Tuesday, November 29, 2011

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Rating the Black Friday/Cyber Monday scams

Posted: 29 Nov 2011 05:20 AM PST


Categories: TECH.BLORGE

Malware distributors who try to trick people using topical subjects are, of course, the scum of the earth. But that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t acknowledge that some of them are more skilful than others. Take, for example, two scams that have [...] Related posts: Black Friday online sales – Cyber Monday comes early Microsoft warns [...]

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Square Enix: Final Fantasy VII will likely never get remade

Posted: 29 Nov 2011 12:00 AM PST


Categories: GAMER.BLORGE

In a recent interview with the man behind the Final Fantasy series, Yoshinori Kitase, he revealed some insight into the studio's development process. He [...] Related posts: Square Enix to explore possibility of Final Fantasy VII remake Square Enix: No Final Fantasy XIII DLC Square Enix: Final Fantasy XIV not on Xbox 360 due to [...]

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Jobs’ family to get along fine without selling stock

Posted: 28 Nov 2011 10:20 PM PST


Categories: MAC.BLORGE

Recently, financial advisors have fallen from the sky to proclaim Lauren Powell Jobs should sell many if not all of the shares Steve Jobs left his family in order to minimize any payable taxes. However, there’s more to life than avoiding taxes and clear value in holding onto to those AAPL an DIS [...] Related [...]

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FAA: Turn off all electronic devices, or not

Posted: 28 Nov 2011 10:40 AM PST


Categories: TECH.BLORGE

If you fly, then you know that everyone is required to turn off all electronic devices before take off or else. However, repeated tests over the course of decades haven’t found any evidence that using a cellphone, tablet, PDA or reader during take off, or landing, causes any problems. The New York [...] Related posts: [...]

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Facebook Pages offer new twist on domain name row

Posted: 28 Nov 2011 06:00 AM PST


Categories: TECH.BLORGE

It’s often joked that Facebook is trying to replace the world wide web itself. That joke’s just got a little closer to the bone with the launch of legal action over the rights to operate a particular Facebook page. The case [...] Related posts: Facebook to offer local advertising Facebook Friendship Pages kinda creepy European [...]

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