Article Archive for November 2007
Posted from TECH.BLORGE on November 23, 2007
Sabeer Bhatia seems to be making a career out of making money from Microsoft. This is the guy who sold Hotmail to them for $400 million, after all. Now he wants a piece of Microsoft’s $20 billion Office pie – by coming up with his own online office suite and if he gets to hurt Google’s own Google Docs along the way, that’s no pain on his conscience.
Posted from GAMER.BLORGE on November 23, 2007
Sony are refusing to admit the failure of their proprietary Universal Media Disc (UMD) format. The discs hold games and movies for the Playstation Portable console.
Posted from TECH.BLORGE on November 23, 2007
Five Hollywood studios have sued Beijing-based Jeboo.com and an Internet café in Shanghai for copyright infringements, the state media reports.
Posted from TECH.BLORGE on November 23, 2007
A class action suit has been filed by a California resident against Bungie, the game developer of “Halo 3â€, and Microsoft claiming their blockbuster video game is not fit for its purpose of being played on an Xbox 360.
Posted from TECH.BLORGE on November 22, 2007
For those who may not be familiar with it, Black Friday, in the US is the day after Thanksgiving in which stores have very early sales, early bird specials and so forth. The deals offer insane savings on brand new items from TVs to flash drives and everything in between. Some stores open at Midnight, some at 4am, it just depends. I will be skipping all those offers, for one reason, most of these deals can be had online, right now without the hassle.
Posted from TECH.BLORGE on November 22, 2007
So, you’ve got your Zune 2 and your sitting around with almost nothing to do except wonder what you can do to make your Zune more useful. Hack it, of course. I’m not about to tell you to take it apart but there are some software utilities out there that can increase the usefulness of your Zune.
Posted from GAMER.BLORGE on November 22, 2007
Most analysts are in agreement that the Sony PS3 hasn’t sold anywhere near the expected quantities up to now. Howard Stringer, Sony’s CEO disagrees however, and claims that the sales momentum is matching that which the Playstation 2 experienced in it’s early days.
Posted from TECH.BLORGE on November 22, 2007
The battle to be the DVD format of choice is still dragging on, with both sides claiming the upper hand. In the run up to the all important holiday season, Sony CEO Howard Stringer has been talking up Blu-ray, and claiming his format will ultimately triumph over rival HD-DVD.
Posted from VISTA.BLORGE on November 22, 2007
Leave it to Microsoft to claim that over 88 million copies of its flagship operating system have sold. Vista might be selling but these days it gets more bad reviews than good but Microsoft knows how to sell a bad product.
Posted from TECH.BLORGE on November 22, 2007
YouTube – provider of daily entertainment for Internet junkies everywhere. So why not harness that power for other causes than sharing drunken karaoke sessions or funny ads? If you have the will and a videocamera, why not take up the World Food Program’s challenge to create a video to help educate the online community about global hunger?
Posted from GAMER.BLORGE on November 22, 2007
Whether buying gifts for nephews, nieces, cousins, or your own children, are you making sure you’re buying an appropriate title for them?
Posted from PHOTO.BLORGE on November 22, 2007
The Canon Powershot G9 is a high-end fixed lens digital camera designed for prosumer/photography enthusiasts who has been longing for the RAW mode which has been absent with previous Canon G models.
Posted from TECH.BLORGE on November 22, 2007
It seems if a record company want to sell their songs and give a band on their label a boost, there’s no better way of doing it than getting featured in a rhythm game. Digital sales of tracks featured in Guitar Hero III have apparently seen a dramatic hike since its release.
Posted from TECH.BLORGE on November 21, 2007
The Google Custom Search Business platform is now available internationally in 40 languages, and in close to 80 countries worldwide. It was previously only available in the United States of America to allow organizations to add Google search functionally to their web sites.
Posted from TECH.BLORGE on November 21, 2007
MoveOn.org, best known for its controversial political ads, has set its sights on a whole new type of target: Facebook’s perceived privacy violations.
Facebooks “social ads” are barely over two weeks old, and it has already had the legality questioned, and now it is being pondered if they violate a user’s right to privacy.
