| Charlie Miller: ‘I miss Steve Jobs’ Posted: 07 Nov 2011 10:20 PM PST 
Categories: iPHONETOUCH.BLORGE Call it a win-win play for the world’s best known Apple hacker? He submitted an iOS app that “behaves in a manner different from its intended use” and that can’t be bad for his cred. However, Miller says his intentions were and have always been pure, calling Cupertino’s action “rude.” Charlie Miller tweeted his removal [...] |
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| Microsoft enters cheap smartphone market with $50 Samsung Focus Flash Posted: 07 Nov 2011 10:20 PM PST 
Categories: VISTA.BLORGE Earlier today Microsoft unveiled a brand new phone, the Samsung Focus Flash during an event in New York City. Apparently this is all part of Microsoft's new direction to plunge into the "cheap" smartphone market. Google's Android has a head start on everyone with its platform available across a wide range of affordable devices. This [...] |
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| Barnes and Noble enters tablet market with Nook Tablet to rival iPad, Kindle Fire Posted: 07 Nov 2011 10:20 PM PST 
Categories: TECH.BLORGE Apple iPad, meet the Kindle Fire. Kindle Fire, meet the Nook Tablet. World, meet your new form factor of choice. The tablet market is growing, and will one day probably outrank the PC market. Competition is also heating up nicely, with affordable but decent Android-based tablets arriving to counter the march of the world-beating Apple [...] |
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| iPhone 4S still selling out Posted: 07 Nov 2011 08:00 PM PST 
Categories: iPHONETOUCH.BLORGE Apple’s “disappointing” 2011 smartphone update strikes again. After setting a new first weekend sales record (4-million-plus) and spawning Siri, which has become a cultural phenomenon, the iPhone 4S regularly sells out at retail, even as Apple rolls it out in more and more countries. Deutsche Bank’s Chris Whitmore has been loitering with intent at 30 [...] |
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| Best PS3 game of 2011 Posted: 07 Nov 2011 07:40 AM PST 
Categories: GAMER.BLORGE As we approach the end of the year it’s time to look at the best games on all platforms. Read on for Blorge’s nominations for the best PS3 game 2011. We’ve already had the top 5 Xbox 360 entries for 2011, and now we have the top 5 PS3 entries. There were an abundance of [...] |
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| Chinese firms agree to more censorship Posted: 07 Nov 2011 06:00 AM PST 
Categories: TECH.BLORGE Chinese Internet companies have agreed to crackdown on online political criticism, pornography, rumors and scams. In other words, most of the Internet. Just when you thought China’s nationwide firewall and harsh censorship meant the Internet couldn’t get any less free, senior executives from ten leading net firms have held a three-day “discussion” with the State [...] |
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