| MC Hammer launches WIREDoo – good idea, terrible name, horribly engineered Posted: 20 Oct 2011 12:20 AM PDT 
Categories: TECH.BLORGE A search engine that does more than just deliver keyword driven results? Sounds good. It’s just a shame that name is so damn bad. MC Hammer, yes, he of U Can’t Touch This fame, unveiled a new search engine called WIREDoo at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco on Wednesday. Unlike most search engines, [...] |
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| Apple launches ‘Remembering Steve’ Posted: 19 Oct 2011 10:00 PM PDT 
Categories: TECH.BLORGE On October 5, 2011, Steve Jobs died after complications from a rare form of pancreatic cancer. Today, two weeks later, Apple launched ‘Remembering Steve’. The death of Steve Jobs came as a shock to most people, despite it being expected. It came six weeks after he stepped down as CEO of Apple, handing over the [...] |
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| Hungry, hungry cannibal: Apple doubles down on PCs Posted: 19 Oct 2011 07:40 PM PDT 
Categories: MAC.BLORGE What’s eating you? If you’re a Windows PC manufacturer, chances are the answer is Apple. Cupertino all but owns rapidly expanding tablet market, which is displacing PC sales, and is taking an ever growing share of the desktop market, having outgrown the industry for nearly six years. On Tueday, Apple announced that the Mac and [...] |
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| OmniTouch turns your body, your home, your car and even your friend into a touch screen Posted: 19 Oct 2011 05:20 PM PDT 
Categories: VISTA.BLORGE Researchers at Microsoft and Carnegie Mellon have developed a wearable technology that will turn just about any surface into a touch screen. That means that you can use any body part, home surface, car surface or consenting friend as a touch screen. Not bad. Except for looking dorky, it's a great idea. Anything or anyone [...] |
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| Ice Cream Sandwich: Slow as it ever was Posted: 19 Oct 2011 12:40 PM PDT 
Categories: iPHONETOUCH.BLORGE Features, shmeatures. When it comes to Android and devices that run it, features are just so many bullet points, a checklist of things that sort of, maybe, sometimes work — think voice recognition and glacial camera apps. Unfortunately, the Hong Kong “event” where it launched produced almost zero sizzle. Vlad Savov at This Is My [...] |
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| Let one thousand Baby Bells bloom Posted: 19 Oct 2011 10:20 AM PDT 
Categories: TECH.BLORGE One of the big factors that drove iPod to dominance and competitors to despair was the fact that you could and still can buy an Apple media player just about anywhere — Walmart, Amazon, Kmart… even vending machines in airports and department stores. Thereupon, selling the iPhone on (almost) every carrier known to man will [...] |
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