| Apple takes 52% of overall cellphone profits Posted: 06 Nov 2011 11:00 PM PST 
Categories: TECH.BLORGE With dumb phones nearly gone from the market and feature phones fading fast, Cupertino’s grabbing a growing share of overall industry profits. News? It’s just another data point that proves a maxim you should keep in mind every time you read stellar unit volume numbers from the Android crowd. What does Apple’s 4.2 percent share [...] |
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| Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 black market prompts real heist Posted: 06 Nov 2011 10:20 PM PST 
Categories: GAMER.BLORGE While the rivalry between Battlefield 3 and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 has been entertaining, the craziness around the latter game really puts things in perspective as to which titles is the dominant one. Earlier this week, news of an eBay auction around an early copy of Modern Warfare 3 raised some eyebrows as [...] |
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| Kevin Butler honors real PSN gamers in a viral marketing campaign Posted: 06 Nov 2011 10:20 PM PST 
Categories: GAMER.BLORGE It seems like Kevin Butler, VP of everything related to PlayStation, has been very busy with the new Long, Live, Play initiative. KB stars in four new videos giving a shout out to several real PSN gamers. As part of Sony's new Long, Live, Play campaign, KB stars in four new videos honoring PSN gamers [...] |
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| ‘Lost’ Jobs’ interviews: One on PBS, second coming to theaters Posted: 06 Nov 2011 08:40 PM PST 
Categories: MAC.BLORGE Honestly, I’m a fan and I’m starting getting burned out on Steve Jobs interviews and documentaries. Nevertheless, for those with the stomach for still more of the most brilliant jerk, hero, bully, genius… whatever of our age, there are several full measures more to be had. Step inside to find out where to watch three… [...] |
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| Amazon Kindle Lending Library line-up Posted: 06 Nov 2011 08:40 PM PST 
Categories: TECH.BLORGE Kindle Owners’ Lending Library. Whoever heard of such a thing. It may be small now but it’s probably the start of an inevitable future. The Amazon Kindle Lending Library is now open for business. At least for those in the U.S. with Kindles and Amazon Prime subscriptions. But is the line-up on offer any good? [...] |
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| Canceled Courier shows the problem with Microsoft Posted: 06 Nov 2011 04:00 PM PST 
Categories: VISTA.BLORGE Microsoft canceled the Courier tablet, its rival to the iPad, in order not to compromise its core products. And that’s the problem with Microsoft in a nutshell. In September 2009 the existence of a new Microsoft tablet leaked onto the Web. March 2010 brought more details of a product shaping up nicely. But by May [...] |
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| Before Dropbox, there was Mirror World Posted: 06 Nov 2011 01:40 PM PST 
Categories: MAC.BLORGE Back in 2009, it’s now known, Steve Jobs wanted to buy Dropbox for a “nine-figure sum,” saying that their product was feature not the basis for a company. However, the founders turned him down, believing they were building a big and still to date profitable company. In case you missed it, iCloud already does much [...] |
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| Google calls Siri a serious threat Posted: 06 Nov 2011 01:40 PM PST 
Categories: TECH.BLORGE Google's Chairman called Siri a "competitive threat" to its search business. Of course, this comment was made to the U.S. Senate Antitrust Subcommittee but that doesn't mean that there isn't a grain of truth in that statement along with a lot of hyperbole. According to Apple Insider Eric Schmidt's comments didn't end there. He apparently [...] |
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