Saturday, November 19, 2011

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238 record labels abandon Spotify, Rdio, etc. – ignoring the big picture

Posted: 19 Nov 2011 12:20 AM PST


Categories: TECH.BLORGE

Well done, STHoldings, well done. You’ve just withdrawn from the future in order to try and hold onto the past. Good work. According to Wired, 238 small record labels attached to STHoldings, have withdrawn their music from streaming services including Spotify, Rdio, Napster, and Simfy. This followed on from the publishing of a study which [...]

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iPhone 4S: AT&T’s speedy, Verizon stalwart, Sprint cheap

Posted: 18 Nov 2011 10:20 AM PST


Categories: iPHONETOUCH.BLORGE

Which US-based iPhone 4S carrier is fastest? Most reliable? Drops the fewest calls? Offers the best value? It’s easy to get sucked in by the very specific numbers generated by surveys and the those pretty, pretty colorful charts seem so convincing. However, that’s all just a setup for the iPhone 4S quote of the week, [...]

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Modern Warfare declares victory

Posted: 18 Nov 2011 10:20 AM PST


Categories: TECH.BLORGE

There’s exciting and depressing news from the world of gaming — Activision Blizzard sold more than three quarters of a billion dollars of a single game and buyers played 7 million hours just on the Xbox on the title’s first day. Won’t be getting that time back any time soon. Activision Blizzard’s Modern Warfare 3 [...]

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Flash debaters spoof Occupy movement

Posted: 18 Nov 2011 05:40 AM PST


Categories: TECH.BLORGE

A group of web developers who’ve spoofed the Occupy campaigns have learned a quick lesson: the spoofers can easily become the spoofed. Within hours of developers launching a campaign website against Flash using the theme of the capitalism-related protests, a rival site defending the plug-in had been launched using a virtually identical design. Occupy Flash [...]

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