| No way to run a railroad or mobile platform Posted: 28 Oct 2011 02:00 AM PDT 
Categories: TECH.BLORGE What do find when you look at every Android phone released in the United States and then look at which ones have received operating system updates? You find a huge number of devices that aren’t running, and have no hope of getting, the latest version of Android — as in never. At least as far [...] |
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| iPhones are efficient, says Hesse Posted: 27 Oct 2011 11:40 PM PDT 
Categories: iPHONETOUCH.BLORGE Once upon a time, Apple smartphone users were known as data hogs — strike that notion from your mind. . Those days are done or at least that’s the tale being told by CEO of America’s neediest wireless carrier. Sprint has been hemorrhaging subscribers for years, but there is daylight at the end of the [...] |
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| Sony buys Ericsson mobile: more PlayStation brand phones on the way Posted: 27 Oct 2011 08:40 PM PDT 
Categories: GAMER.BLORGE The major breaking news from today is the official news that Sony would be buying out Ericsson's 50 percent share of its mobile division. This means that Sony would have full control to execute on its mobile strategy. As reported by the Financial Times, Sony CEO, Sir Howard Stringer took stage at a press event [...] |
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| Coldplay shuns Spotify, welcomes pirates Posted: 27 Oct 2011 04:40 PM PDT 
Categories: TECH.BLORGE Coldplay are the latest music act to decide that streaming services such as Spotify, Rdio, and Mog aren’t for them. Because they’re idiots. Not everyone welcomes new technology and new ways of doing things, and musicians and their record labels seem to have a particularly tough time of accepting the reality of the situation as [...] |
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| PBS to air ‘One last thing’ Jobs biopic Posted: 27 Oct 2011 02:20 PM PDT 
Categories: MAC.BLORGE On and on it goes, though I’m still eating up. Come next Wednesday America’s Public Broadcasting System will show what probably be the last major tribute to the erstwhile Apple CEO. The big reveal with this broadcast will be inclusion of video footage from Robert X. Cringely’s 1994 interview with Jobs. Step inside for the [...] |
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| Sony minus Ericsson equals magic, boss claims Posted: 27 Oct 2011 11:40 AM PDT 
Categories: MOBILE.BLORGE Sony has ended its cellphone partnership with Ericsson in a $1.5 billion buyout. According to Sony chief Howard Stringer, it’s “the beginning of something which I think is quite magical.” Ericsson is very much staying in business, concentrating on its expertise in telecommunications. The handset partnership between the two that began way back in 2001 [...] |
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| Netflix eats up a third of peak download data Posted: 27 Oct 2011 07:20 AM PDT 
Categories: TECH.BLORGE Netflix is now responsible for 27.6 percent of all data downloaded in the US and Canada over fixed line Internet connections. During peak evening periods that rises to just under a third. That not only makes Netflix the biggest data hog in North America, but it’s roughly double the data used by all standard web [...] |
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