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• Best Xbox360 game 2011
• Siri coming to iPhone 4, iPod touch soon
• MacBook Air going large
• Kodak puts its digital patents up for sale
• 3D maps coming to the iPhone

Best Xbox360 game 2011 Posted: 30 Oct 2011 11:20 PM PDT Categories: GAMER.BLORGE With the end of the year rapidly approaching us, its that time again to reflect back on the many titles that have released this year and determine which game deserves that coveted best game of the year title. Over the next few weeks we will be putting up a list of nominees and our top [...] (Read more...)

Siri coming to iPhone 4, iPod touch soon Posted: 30 Oct 2011 09:40 PM PDT Categories: iPHONETOUCH.BLORGE Root your fourth generation Apple smartphone or media player and get the world’s most advanced digital assistant. Well, not quite yet, but the groundwork has been done and it shouldn’t be too long now. So, why buy a new iPhone 4S when last year’s model costs $100 less and gets you 90 percent of the [...] (Read more...)

MacBook Air going large Posted: 30 Oct 2011 09:40 PM PDT Categories: MAC.BLORGE What’s the best antidote to a minor and generally unsatisfying refresh? What we really, really want and in fact need is a full on, stem to stern makeover, which seems to be in the cards. But are you ready to go without spinning platters for storage? A report out of Japan from the increasingly quoted [...] (Read more...)

Kodak puts its digital patents up for sale Posted: 30 Oct 2011 07:20 PM PDT Categories: TECH.BLORGE Kodak is putting it's digital patents up for sale.  That is a considerable portfolio considering that Kodak actually invented the first digital camera in 1975.  Since then the company has been hard at work developing yet more digital technology that is used in cameras, cell phones and tablets. PhysOrg reports that Kodak is selling those [...] (Read more...)

3D maps coming to the iPhone Posted: 30 Oct 2011 10:00 AM PDT Categories: iPHONETOUCH.BLORGE Apple’s dumping Google (and has been for some years now). Eventually some variation on that theme will occur with the most likely candidate being mapping — boy, oh boy, the iPhone needs a new Maps app. The Cupertino kids have taken another step down that road as we learned they’ve purchased yet another company for [...] (Read more...)

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• iOS Halloween Sale: Resident Evil 4 and Civilization Revolution
• Top 10 Steve Jobs online tributes
• Steve Jobs dismissive of Microsoft, Bill Gates, and Steve Ballmer in biography
• How videogame reviews work, 8/10 times
• iOS 5: Turn on Safari’s porn mode
• Nokia will expansively market Windows phones overseas

iOS Halloween Sale: Resident Evil 4 and Civilization Revolution Posted: 30 Oct 2011 12:00 AM PDT Categories: GAMER.BLORGE Mobile iOS gamers will be in for a treat as several publishers have marked down some amazing iPhone games for Halloween. Capcom, 2K and EA have slashed up to 85 percent on some popular titles on the app store. As part of a Halloween sale, Capcom is offering Resident Evil 4 on the app store [...] (Read more...)

Top 10 Steve Jobs online tributes Posted: 29 Oct 2011 08:00 PM PDT Categories: MAC.BLORGE The days pass since his Wednesday, October 5 death and still people around the continue to add their voices. Whereas luminaries from President Obama and Bill Gates to Walt Mossberg have all paid their respects, the most poignant tributes have come from ordinary people just wanting to say thanks for changing and making their lives [...] (Read more...)

Steve Jobs dismissive of Microsoft, Bill Gates, and Steve Ballmer in biography Posted: 29 Oct 2011 08:00 PM PDT Categories: VISTA.BLORGE In a roundabout way Microsoft was the making of Steve Jobs. So you’d think he’d have had kinder words to say about the company before he sadly shuffled off this mortal coil. The late Steve Jobs really wasn’t a fan of Microsoft, its founder and chairman Bill Gates, or its CEO Steve Ballmer. As passages [...] (Read more...)

