| iTunes Match a match made in Heaven? Posted: 15 Nov 2011 09:40 PM PST 
Categories: TECH.BLORGE Apple has finally unveiled iTunes Match, at least in the U.S. But I can’t quite work out whether it’s a stroke of genius or an unnecessary hassle. As usual it depends on whether you’re a fanboy or not. They will love it, the rest of us won’t care. What Is It? iTunes Match is an [...] |
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| Microsoft celebrates 10 years of Xbox: a look back at the original ‘box’ Posted: 15 Nov 2011 09:00 PM PST 
Categories: GAMER.BLORGE Microsoft is currently celebrating the 10-year anniversary for the Xbox brand. Its hard to believe that this once new entrant into the gaming arena was harshly deemed by the gaming community to be a failure. I recall the amount of criticism that surrounded Microsoft's announcement of the Xbox console nearly a decade ago. The original [...] |
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| Rumor: New Xbox to be unveiled at CES January 2012 Posted: 15 Nov 2011 09:00 PM PST 
Categories: GAMER.BLORGE There is a new rumor doing the rounds about the next Xbox system by Microsoft. According to reports, Microsoft could make the big announcement as early as January of next year. French gaming site, Xboxygen is stating that Microsoft is set to make an announcement related to the next Xbox system at CES. The Consumer [...] |
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| A pity Jobs didn’t get his wish Posted: 15 Nov 2011 07:20 PM PST 
Categories: iPHONETOUCH.BLORGE Once upon a time, Apple cofounder and erstwhile CEO Steve Jobs considered building his own wireless network, using unlicensed wifi spectrum, rather than pairing up with one of the existing carriers. Obviously that didn’t come about, but oh to wonder at what could have been. ITWorld was at Monday’s Law Seminars International event in Seattle [...] |
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| Smartphone market expands as prices fall Posted: 15 Nov 2011 12:20 PM PST 
Categories: MOBILE.BLORGE Only last week we wrote about the potential saturation of the smartphone market for high-end handsets. New figures suggest the next step in market development is well underway with new buyers drawn in by cheaper handsets, According to NPD Group, 59 percent of all mobile phones sold during the third quarter of 2011 were smartphones, [...] |
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| Android viruses up 472% since July Posted: 15 Nov 2011 12:20 PM PST 
Categories: TECH.BLORGE Too often the words “open and free” can be summarized with a single word, “infection,” thus presenting an increasingly dire situation that Google and its Android partners ignore at their peril. Citing Juniper Networks analyst Dan Hoffman, Bloomberg is reporting a string of dangling statistics and supporting quotes about Android security designed to instill shock, [...] |
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| Back to Mac: iOS 5 style notifications with Growl Posted: 15 Nov 2011 10:00 AM PST 
Categories: MAC.BLORGE For years, quite literally, notifications on the iPhone were poorly implemented, disruptive and something of an embarrassment. That changed with the release of iOS 5 and now a clever lad has figured out how to bring some of that goodness back to the Mac. Yes, iOS 5 notifications are pretty darned cool. So much so [...] |
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| Salman Rushdie defeats Facebook Posted: 15 Nov 2011 10:00 AM PST 
Categories: TECH.BLORGE Ahmed Rushdie has prevailed in a lengthy dispute with Facebook over his profile page. He’ll now be allowed to use his better-known middle name, Salman. The Indian-British author is best known for his novel The Satanic Verses, which led to Ayatollah Khomeini of Iran issuing a fatwa in 1989. According to Rushdie’s Twitter account, Facebook [...] |
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