| Facebook app (and Arrington investment) Shaker wins TechCrunch Disrupt 2011 Posted: 15 Sep 2011 09:20 PM PDT 
Categories: TECH.BLORGE A Facebook app called Shaker, which was seemingly no-one’s first choice, has won TechCrunch Disrupt 2011. And it just so happens Michael Arrington is an investor. Spooky. 31 startups vied for the title of TechCrunch Disrupt 2011 winner, whittled down to seven, and eventually a runner-up and winner. In second place was Prism Skylabs, which [...] |
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| Adobe Flash: Another nail in the coffin Posted: 15 Sep 2011 04:40 PM PDT 
Categories: TECH.BLORGE If you’re considering coding a website using Adobe’s malodorous multimedia middleware, unless you want to do it again very soon, think again. When Microsoft ships Windows 8 in 2012, about 365 days from now, one of the two browsers on offer won’t support plugins of any kind and that includes Adobe’s Flash. Quoting executive in [...] |
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| Apple to goose MacBook Pro specs Posted: 15 Sep 2011 02:20 PM PDT 
Categories: MAC.BLORGE From 2007 through 2010, the mothership gave us new iPhones in the June/July timeframe. This year we’ve gotten none to date, but one is expected sometime next month. Likewise, in most years, Apple will update its MacBook Pro once, but there are exceptions to this rule of thumb and we might be getting one of [...] |
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| Ballmer promises jam tomorrow for Windows Phone 7 Posted: 15 Sep 2011 09:45 AM PDT 
Categories: MOBILE.BLORGE Steve Ballmer says everything is going just dandy with Windows Phone. Except, that is, for sales. Speaking to financial analysts he admitted that “We haven’t sold quite as many as I would have liked in the first year.” Well that’s an understatement. Not only is Microsoft a very distant fifth place in terms of sales [...] |
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| UK officials slap down Samsung Posted: 15 Sep 2011 09:39 AM PDT 
Categories: iPHONETOUCH.BLORGE The world’s slimmest smartphone is still the iPhone 4 and what exactly does Samsung have to do catch a break from a judge or any other government official? Whatever the case, it’s Apple’s world and the rest of us just pay royalties to live in it and ain’t nothing changing that. Advertising. Samsung has been [...] |
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| Apple removes ‘Jew or not Jew’ app Posted: 15 Sep 2011 07:20 AM PDT 
Categories: TECH.BLORGE Apple has withdrawn an iPhone application that allows users to check whether a public figure is Jewish. But it’s only pulled it in France, and it’s only because of legal concerns. The move followed protests by several groups, including Jewish representatives and anti-racism campaigners. The withdrawal of “Juif ou pas Juif” is because of a [...] |
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