How videogame reviews work, 8/10 times Posted: 29 Oct 2011 07:20 PM PDT Categories: GAMER.BLORGE Oh dear. When will gamers learn? Maybe they never will, but I live in hope. Videogame reviews aren’t an exact science and cannot therefore be considered wrong. So 8/10 for Uncharted 3 is perfectly reasonable. Why do people still put so much stock in reviews of videogames when there are so many other options open [...] (Read more...)

iOS 5: Turn on Safari’s porn mode Posted: 29 Oct 2011 05:40 PM PDT Categories: iPHONETOUCH.BLORGE You’ve got an ordinary job and live in an ordinary house with your ordinary family. Good stuff. To keep all of that going you probably don’t want anyone to know about your forays to the dark side to view “vegesexual lesbian lobster men” (or whatever you’re into). To keep anyone who knows how to access [...] (Read more...)

Nokia will expansively market Windows phones overseas Posted: 29 Oct 2011 10:40 AM PDT Categories: TECH.BLORGE Earlier this week a Blorge writer asked where was Nokia's marketing for its new Windows Phone 7 Lumina smartphones.  Well, Ron it's pretty impressive just not coming to the US anytime soon. In Ronald Carlson’s piece earlier this week, he asked,"for goodness sake, who's doing their marketing…"  Well, according to Ars Technica, apparently Nokia has [...] (Read more...)

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• iOS 5 adoption soars
• Enterprise should embrace HEROes
• Sony PS3 outselling the Xbox 360 by 1 million units in 2011 worldwide
• Samsung bests Apple in Smartphone sales
• EA sells 10 million copies of Battlefield 3 in four days
• Apple’s Siri to “replace TV remote”

iOS 5 adoption soars Posted: 28 Oct 2011 08:40 PM PDT Categories: iPHONETOUCH.BLORGE You get what you pay for and, when you buy an iPhone, three years or more of operating system upgrades is what you can count. However, are Apple’s mobile legions taking advantage of the latest update offer? Find out which iPhone, iPad and iPod touch users are taking the plunge. About a month after iOS [...] (Read more...)

Enterprise should embrace HEROes Posted: 28 Oct 2011 04:00 PM PDT Categories: MAC.BLORGE If you’re gonna flip flop, do it with gusto. Apparently, that’s the attitude taken by Forrester Research which has for years — credit for consistency — strongly advocated against Macs. Now, the enterprise consultant not only says Macs are good, they’re promoting digital diversity and have created an acronym to promote the concept. Back in [...] (Read more...)

Sony PS3 outselling the Xbox 360 by 1 million units in 2011 worldwide Posted: 28 Oct 2011 10:40 AM PDT Categories: GAMER.BLORGE The console race has been heating up and it appears that sales for Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo have been swinging back and forth every year. This year it appears that Sony is winning the race in two territories while Microsoft is taking the gold in one territory. In an interesting move, Nintendo has done a [...] (Read more...)

Samsung bests Apple in Smartphone sales Posted: 28 Oct 2011 09:00 AM PDT Categories: TECH.BLORGE Apple is no longer the number one company for smartphone sales, with Samsung having beaten the iPhone vendor into second place. You’re welcome to cry now, Apple fanboys. During the third quarter of 2011 Samsung shipped more handsets than Apple, by some margin. While Apple managed to sell around 17 million smartphones, Samsung sold almost [...] (Read more...)

EA sells 10 million copies of Battlefield 3 in four days Posted: 28 Oct 2011 08:20 AM PDT Categories: GAMER.BLORGE In a recent conference call, EA CEO John Riccitiello revealed some shocking numbers around the latest entry in the Battlefield series. According to the publisher the company has managed to move over 10 million units already. As reported by Gamasutra, Riccitiello revealed EA has managed to sell [shipped] 10 million copies of Battlefield 3 in [...] (Read more...)

Apple’s Siri to “replace TV remote” Posted: 28 Oct 2011 06:40 AM PDT Categories: TECH.BLORGE Steve Jobs definitely said the voice recognition feature in the latest iPhone will be the key to Apple making its own television sets. Or at least that’s what some are now assuming. Given the tech world’s treatment of Jobs as some sort of messiah, it’s not surprising that since his untimely passing, people have been [...] (Read more...)

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