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Posted from TECH.BLORGE on July 4, 2009
When people think of celebrity and entertainment news they think of, well, People, as in the magazine. On line, though, the Yahoo site Omg is the place where the worshipers in the cult of personality go to genuflect.
The Yahoo [...]
Posted from TECH.BLORGE on July 4, 2009
Some observers are worried about privacy issues involved in Einstein 3, the new government program aimed at detecting and preventing cyber-attacks on U.S. government computer systems.
The new program, which is being developed by the Department of Homeland Security under the watchful [...]
Posted from TECH.BLORGE on July 4, 2009
Planning to attend the Rock Werchter music festival in Belgium this weekend? You may want to disable Bluetooth on your phone unless you want your movements tracked all over the festival site.
According to a report from [...]
Posted from TECH.BLORGE on July 4, 2009
A top Symantec executive has hit out at free antivirus software, including Microsoft’s Microsoft Security [...]
Posted from TECH.BLORGE on July 3, 2009
The Sony Walkman has reached the grand old age of 30. And its impact and influence on the world of music cannot be underestimated. Which [...]
Posted from TECH.BLORGE on July 3, 2009
TechCrunch, one of the leading technology and social media blogs in the world, is about to enter a whole new industry with the launch of its CrunchPad table computer.
There is no question that TechCrunch founder [...]
Posted from TECH.BLORGE on July 3, 2009
The virtual CEO of a virtual bank in virtual world game Eve Online has embezzled virtual currency to pay some very real bills. But he only broke the rules by attempting to make a real world profit from [...]
Posted from TECH.BLORGE on July 2, 2009
Twitter is all about making connections. These come in the form of followers, who can be known friends or simply people who are [...]
Posted from TECH.BLORGE on July 2, 2009

Microsoft appears to finally have an ad campaign that is resonating with consumers, but not all of the ads did it quite the right way.
After the poorly received Bill Gates & Jerry Seinfeld commercials of a few [...]
Posted from TECH.BLORGE on July 2, 2009
A British consumer group says lawyers for software manufacturers are wrongly accusing people of putting video games on filesharing services. It argues this seriously brings into question the process used to identify offenders.
Which? Computing, a magazine produced by the [...]
Posted from TECH.BLORGE on July 2, 2009
Spammers and scammers alike have been churning out emails designed to ensnare fans looking for news about the death of the King of Pop. Some security researchers describe the [...]
Posted from TECH.BLORGE on July 1, 2009
Firefox 3.5 was released on June 30 after, well, not really that much of a publicity drive. Regardless, the newest build of the Mozilla Web [...]
Posted from TECH.BLORGE on July 1, 2009

Formerly one of the most talked about video startups, Joost has decided to become a white label video hosting service, pretty much ensuring its eventual death.
Joost arrived on the video streaming with [...]
Posted from TECH.BLORGE on July 1, 2009
Officially China has indefinitely postponed the launch of the much-maligned Green Dam Youth Escort internet filter. But the decision appears to be motivated by practical needs rather than principles.
The state news agency Xinhua broke the news [...]
Posted from TECH.BLORGE on July 1, 2009
One of the greatest challenges of Twitter has always been managing connections that number in the hundreds or even thousands. These new features may not be a silver bullet, but will have the Twitterati breathing a [...]
