| The worms turns again in Oz Posted: 01 Dec 2011 08:20 PM PST 
Categories: MAC.BLORGE The San Francisco Chronicle is a respectable newspaper, right? Well, yesterday they ran a headline that was, at best, patently false — “Samsung beats Apple in Australia.” Sounds pretty definitive, right? Not even close and so the saga drags on. Yesterday is gone yet might repeat again tomorrow or, for that matter, next [...] Related [...] |
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| Chrome overtakes Firefox in browser wars Posted: 01 Dec 2011 08:20 PM PST 
Categories: TECH.BLORGE Chrome is now the second most popular Web browser behind Internet Explorer, with Firefox dropping to third. There is no way I would have predicted this happening when Google tentatively launched Chrome in 2008. According to StatCounter (via The [...] Related posts: Chrome inches past Safari to become third most popular browser Chrome now controls [...] |
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| Mobile spyware motherload revealed Posted: 01 Dec 2011 12:37 PM PST 
Categories: MOBILE.BLORGE Millions of smartphones contain software that can track almost all of a user’s activity. And nobody’s quite sure why it’s really there or who sees the data. The software concerned is produced by a company called Carrier IQ. The advertised rationale is that [...] |
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| iPhones have Carrier IQ, but its opt in only Posted: 01 Dec 2011 11:00 AM PST 
Categories: iPHONETOUCH.BLORGE Remember Locationgate and when Steve Jobs said Apple doesn’t track anyone and that Android tracks everything? Well, it turns out he had inside information. Specifically, iPhones also use Carrier IQ. However, unlike other smartphone makers, Apple actually gives a damn about privacy. Yes, Jobs was right about Android tracking everything. It also [...] Related Posts: [...] |
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| John Pospisil: 1971 – 2011 Posted: 01 Dec 2011 06:20 AM PST 
Categories: TECH.BLORGE On the morning of November 15, 2011, John Pospisil passed away. The name may not be instantly recognizable to most of you reading this, but John was the owner, founder, and managing editor of Blorge. John’s passing shocked all of us [...] Related posts: John’s Phone – the iPhone for simpletons Google doodle for John [...] |
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| Intelligence agency recruits via online puzzle Posted: 01 Dec 2011 06:20 AM PST 
Categories: TECH.BLORGE A British intelligence agency is using an online code-cracking challenge to attract new staff. Naturally it’s more a publicity move than a genuine contest, and the most obvious drawbacks haven’t yet come to pass. The code comes from the Government [...] Related posts: Robot officially one step away from human intelligence British government considering Digital [...] |
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