| Microsoft “extorts profits” from another company for using Android again Posted: 18 Oct 2011 01:40 AM PDT 
Categories: VISTA.BLORGE Getting other hardware manufacturers to pay royalties for using Google's platforms has been a recurring theme with Microsoft. The company is literally making millions off Google's products without lifting a finger. Near the beginning of the month news broke of a patent deal where Samsung agreed to pay Microsoft royalty fees for every Android handset [...] |
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| Rumor: Soul Calibur V to feature Assassin’s Creed character Posted: 18 Oct 2011 01:00 AM PDT 
Categories: GAMER.BLORGE Soul Calibur V is set to release early next year and Namco Bandai is already beta testing the game's net code. This has led to some interesting news about the game to leak ahead of official announcement. It appears that Namco Bandai is following in footsteps of Mortal Kombat as Soul Calibur V will have [...] |
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| BlackBerry users bribed with free apps Posted: 17 Oct 2011 11:20 PM PDT 
Categories: TECH.BLORGE RIM knows it has messed up badly and really, really wants to say sorry. Will $100-worth of apps be a big enough bribe to stop users revolting? I’m not convinced. Last week saw BlackBerry users on four continents experienced a fatal outage which knocked all services offline for three days. If that wasn’t bad enough [...] |
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| Fix iOS 5 iPhone, iPad battery killers Posted: 17 Oct 2011 09:20 AM PDT 
Categories: iPHONETOUCH.BLORGE Some folks are noticing reduced battery performance after upgrading to iOS 5. If this means you, there are some easy things you can do to get some or all of that back. From networking settings to trimming back notifications or even disabling some services, you don’t have to take it lying down. Let’s start with [...] |
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| Sesame Street’s YouTube hit by porn attack Posted: 17 Oct 2011 07:00 AM PDT 
Categories: TECH.BLORGE Visitors to Sesame Street’s YouTube page were in for a shock yesterday. That wasn’t Elmo… and that wasn’t tickling. Yep, the world’s second-favorite kiddie show about a street (behind Pigeon Street) became host to some unconventional action. Let’s just say it was brought to you by the numbers 6 and 9, and the letters X, [...] |
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