| Steve Jobs is Time Person Of The Year? Posted: 10 Nov 2011 01:40 AM PST 
Categories: TECH.BLORGE Steve Jobs has been nominated at Time Person Of The Year. And he has to be a shoe-in for the title, surely. According to GeekWire, NBC Nightly News TV anchor Brian Williams has nominated the late Apple chairman and CEO Steve Jobs as Time Person Of The Year for 2011. The 2010 winner was Facebook [...] |
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| Microsoft sanctions $9 jailbreak Posted: 09 Nov 2011 11:20 PM PST 
Categories: VISTA.BLORGE While Apple is constantly updating it's software to make jailbreaking harder, Microsoft has sanctioned Chevron WP7's ability to jail break it's smartphone operating system. Of course for your $9 it is a limited jailbreak. Ars Technica reports that Microsoft's approach to jailbreaking is a middle ground between Apple's rigid control and Android's "free for all" [...] |
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| Apple mending frayed relations with MacBook buyers Posted: 09 Nov 2011 09:00 PM PST 
Categories: MAC.BLORGE This is ground that Apple’s covered before, having offered a MagSafe replacement program back in 2008. This time around some lawyers felt the need to go class action to get the same result, which gets them paid and user, well, a replacement program from Apple. Did I mention the lawyers get paid? Apple has announced [...] |
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| Spotify already showing its age and lack of teeth Posted: 09 Nov 2011 09:00 PM PST 
Categories: TECH.BLORGE How hip is Spotify? Their current VP of engineering is a former LimeWire VP of engineering and peer to peer is cool, right? Thereupon, I’m guessing the blush has come off the original launch bloom, which saw millions sign up and thousands pay. NPR is running a bit of fluff entitled How Spotify Works: Pay [...] |
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| The ‘whole internet’ dies as Adobe kills mobile Flash Posted: 09 Nov 2011 09:20 AM PST 
Categories: iPHONETOUCH.BLORGE What a truly satisfying moment. For many, many months, Adobe and the Android crowd have crowed that because the iPhone, iPod touch and iPad don’t support Flash the rest of us aren’t getting the “whole internet.” That lie and its performance, battery and security implications has finally been put down, euthanized and none too soon. [...] |
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| Adobe surrenders in Flash mobile war Posted: 09 Nov 2011 07:00 AM PST 
Categories: TECH.BLORGE Only weeks after his death, it appears Steve Jobs has won his final battle. A leaked Adobe announcement reveals the company is to stop work on bringing Flash to mobile devices. Jobs was a famous detractor of Flash, ruling that it should not be supported by Apple’s portable devices: a small problem when the iPhone [...] |
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