| Google Plus is dying a quick death Posted: 10 Oct 2011 11:20 PM PDT 
Categories: TECH.BLORGE Google Plus is dying a quick death, as people signed up to see what all the fuss was about before hastily retreating to the warm bosom of Facebook. Google’s fledgling social network, Google Plus, was invite-only for weeks, with buzz building as people on the outside wanted to be welcomed in in order to have [...] |
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| Microsoft marketing manager confirms the death of the Zune Posted: 10 Oct 2011 09:00 PM PDT 
Categories: VISTA.BLORGE Its been a crazy week with all kinds of mishaps on Microsoft's official site regarding the Zune. Earlier reports seemed to indicate that Microsoft was killing off the Zune, which was promptly refuted shortly after by Microsoft. As reported last week, a notice popped up on the Zune's official support site that indicated that Microsoft [...] |
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| BioWare confirms co-op multiplayer for Mass Effect 3 Posted: 10 Oct 2011 08:20 PM PDT 
Categories: GAMER.BLORGE Earlier today Bioware officially confirmed the existence of a multiplayer mode for Mass Effect 3. Rumors of such a mode have been doing the rounds for months now. Rumors of a multiplayer mode surfaced back in June, when Eurogamer reported that a source indicated that BioWare was working on a four player online co-op mode [...] |
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| Apple has chip engineers, oodles of them Posted: 10 Oct 2011 06:40 PM PDT 
Categories: MAC.BLORGE Outside of retail, about 20,000 people work for the mothership. Thereupon, 5 percent of those are engineers designing the chips used in the company’s world beating smartphones and tablets. That goes a long way to explaining why the iPhone, iPod touch and iPad outperform and outlast the competition while costing less to produce. TechCrunch, which [...] |
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| Really? Netflix backtracks on Qwikster spin off Posted: 10 Oct 2011 11:40 AM PDT 
Categories: TECH.BLORGE Anyone who’s watched old Tom & Jerry or Bugs Bunny cartoons have seen this scenario play out — a snare drum pounds out some poor’s flailing footfalls as he carries a stake of dishes or a baby or whatever to toward a staircase and inevitable doom. Such is the spectacle that Reed Hastings and Netflix [...] |
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| Chatroulette plus Facebook = Airtime? Posted: 10 Oct 2011 07:00 AM PDT 
Categories: TECH.BLORGE Once upon a time, anyone using the expression “Supyo” would have got a clip round the ear. Now it can get you $8.3 million. That’s how much a startup company with that codename has raised from a Who’s Who? of the celebrity and tech worlds, a group including Google’s Marissa Mayer, TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington, [...] |
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