| Windows Phone 7.5 joins nasty SMS bug club Posted: 12 Dec 2011 10:20 PM PST 
Categories: TECH.BLORGE The latest and greatest version of Microsoft’s smartphone operating system has issues — think embarrassing, really embarrassing. Moreover, the problem doesn’t just affect one model running a specific version of the OS — HTC and Samsung devices running different Windows Phone 7.5 builds have been tested and found vulnerable. Here’s the nut of [...] Related [...] |
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| Wikipedia plans blackout to oppose SOPA Posted: 12 Dec 2011 08:00 PM PST 
Categories: TECH.BLORGE Wikipedia is planning a total blackout of the site, one of the best known and most popular on the Web, in order to protest SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act). SOPA in a nutshell: This is a bill that hands [...] Related posts: Wikipedia founder plans search engine to rival nothing Wikipedia porn row leads to [...] |
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| iOS App Store: 1 billion downloads a month Posted: 12 Dec 2011 05:40 PM PST 
Categories: iPHONETOUCH.BLORGE And, soon Android will pass iOS just because they have nailed the three cornerstones of business: volume, volume and more volume. Or, so we should believe because it’s shtuff Schmidt says. For the time being, however, Apple’s mobile app store is burying the competition. Recently, Google chairman Eric Schmidt told a roomful [...] Related Posts: [...] |
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| Game Of The Year Results + Final Poll Posted: 12 Dec 2011 12:20 PM PST 
Categories: GAMER.BLORGE Which game will be crowned Blorge Game of the Year? Read on to find out how to have your say. After five polls we have reached the climax of the race to be crowned Blorge Game of the [...] Related posts: Around the Web: surprising Game of the Year awards The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim [...] |
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| Mac App Store downloads top 100 million [u] Posted: 12 Dec 2011 10:40 AM PST 
Categories: MAC.BLORGE Apple hasn’t put a lot of effort into marketing the Mac App Store. However, the venture — not billions of downloads like the iOS version — is succeeding nonetheless. And, as you’ll in the update below, Apple isn’t counting possible click they, which makes this milestone all the more impressive. Since its official [...] Related [...] |
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| Mac App Store downloads top 100 million Posted: 12 Dec 2011 08:20 AM PST 
Categories: MAC.BLORGE Apple hasn’t put a lot of effort into marketing the Mac App Store. However, the venture — not billions of downloads like the iOS version — is succeeding nonetheless. However, whereas Cupertino touts iOS’ half million apps in paragraph one, the software store for the rest of us gets a desultory “thousands” mention [...] Related [...] |
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| WebOS a billion dollar gift from HP to open source community Posted: 12 Dec 2011 06:00 AM PST 
Categories: TECH.BLORGE Only 20 months ago HP paid $1.2 billion to buy Palm, with webOS the apparent reason for the otherwise odd-seeming purchase. Now the company is releasing the system on an open source basis. The move comes as HP completes [...] Related posts: Open source rakes in $1.8 Billion in 2006 Obama shows interest in open [...] |
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