| Xbox Next launching Christmas 2013 Posted: 20 Oct 2011 11:00 PM PDT 
Categories: GAMER.BLORGE Hands up who wants a new Xbox console… a little more patience may be rewarded, with a Christmas 2013 release scheduled for Xbox Next. One ever-present in the games industry is speculation and rumormongering about the next generation of hardware. It seems that within months of a new console launching, gamers are keen on discussing [...] |
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| Jobs: I will destroy Android if it takes my last breath Posted: 20 Oct 2011 09:20 PM PDT 
Categories: iPHONETOUCH.BLORGE That’s not the exact quote, but it’s unequivocally what Steve Jobs meant. Think you know the Apple CEO? Time to think different. Walter Isaacson’s biography doesn’t officially ship until Monday, October 24, but early copies have leaked and the quotes, the incendiary kind, are already lighting up the web. Associated Press (Yahoo) has laid hands [...] |
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| Siri for Android – Iris – coded in 8 hours Posted: 20 Oct 2011 09:20 PM PDT 
Categories: TECH.BLORGE Who needs an overly-expensive iPhone 4S with Siri when you can get an affordable Android handset and download Iris for free? Apple sure knows how to change the game, and it did so when it put Siri front and center on the new iPhone 4S. Leaving Android users looking on with a certain amount of [...] |
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| Microsoft: second gen Kinect games incoming Posted: 20 Oct 2011 08:40 PM PDT 
Categories: GAMER.BLORGE Microsoft had a successful peripheral launch with the Kinect last holiday. While the sales numbers are impressive, the games have been lackluster besides a handful of titles. As reported in March, Microsoft announced that the company sold over 10 million Kinect devices, making it one of the fastest selling devices at the company. This beats [...] |
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| Harrison Ford describes playing Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception Posted: 20 Oct 2011 08:40 PM PDT 
Categories: GAMER.BLORGE Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception is releasing November 1st and Sony is gearing up to air some awesome trailers for the game. In one trailer, famed action adventure movie star Harrison Ford gets his hands on the game and provides his thoughts. There is no denying that the spirit of the action adventure genre has best [...] |
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| Steve Jobs and the cost of delaying treatment Posted: 20 Oct 2011 02:20 PM PDT 
Categories: MAC.BLORGE Who would have ever believed the Apple CEO’s life could be cited as a cautionary tale? Thereupon, what’s the difference between life and death or maybe a few more years of life? In Steve Jobs case, it just might have been the nine months he delayed having treatment, seeking instead “alternative” treatments including diet and [...] |
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| Cheaper chips could mean longer juice Posted: 20 Oct 2011 02:00 PM PDT 
Categories: MOBILE.BLORGE ARM, the major producer of processors for mobile devices, says its latest model could lead to five times longer battery life. It’s also predicting the Cortex A7 will contribute to a $100 drop in smartphone prices. The key to the new chip, which already has the backing of more than a dozen companies including LG, [...] |
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| Radar system can see through walls Posted: 20 Oct 2011 09:40 AM PDT 
Categories: TECH.BLORGE X-ray specs that allow you to see under the clothes of a ravishing beauty remain a fiction from the back pages of gentlemen’s literature. But MIT researchers have found a way to “see” past a solid wall. The team have come up with a new twist on radar, which works by bouncing radio waves off [...] |
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| ‘Sometimes you’re lucky,’ says Ballmer and he’s right Posted: 20 Oct 2011 09:40 AM PDT 
Categories: TECH.BLORGE Always quotable and controversial, the Microsoft CEO set tongues wagging by saying his company was lucky Yahoo hadn’t agreed to its price back in 2008. Ouch, kind of sucks to be the once dominant search (and a lot of whatever) company. The thing is, if you go beyond the soundbite, Ballmer’s being perfectly sensible. “Sometimes [...] |
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