Today comes the news that profits at Nintendo are through the roof, piqued by increasingly healthy sales of the Wii, and [...]

Yesterday saw a raft of news articles and blog posting reporting that India was developing a $10 laptop. I saw the story, read it with interest and then decided not to write it up for Blorge because something seemed slightly wrong. And so it proved to be, as the Indian Government’s press bureau issued an [...]

I am as big an Apple fangrrl as anyone, but lately Apple has just not been making happy news for me to write about. The company seems to be bound and determined to destroy all of the positive reputation it has built up over the years with a series of bad decisions and snafus.

Amazon.com has launched new online payment options which are clearly stiff competition to the current dominant payment platform on the Web – PayPal. One one hand you see the practical nature of having its own payment system, but on the other there’s a certain amount of reservation about going for a player that does [...]

Dell’s launched new desktop PC models with one particular standout – its Dell Studio Hybrid. Dell claims the PC is 80% smaller than the average desktop minitower, and uses 70% less energy.
CNet and PCMag have already reviewed the system and the consensus is: pretty it may be, powerhouse it ain’t. It’s currently available with [...]

Ok, so it’s not $1 million in cash, but rather a million dollars in free advertising to the best developers of embedded iPhone advertising.  AdMob, a leading mobile advertising provider, is looking for developers that can utilize the unique user-aspects of the iPhone to create a new way of advertising on mobile devices.

The booming sales of high-end SLR cameras has pushed Adobe into incorporating new features and tools into its new Photoshop Lightroom version 2.0.  SLR cameras are helping usher in many of digital photography’s biggest changes, and Adobe is trying to intercept that trend with Lightroom.  The company also hopes customers will be drawn by a number of new features in the software for sorting, cataloging, and editing photos, which has been a hot topic among Photoshop users.

This generation console war is taking a decidedly bizarre twist, where there are two polar opposite sets of gamers being fought [...]

Microsoft has been keeping the raps on a non-Windows-based operating system known as Midori, which is being built from the ground up to become the predecessor to Windows Vista.  Microsoft realized it’s going to take more than simply improving on its existing technology to turn itself around.
According to SD Times,  internal Microsoft documents have [...]

Billionaire investor T. Boone Pickens dumped all of his 10 million shares in Yahoo for an undisclosed loss, stating management issues and a non-merger with Microsoft as reasons for the sudden sale.  Pickens, who bought 10 million Yahoo shares in May in hopes that an acquisition was imminent, said Monday that he got tired [...]

A judge in California ruled that Sprint Nextel Corp’s early termination charges violate state laws. This will certainly put cell phone carriers in a frenzy as they’ve been used to heavily penalizing customers who skip on over to the competition.
The AP reported on the ruling by Alameda County Superior Court Judge Bonnie Sabraw. Sabraw [...]

Major technical business companies like HP, Intel, and Yahoo, along with several educational and research organizations are coming together to create a global research test bed for cloud computing. They’ve also partnered with organizations like Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA), the University of Illinios, the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), and the National [...]

The Blackberry world is abuzz concerning all the hot new handsets coming out in the upcoming months, from the release of the Curve Sunset to the Bold, and eventually the Thunder. Though none of RIMs upcoming handsets are available right now, it is getting so close many addicts can almost taste it.
For those [...]

Microsoft just unveiled some videos of its ongoing Mojave Experiment, which places an unwitting user in a room with a Microsoft representative and a rebranded version of Windows Vista. The representative shows some features of Mojave then reveals that it’s actually Windows Vista. Typically the reaction is a pleasant surprise from the participant, but [...]

A new search engine was launched on Monday called Cuil, and unlike the hundreds of other search engines launched in the past few years, this one got massive amounts of press. Not only did blogs and technology websites all talk about the new “Google killer”, but so did newspapers around the world. The reason for [...]