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• Microsoft: Biggest sales week in Xbox history on Black Friday
• Microsoft rolling out carpet for Xbox 360 streaming TV service
• Official TED iPhone app ships
• Senator kills mall cellphone tracking plan
• RIM opens up to Android/iOS: Takeover or surrender?

Microsoft: Biggest sales week in Xbox history on Black Friday Posted: 29 Nov 2011 09:00 PM PST Categories: GAMER.BLORGE Earlier today Microsoft announced that the Xbox 360 saw its biggest sales week during Black Friday in the US. This is big [...] Related posts: Microsoft: Xbox 360 had its “biggest sales week of the year” Sony sold 440k PS3s during Black Friday week How the Xbox 360 beat the PS3 on Black Friday (Read more...)

Microsoft rolling out carpet for Xbox 360 streaming TV service Posted: 29 Nov 2011 09:00 PM PST Categories: GAMER.BLORGE Microsoft announced that the company would be rolling out streaming TV service this holiday on the [...] Related posts: Rumors are true: Xbox 360 streaming TV partners confirmed Rumor: Microsoft in talks with Comcast and Verizon over Xbox Live TV Microsoft Xbox TV – will users pay to watch a service they already pay for? (Read more...)

Official TED iPhone app ships Posted: 29 Nov 2011 07:20 PM PST Categories: iPHONETOUCH.BLORGE Whereas some folks watch sitcoms and talk shows, I prefer scifi and TED. Happily, enough I’ve got a wife that has similar tastes. However, she carries an iPhone and, although there was a “compatible” app, the TED experience on that 4.5-inch display, crystal clear though it is, was less than optimal let alone [...] Related [...] (Read more...)

Senator kills mall cellphone tracking plan Posted: 29 Nov 2011 05:00 PM PST Categories: TECH.BLORGE While most people happily offer up personal information to websites and social networks, they’re less willing to do so offline. Which is bad news for shopping malls. Last week it was discovered that two malls in the U.S. would be [...] Related posts: Malls track your movements by your cell phone signal Cell phone tracking [...] (Read more...)

RIM opens up to Android/iOS: Takeover or surrender? Posted: 29 Nov 2011 02:00 PM PST Categories: MOBILE.BLORGE Research in Motion is to make some of its security features available for Android and iPhone devices. It’s being seen both as an attempt to cash in on the wider smartphone market and an admission that it can’t rely on its own [...] (Read more...)

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• Rating the Black Friday/Cyber Monday scams
• Square Enix: Final Fantasy VII will likely never get remade
• Jobs’ family to get along fine without selling stock
• FAA: Turn off all electronic devices, or not
• Facebook Pages offer new twist on domain name row

Rating the Black Friday/Cyber Monday scams Posted: 29 Nov 2011 05:20 AM PST Categories: TECH.BLORGE Malware distributors who try to trick people using topical subjects are, of course, the scum of the earth. But that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t acknowledge that some of them are more skilful than others. Take, for example, two scams that have [...] Related posts: Black Friday online sales – Cyber Monday comes early Microsoft warns [...] (Read more...)

Square Enix: Final Fantasy VII will likely never get remade Posted: 29 Nov 2011 12:00 AM PST Categories: GAMER.BLORGE In a recent interview with the man behind the Final Fantasy series, Yoshinori Kitase, he revealed some insight into the studio's development process. He [...] Related posts: Square Enix to explore possibility of Final Fantasy VII remake Square Enix: No Final Fantasy XIII DLC Square Enix: Final Fantasy XIV not on Xbox 360 due to [...] (Read more...)

Jobs’ family to get along fine without selling stock Posted: 28 Nov 2011 10:20 PM PST Categories: MAC.BLORGE Recently, financial advisors have fallen from the sky to proclaim Lauren Powell Jobs should sell many if not all of the shares Steve Jobs left his family in order to minimize any payable taxes. However, there’s more to life than avoiding taxes and clear value in holding onto to those AAPL an DIS [...] Related [...] (Read more...)

FAA: Turn off all electronic devices, or not Posted: 28 Nov 2011 10:40 AM PST Categories: TECH.BLORGE If you fly, then you know that everyone is required to turn off all electronic devices before take off or else. However, repeated tests over the course of decades haven’t found any evidence that using a cellphone, tablet, PDA or reader during take off, or landing, causes any problems. The New York [...] Related posts: [...] (Read more...)

Facebook Pages offer new twist on domain name row Posted: 28 Nov 2011 06:00 AM PST Categories: TECH.BLORGE It’s often joked that Facebook is trying to replace the world wide web itself. That joke’s just got a little closer to the bone with the launch of legal action over the rights to operate a particular Facebook page. The case [...] Related posts: Facebook to offer local advertising Facebook Friendship Pages kinda creepy European [...] (Read more...)

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• How cool is WebGL? Check out this demo
• Black Friday in the US: violence over video game deals
• Rumor: Sony working on PS3 Smash Bros. fighter game
• Learn iOS development for free
• Would you heat your home with a data furnace?

How cool is WebGL? Check out this demo Posted: 27 Nov 2011 11:00 PM PST Categories: MAC.BLORGE In case you haven’t heard, Flash may very soon be dead. Adobe has said they won’t develop new mobile versions of their malignant multimedia middleware and the rest of the planet is moving quickly to port their existing web apps, video and animations to the nascent HTML5 standard. WebGL (Web-based Graphics Library) is [...] Related [...] (Read more...)

Black Friday in the US: violence over video game deals Posted: 27 Nov 2011 10:20 PM PST Categories: GAMER.BLORGE Black Friday is the biggest shopping day in the US and takes place right after spending the day with the relatives during [...] Related posts: PS3: Black Friday bundle deals – best value Xbox 360 Black Friday bundle deals – best value Sony sold 440k PS3s during Black Friday week (Read more...)

Rumor: Sony working on PS3 Smash Bros. fighter game Posted: 27 Nov 2011 10:20 PM PST Categories: GAMER.BLORGE There have been rumors doing the rounds across the Web around a secret new project Sony is cooking up. Apparently, the secret game is [...] Related posts: NPD March data – Xbox 360 beats PS3 – Wii and DS smash competition Batman: Arkham City smash previous sales – 4.6 million sold New Super Mario Bros. [...] (Read more...)

Learn iOS development for free Posted: 27 Nov 2011 08:40 PM PST Categories: iPHONETOUCH.BLORGE Barriers to entry matter. Similarly, endorsements, especially from A-list universities, make a difference, as well. Combine the two and developers have a big incentive to chose the platform that, happily enough, also pays better than the competition. Pop quiz — name the top five high-tech universities? No matter who’s making the list, Stanford [...] Related [...] (Read more...)

Would you heat your home with a data furnace? Posted: 27 Nov 2011 04:00 PM PST Categories: TECH.BLORGE Data centers give off heat, a lot of it.  At least half the [...] Related posts: Google taking data centers to the sea, files patents TEG could turn engine heat into energy Despite slump, Yahoo! to open new data and call centers (Read more...)

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