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Posted from TECH.BLORGE on November 21, 2009
Physical media such as CD and DVD is very slowly but surely being replaced by digital formats. Whether it’s streaming or downloads, physical is the [...]
Posted from TECH.BLORGE on November 20, 2009
If you were hoping to purchase the nook ereader from Barnes & Noble for the holiday gift giving season, hopefully you did it before now.
According to the New York Times, Barnes & Noble has sold out of the initial productions runs of the [...]
Posted from TECH.BLORGE on November 20, 2009
YouTube has announced it will offer automated video captioning for clips. It will serve as an accessibility tool for hard-of-hearing viewers, but could also make clips easier to find.
The site already allows manual captioning, but most clip uploaders don’t take advantage simply because of [...]
Posted from TECH.BLORGE on November 20, 2009
Skype has finally been sold off from beleaguered auction house eBay, though they will retain a 30 percent stake in the company.
Skype, a leader in the Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) business, was purchased in Oct. 2005 by eBay in a [...]
Posted from TECH.BLORGE on November 20, 2009
Sony unveiled plans for a digital download store to sell music, videos and books just like Apple’s iTunes. What the company forgot to mention is that the digital download space is already too crowded.
The [...]
Posted from TECH.BLORGE on November 20, 2009
City-wide Wi-Fi networks which offer wireless Internet connectivity for free to all residents who want it have pretty much failed to succeed across the United States so [...]
Posted from TECH.BLORGE on November 19, 2009
The launch of popular music streaming service Spotify has already been delayed once in the U.S.A., and now it may be delayed even more due to the record labels not liking the business model.
Spotify is a music streaming service that has [...]
Posted from TECH.BLORGE on November 19, 2009
A problem with the Federal Aviation Authority’s computer system has caused widespread delays and cancellations. The agency stresses there is no security or safety risk stemming from the glitch.
The problem affects the automated process by which flight plans are added to the [...]
Posted from TECH.BLORGE on November 19, 2009
The rumors of the Apple Tablet have now reached a level of surrealism that makes you think someone from David Lynch’s Twin Peaks is running the show. At any moment the Little Man from Another Place is going to [...]
Posted from TECH.BLORGE on November 19, 2009
In the last month, Facebook has overtaken sites like ESPN, ABC and CBS to become the number three video site on the Web.
Just a short month ago, Facebook was in tenth place [...]
Posted from TECH.BLORGE on November 18, 2009
Email is currently one of the key elements of the Internet. And sending and receiving email is usually one of the first things we learn [...]
Posted from TECH.BLORGE on November 18, 2009
Microsoft announced today that it has officially begun work on Internet Explorer 9.
In a completely unsurprising announcement, Steven Sinofsky, president of Microsoft’s Windows and Windows Live division, today announced at the Professional Developers Conference (PDC), that development began three weeks [...]
Posted from TECH.BLORGE on November 18, 2009
It seems some big name online retailers thought it would be okay to trick consumers into giving their credit card information to third-party vendors. The United States Senate is letting them know they thought wrong.
The U.S. Senate Committee on [...]
Posted from TECH.BLORGE on November 18, 2009
Google is scheduled to give the first public demonstration of its forthcoming Chrome operating system tomorrow. Here are some of the questions which could be answered by the event:
What’s the selling point? Is it speed? Price (or lack of it)? The [...]
Posted from TECH.BLORGE on November 17, 2009
Twitter is a massively popular social networking and micro-blogging site that has gained an inordinate amount of headlines and copy over the past year or so. But [...]
