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Posted from TECH.BLORGE on November 6, 2009
Music piracy is a huge part of the Internet and, whether you think it’s a major problem as the record labels would have us believe or not, it is [...]
Posted from TECH.BLORGE on November 6, 2009
The unstoppable juggernaut known as Facebook continues leaving a path of destruction in its wake as it adds even more users.
According to All Facebook, the popular social network has now broken through the 325 million registered users barrier [...]
Posted from TECH.BLORGE on November 6, 2009
A judge has ordered BlueBeat to immediately halt sales of The Beatles MP3s on its site, but the company is coming back with a rather unique defense.
The saga of the BlueBeat website (previous stories here [...]
Posted from TECH.BLORGE on November 6, 2009
The man heading the One Laptop Per Child program says the next technology produced under the scheme will likely be a tablet device rather than a netbook. He has also come up with a new target for the cost [...]
Posted from TECH.BLORGE on November 6, 2009
Without warning or any need based on it’s applications, iPhone gaming company Storm8 has been snooping on users’ cell phone numbers and storing them on their servers. Left unchecked, what other kind of malware [...]
Posted from TECH.BLORGE on November 5, 2009
Is the CrunchPad, that low-cost Web tablet for the masses conceived by TechCrunch, dead in the water, destined to be vaporware always threatening to make an appearance but never making it [...]
Posted from TECH.BLORGE on November 5, 2009
Google has unveiled a new tool allowing registered users to see all the data the firm stores about them which relates to their account. As well as seeing the data, users can easily wipe part or all of it.
Posted from TECH.BLORGE on November 5, 2009
Just in time for the holiday shopping season, Google has launched a new Commerce Search engine to aid retailers in making sure customers find just the information they need.
The months of November and December can make or break retailers both in [...]
Posted from TECH.BLORGE on November 5, 2009
In his review of the Motorola Droid, New York Times writer David Pogue tried to coin the phrase “App Phone” for the newest, high-end mobile devices, presumably because, well, you can install applications on them. While the newer platforms are getting [...]
Posted from TECH.BLORGE on November 4, 2009
The iPhone is a great product, of that there is very little debate. Even I, as an Apple hater, happily admit that the company outdid [...]
Posted from TECH.BLORGE on November 4, 2009
Intel is facing a federal antitrust lawsuit from New York’s Attorney General over claims it used “bribery and coercion” to maintain its market share. It follows a record fine of $1.45 billion imposed by the European Union over similar activity.
Posted from TECH.BLORGE on November 4, 2009
The Beatles are finally releasing official digital files of all of their studio albums, while also suing a company for selling illegal ones.
From the “I can’t believe it took this long to happen!” files, EMI Records is [...]
Posted from TECH.BLORGE on November 4, 2009
Verizon has been drumming up press for it’s new DROID smartphone in commercials by showing a map of Verizon’s 3G coverage beside one of AT&T’s. Now AT&T has filed a lawsuit claiming that the map is misleading because it doesn’t include [...]
Posted from TECH.BLORGE on November 3, 2009
Black box recorders, or Event Data Recorders (EDR) to give them their official title, have been fitted on aircraft for decades. They help investigators piece together what [...]
Posted from TECH.BLORGE on November 3, 2009
Google has launched a new beta version of its Chrome browser which adds the ability to sync bookmarks across multiple computers.
One of the biggest roadblocks users have mentioned to making Google Chrome their primary web browsing utility is the lack [...]
