| Apple to replace 6-y-o iPod nanos worldwide Posted: 12 Nov 2011 12:20 AM PST 
Categories: MAC.BLORGE The timing of this just wrong. More than six years since the first affected products shipped and three years after the company first formally acknowledged and began fixing the problem in other countries, Apple is spreading the first generation iPod nano replacement program worldwide. What kinds of things do companies announce on a Friday night [...] |
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| RIAA goes after Google Android apps Posted: 12 Nov 2011 12:20 AM PST 
Categories: TECH.BLORGE The RIAA has a new target in its sights: Apps on the Google Android platform which could be used to download copyrighted music to smartphones. MP3 Music Download Pro is currently the eighth most-popular free Android app. It’s promoted as allowing users to “search and download free music & lyrics,”and it’s not alone in doing [...] |
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| Uncharted 3 and Modern Warfare 3 breaks sales records Posted: 11 Nov 2011 09:20 PM PST 
Categories: GAMER.BLORGE Two heavy hitting titles released this month and the initial sales numbers are impressive. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 enjoyed the biggest launch day sales ever and Uncharted 3 is now the third fastest selling PS3 exclusive. Sony sent out a short press release recently stating that the company sold 3.8 million copies of [...] |
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| Steam gets hacked – Gabe Newell offers free game as compensation? Posted: 11 Nov 2011 09:20 PM PST 
Categories: GAMER.BLORGE Earlier this week Valve issued a statement regarding a hacking incident on its forums. It appears that this may have been a prelude to a bigger attack against Steam and its member data. Valve boss, Gabe Newell issued a statement recently revealing that the earlier reports of hacking on the forums go beyond it. According [...] |
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| Bye bye, Christmas books, it’s eReaders under the 2011 tree Posted: 11 Nov 2011 07:40 PM PST 
Categories: TECH.BLORGE Pop quiz — what’s the closest bookstore to where you live and are you sure it’s still there? Borders stores nationwide are either closing or just plain gone, and the reasons for the extinction are unmistakable: the economy (still) sucks and ebooks are growing by leaps and bounds. VentureBeat posits the rise of the ebook [...] |
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| Facebook forced to ask question first, act later Posted: 11 Nov 2011 05:39 AM PST 
Categories: TECH.BLORGE It appears Facebook is close to agreeing a major settlement with the Federal Trade Commission that would overturn the most annoying part of its privacy policy: the way that it makes changes and then waits for users to put settings back to normal. While this seems to happen regularly, the case in question involves changes [...] |
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