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Windows Mobile bleeds market share
Posted from TECH.BLORGE on November 15, 2009

Windows Mobile bleeds market shareThe Gartner Group reported last week that the almost meteoric rise of the iPhone and the longer steady rise of the RIM Blackberry have been largely at the expense of Microsoft and their Windows Mobile platform.

Both the [...]

The CrunchPad is going to be a bit more expensive than first advertised
Posted from TECH.BLORGE on November 15, 2009

Apple looking to hire in-house game developersIt seems the CrunchPad from TechCrunch is still a go, but it isn’t going to deliver on at least one of its promises.

Since July 2008, Michael Arrington, CEO of TechCrunch, has been dreaming of a low cost tablet one could use [...]

Impression: Netflix for PS3 – free to access and easy to use
Posted from TECH.BLORGE on November 15, 2009

Impression: Netflix for PS3 – free to access and easy to useSony and Netflix recently announced that Netflix streaming Watch Instantly service would be coming to the PS3. The service is now here as Netflix is sending out discs [...]

Nvidia complains about Intel tactics
Posted from TECH.BLORGE on November 15, 2009

Nvidia complains about Intel tacticsNvidia has joined Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) in complaining loudly about the tactics Intel uses to sell its products, especially the strong-arm bundling of video chips with CPUs.

Intel dominates the PC CPU market, which is the area [...]

Wife entraps pedophile husband by posing online as an underage girl
Posted from TECH.BLORGE on November 15, 2009

Wife entraps pedophile husband by posing online as an underage girl An enraged wife entrapped her pedophile husband online by posing as an underage girl. She ended up reporting her husband to the authorities after she collected evidence against [...]

Switzerland sues Google over Street View data protection
Posted from TECH.BLORGE on November 14, 2009

Switzerland sues Google over Street View data protectionHere we go again. Another week, another country threatening to take legal action against Google for its Street View service. Although it’s pretty clear by now that Street View is legal [...]

Apple looking to hire in-house game developers
Posted from TECH.BLORGE on November 14, 2009

Apple looking to hire in-house game developersIt looks like Apple may want to cut itself a little piece of the lucrative iPhone gaming pie.

To date, apple has only launched only four of its own applications for the iPhone and iPod Touch — MobileMe iDisk, Keynote Remote, Remote [...]

Madoff programmers arrested
Posted from TECH.BLORGE on November 14, 2009

Madoff programmers arrestedTwo computer programmers that worked for Bernie Madoff’s firm have been charged with helping the convicted white collar criminal to defraud investors out of billions of dollars.

Jerome O’Hara of Malvern, N.Y., and George Perez of East Brunswick, N.J. Were arrested Friday, [...]

Google Books restrictions grow
Posted from TECH.BLORGE on November 14, 2009

Google Books restrictions growThe noose continues to tighten around Google Book Search as legal actions from all quarters restrict the source material that can be digitized and the uses that Google can make of them.

Google Book Search is a service from Google [...]

Google Chrome OS could “launch within a week”
Posted from TECH.BLORGE on November 13, 2009

Google Chrome OS could "launch within a week"Google first announced its Chrome OS operating system in July. Many people were very interested to see what Google could do to enter the already crowded OS market. Those people may [...]

Walmart launches iPhone app for holiday shopping
Posted from TECH.BLORGE on November 13, 2009

Walmart launches iPhone app for holiday shoppingJust in time for the holiday shopping season, Walmart has launched an iPhone and iPod Touch app to help you with your holiday gift shopping.

Walmart has launched a Walmart app (iTunes link) which will help you locate the closest [...]

Rupert Murdoch will remove content from Google within “months”
Posted from TECH.BLORGE on November 13, 2009

Rupert Murdoch will remove content from Google within Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp will disappear from Google indexing sometime in the coming months.

Mr. Murdoch has made it very clear that he no longer has any interest in his content appearing in the Google search index, and that he [...]

YouTube to launch full-fledged HD
Posted from TECH.BLORGE on November 13, 2009

Google has announced that YouTube will soon include 1080p format videos. That’s the higher-resolution high definition format, sometimes known as Full HD.

The site launched high definition videos late last year, but restricted them to the 720p format which is the minimum resolution required under most definitions to qualify as “high definition”. [...]

Twitter starts shrinking in October
Posted from TECH.BLORGE on November 13, 2009

twitter-failwhale After a nearly flat September, Twitter saw a whopping 8 percent drop in users during the month of October. Has the service reached critical mass long before becoming mainstream?

Looking at Twitter’s traffic numbers as reported by Comscore, the service [...]

Bloggers and tech geeks make good neighbors
Posted from TECH.BLORGE on November 12, 2009

Bloggers and tech geeks make good neighborsFar from being the overweight nerds living in their parents’ basement, it turns out that tech geeks, including bloggers and social network users, are valuable members of society. No, really.

There’s a definite stereotypical [...]