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Archive for the 'TECH.BLORGE' Category

The Simpsons mocks Apple - and about time too

Monday, December 1st, 2008

Anyone who reads Blorge regularly will know I’m not a big fan of Apple. Which makes this occasion a bit of a Godsend for me. Yes, The Simpsons has finally mocked Apple, renamed Mapple especially for [...]

The computer mouse turns 40 - and is facing death

Monday, December 1st, 2008

The humble computer mouse is now 40 years old, with it first being invented and used in 1968 although it didn’t enter mainstream use until the launch of the Apple Macintosh in 1984. But while the [...]

Web-only firms perform best on Black Friday

Monday, December 1st, 2008

Web-only firms perform best on Black Friday It’s already clear that traditional retailers had disappointing (if expected) Black Friday sales. Now its emerged firms with real-world physical stores generally didn’t share in the success of online-only stores.

As Dave Parrack wrote today, stores such as Amazon reported increased business over [...]

Mumbai terrorists employed a surprising weapon - the Blackberry

Monday, December 1st, 2008

Mumbai terrorists employed a surprising weapon - the BlackberryGrenades and assault rifles have long been the tools of death and destruction for terrorists. But killing alone does not allow terrorists to truly gauge the fallout after an attack, and that is precisely why a new [...]

Search seven sites at once with Soovle

Monday, December 1st, 2008

When you’re doing a web search, sometimes simply using Google or Yahoo! doesn’t quite cut it and you have to go to several different sites and perform your search in order to find exactly what you were looking for. The site Soovie is designed [...]

Facebook plans to launch Facebook Connect

Monday, December 1st, 2008

Facebook is reportedly attempting to extend its reach on the web, enabling users to log into other websites using the Facebook credentials through a new program called Facebook Connect.

Working under relatively the same lines as Facebook’s exceptionally controversial Beacon program from last year Facebook users will [...]

Local council posts MI5 spy center details online

Monday, December 1st, 2008

Local council posts MI6 spy centre details online

One of Britain’s local councils published details of a highly sensitive spy center online. The premise, a covert MI5 operations centre, now has potentially dangerous information about [...]

Toshiba reveals first cell-powered upscaling TV Regza

Monday, December 1st, 2008

Toshiba reveals first Cell-powered upscaling TV Regza Toshiba recently revealed the first Cell powered HD TV to hit the market. The Cell technology has been used in other hi-def technology, such as the PS3 for its super computer like computational capabilities. This may be the first offspring to [...]

Notify Me When It’s Up: Find out when down websites are up and running

Sunday, November 30th, 2008

We’ve all probably had a frustrating experience at one point or another with a down website. Be it a blog you’re particularly into, a shopping site, or the latest viral video who’s server couldn’t handle a big surge in web traffic when it got popular–down [...]

Nokia pulls out of Japan

Sunday, November 30th, 2008

Faced with drastically lower global economic expectations, handset manufacturing giant Nokia says that they will pull out of the lucrative (but quirky) Japanese cell phone market, one of the largest in the world. Nokia has announced that they will stop developing and [...]

Rumored Microsoft-Yahoo! deal total fiction?

Sunday, November 30th, 2008

Rumors abound on the business side of the technology market. This has never been more true than in the on-again, off-again romance between Microsoft and Yahoo!. Today there is a new rumor floating about that a new deal is in the works, [...]

Black Friday online sales - Cyber Monday comes early

Sunday, November 30th, 2008

Black Friday has been and gone, and the results from retailers are starting to come in. But it seems on first sight that online retailers have done much better than expected, with sales up on last year [...]

Blu-ray successful amidst economic downturn

Sunday, November 30th, 2008

Blu-ray successful amidst economic downturn Some analysts have been quick to predicted that the sales of Blu-ray movies would suffer due to the economic downturn we are currently facing. However, it seems like they were all wrong. Last month, Blu-ray movie sales have reached an all time high [...]

Netbooks - Arrington misses the point, Intel the plot

Sunday, November 30th, 2008

Netbooks - Arrington misses the point, Intel the plotNetbooks are in the news again, but for different reasons. Michael Arrington is declaiming their insignificance, while Intel is having second thoughts about the [...]

Atari drops harsh fight against illegal filesharers

Saturday, November 29th, 2008

Multiple firms have started cracking down more harshly on people they suspect of illegally sharing, especially in the UK. But some of these firms seem to be operating a very harsh and unfair system of weeding out lawbreakers. Thankfully, [...]

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