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Posted from TECH.BLORGE on November 15, 2009
The 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 [...]
Posted from TECH.BLORGE on November 15, 2009
It 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 [...]
Posted from TECH.BLORGE on November 15, 2009
Sony 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 [...]
Posted from TECH.BLORGE on November 15, 2009
Nvidia 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 [...]
Posted from TECH.BLORGE on November 15, 2009
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 [...]
Posted from TECH.BLORGE on November 14, 2009
Here 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 [...]
Posted from TECH.BLORGE on November 14, 2009
It 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 [...]
Posted from TECH.BLORGE on November 14, 2009
Two 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, [...]
Posted from TECH.BLORGE on November 14, 2009
The 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 [...]
Posted from TECH.BLORGE on November 13, 2009
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 [...]
Posted from TECH.BLORGE on November 13, 2009
Just 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 [...]
Posted from TECH.BLORGE on November 13, 2009
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 [...]
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”. [...]
Posted from TECH.BLORGE on November 13, 2009
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 [...]
Posted from TECH.BLORGE on November 12, 2009
Far 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 [...]
