| Apple’s fudging the iPhone Posted: 04 Oct 2011 10:40 PM PDT 
Categories: iPHONETOUCH.BLORGE One of the first things Steve Jobs did when returned to the company he cofounded was he got rid of a lot of superfluous products. Today, Apple doubled down on “not much to announce” by not killing the iPhone 3GS. And, although we weren’t expecting much vis-a-vis the iPod, we got almost nothing — all [...] |
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| iPhone 4S Siri is a glimpse into the future Posted: 04 Oct 2011 08:20 PM PDT 
Categories: TECH.BLORGE The iPhone 4S is OK, the lack of appearance by the iPhone 5 a shock. But Siri just about managed to save the day. Hands up if you weren’t bitterly disappointed by Apple’s latest event… just as I expected, everyone was disappointed. More because of what was missing rather than by what was on show. [...] |
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| Chrome coming to Android Posted: 04 Oct 2011 09:37 AM PDT 
Categories: MOBILE.BLORGE Google looks to be planning to bring its Chrome browser to mobile devices. It should be a short-term boost for users, though in the long-term it could raise competition issues. All that’s known for certain at the moment is from a piece of code on the blog for coding for Chromium, the open source system [...] |
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| Amanda Knox verdict leads to major online news fail Posted: 04 Oct 2011 06:20 AM PDT 
Categories: TECH.BLORGE Last night Amanda Knox and less-American, less-pretty and thus less-mentioned Raffaele Sollecito were cleared on appeal of murdering Meredith Kercher. Unfortunately the race to be first in the world of online new led to a major blunder and uncovered some uncomfortable truths for journalism. The trial in fact involved two convictions for Knox: the high-profile [...] |
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