| A call for more Jobs Posted: 13 Sep 2011 08:20 PM PDT 
Categories: TECH.BLORGE Bill Gates gets a lot of press for his philanthropic work, changing lives through charity. Steve Jobs gets credit for changing lives with highly personal products, little revolutions that you carry around in bag or pocket. The next revolution I’d like to see from the Apple chairman is how and where those products are made. [...] |
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| Twitter a twit over ‘Tweet’ trademark Posted: 13 Sep 2011 05:59 PM PDT 
Categories: TECH.BLORGE Twitter is being an absolute twit, as well as a bit of a twat, and a huge twonk, in its efforts to secure the Tweet trademark. Twitter is playing hardball with its alleged ownership of the term ‘Tweet’ for the status updates and messages sent on the micro-blogging service. But its efforts to claim the [...] |
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| Airport Express refresh iCloud launch Posted: 13 Sep 2011 01:20 PM PDT 
Categories: MAC.BLORGE New kit coming and who doesn’t like fresh gear? Recently, the mothership rolled updated Airport Extreme Base Station and Time Capsule hub, bringing full 450Mbps throughput — soon coming to Airport Express, too, before Apple’s much anticipated iCloud reveal. Apple’s latest iMac, Mac mini and MacBook Air are all compatible with the 450Mbps final 802.11n [...] |
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| Airline entertainment: bring your own screen Posted: 13 Sep 2011 11:40 AM PDT 
Categories: MOBILE.BLORGE A company that already offers in-flight Wi-Fi is to add both recorded and live television to its service. The idea looks to be to target airlines that don’t want the expense of fitting seat-back TVs to existing planes. The service comes from Row 44, which currently offers Wi-Fi on SouthWest plus Norway’s Air Shuttle line. [...] |
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| SkyNet is real and it comes in peace Posted: 13 Sep 2011 06:20 AM PDT 
Categories: TECH.BLORGE An international project aims to use people’s spare computing capacity to create a giant supercomputer. And if you’re thinking that sounds a little creepy, it might not help to know the project is named the SkyNet. Fortunately there’s yet to be any sign the network has military intentions, nor indeed has gained self-awareness. Instead its [...] |
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