the past 12 months. Usage is [...] |
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| Going on a Lion hunt just got easier Posted: 02 Sep 2011 09:00 AM PDT 
Categories: MAC.BLORGE Most apps are Lion compatible. However, which ones also take advantage of the new features — Fullscreen, Resume, Versions, etc. — in Apple’s newest feline-flavored operating system release? Up until now, answering that question required a lot of clicks and not a little reading. Back before Mac OS X 10.7 shipped, I went on a [...] |
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| Android: What market dominance Posted: 02 Sep 2011 09:00 AM PDT 
Categories: TECH.BLORGE There’s a big disconnect between Android’s purported 500,000 monthly activations and how much profitable activity those people aren’t generating. Given Google’s mounting legal and acquisition bills related to Android, you’ve got to wonder why they’re in the business at all. What does Net Applications (NA) know? I have my doubts. However, much like DigiTimes, the [...] |
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| Amazon offers jobs to avoid sales taxes Posted: 02 Sep 2011 06:40 AM PDT 
Categories: TECH.BLORGE Amazon has offered to deliver the number one item on California’s wishlist: 7,000 shiny new jobs. But it comes at a price: a two-year freeze on attempts to collect sales taxes on purchases made by customers in the state. The California government has already passed a state law requiring sales tax on online sales to [...] |
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