BLORGE http://blorge.com Top technology news today Sat, 11 Feb 2012 08:20:03 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2 Schools bid MacBook adieu, will welcome MacBook Air http://blorge.com/2012/02/11/schools-bid-macbook-adieu-will-welcome-macbook-air/ http://blorge.com/2012/02/11/schools-bid-macbook-adieu-will-welcome-macbook-air/#comments Sat, 11 Feb 2012 08:20:03 +0000 admin http://blorge.com/2012/02/11/schools-bid-macbook-adieu-will-welcome-macbook-air/

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And, they WILL welcome it. When you’re waiting for the next big thing, Apple can sometimes seem so slow and plodding. However, from the competition’s perspective, the Cupertino kids are always more than a step ahead. On Thursday, the company killed of their consumer/education MacBook portable and, then Friday, released a special education [...] Related [...]

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Although the iPod still dominates the standalone media player space with more than 70 percent of the market, sales are shrinking — in fact, “shriveling” might be a better descriptor. However, if you’re out on the street, there are still plenty of telltale white earbuds. Though everything looks the same — Apple, Apple [...] Related [...]

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When you’re waiting for the next big thing, Apple can sometimes seem so slow and plodding. However, from the competition’s perspective, the Cupertino kids are always more than a step ahead. On Thursday, the company killed of their consumer/education MacBook portable and, then Friday, released a special education only version of the MacBook [...] Related [...]

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The first course in iPhoneography, or iPhone photography, is being offered at Kensington and Chelsea College, London. Which I personally think is a fantastic idea. Veteran photographer Richard Gray is the man behind ‘iPhoneography: An Introduction to Photography with the iPhone’, a [...] Related posts: Smartphone snaps on the rise Google Apps flaw leaves college [...]

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A Microsoft Store is likely to be opening near you soon. Even if you’re not in the United States. Possibly. Probably. Microsoft has been opening Stores around the U.S. since late in 2009. It’s been an experiment to this point, with [...] Related posts: Microsoft opening more retail stores Microsoft now hiring employees for its [...]

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Apple is rather predictable, except when it isn’t. As relates to the long-rumored iPad 3, it seems that Cupertino will be eschewing the road less traveled with a growing body of rumorological evidence pointing an event to and release right about the same time as last year. And, like 2011, 2012 is expected [...] Related [...]

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The man who created games including Monkey Island has found a simple way to literally make a million dollars over night. It turns out all you need to do is ask. Tim Schafer now runs a studio named Double Fine [...] Related posts: Wii can’t do this: PS3 enters into Guinness Book of World Records [...]

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]]> http://blorge.com/2012/02/10/monkey-island-makers-destroy-kickstarter-records/feed/ 0 Mass Effect Infiltrator for the iOS looks like the real deal http://blorge.com/2012/02/10/mass-effect-infiltrator-for-the-ios-looks-like-the-real-deal/ http://blorge.com/2012/02/10/mass-effect-infiltrator-for-the-ios-looks-like-the-real-deal/#comments Fri, 10 Feb 2012 08:20:02 +0000 admin http://blorge.com/2012/02/10/mass-effect-infiltrator-for-the-ios-looks-like-the-real-deal/

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EA’s first attempt at making a Mass Effect game for the iOS platform was a bit of a letdown [...] Related posts: Confirmed: Mass Effect for PS3 announcement tomorrow [UPDATED] Mass Effect 2 on PS3 rumor resurfaces Mass Effect 2 for PS3 may be a reality

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According to reports, Sony has apparently revealed a LittleBigPlanet carting game for the PS3. Details are scant at the moment, but sources indicate that the game will be 3D [...] Related posts: Sony pushing LittleBigPlanet as biggest PS3 game of 2008 Sony to offer two free games and possibly working on Chrome for PS3 LittleBigPlanet [...]

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]]> http://blorge.com/2012/02/10/sony-working-on-a-littlebigplanet-kart-game/feed/ 0 Growing number of homes choose broadband + broadcast TV http://blorge.com/2012/02/10/growing-number-of-homes-choose-broadband-broadcast-tv/ http://blorge.com/2012/02/10/growing-number-of-homes-choose-broadband-broadcast-tv/#comments Fri, 10 Feb 2012 06:40:03 +0000 admin http://blorge.com/2012/02/10/growing-number-of-homes-choose-broadband-broadcast-tv/

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More than nine in 10 homes pay for cable television. However, with new economic realities and a competitive climate change is in the air. Whereas cable’s share has decline, the number of homes with broadband internet continues to rise and, interestingly, many of those with fast internet are choosing to get television the [...] Related [...]

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Microsoft has had fun roasting Google with its Gmail Man spoof. And why not? It’s all just a bit of fun, surely. Microsoft has been losing ground to Google in many sectors for the past few years. Gmail is growing at [...] Related posts: Google accuses Microsoft of spreading lies in new Hotmail ad Microsoft [...]

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Google has made it clear that if and when it completes a takeover of Motorola, it will continue to make the same demands on patent licensing that the phone company has previously made. That includes taking 2.25 percent of the revenue on sales of [...]

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The Rochester, NY-based company synonymous with photography that once employed tens of thousands, but has been acting more like a patent troll of late, is getting out of the business snaps and will focus instead on printing solutions. Momma done took our KodaChrome away and is coming back for the camera — the [...] Related [...]

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The Electronic Privacy Information Center is suing the Federal Trade Commission over Google’s decision to change its privacy policies. That may sound a convoluted way to go about things, but EPIC thinks it’s spotted an important legal loophole. As [...] Related posts: Google Buzz ‘auto-follow’ feature violates Gmail privacy US government demands for Google data [...]

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]]> http://blorge.com/2012/02/09/privacy-group-demands-government-action-on-google/feed/ 0 White MacBook: Now it’s really gone http://blorge.com/2012/02/09/white-macbook-now-it%e2%80%99s-really-gone/ http://blorge.com/2012/02/09/white-macbook-now-it%e2%80%99s-really-gone/#comments Thu, 09 Feb 2012 07:20:03 +0000 admin http://blorge.com/2012/02/09/white-macbook-now-it%e2%80%99s-really-gone/

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When Apple quietly dropped the consumer notebook last July, the company kept offering the durable white portable in the polycarbonate enclosure to education buyers. No more. Once reckoned as the best selling Macintosh in history by market metrics firm NPD, Apple has informed resellers that it has stopped all sales of the white [...] Related [...]

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]]> http://blorge.com/2012/02/09/white-macbook-now-it%e2%80%99s-really-gone/feed/ 0 David Jaffe departs Twisted Metal developer due to creative differences http://blorge.com/2012/02/08/david-jaffe-departs-twisted-metal-developer-due-to-creative-differences/ http://blorge.com/2012/02/08/david-jaffe-departs-twisted-metal-developer-due-to-creative-differences/#comments Thu, 09 Feb 2012 04:20:02 +0000 admin http://blorge.com/2012/02/08/david-jaffe-departs-twisted-metal-developer-due-to-creative-differences/

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During the DICE summit in progress, David Jaffe, the creative mind behind Twisted Metal and God of War announced that he [...] Related posts: David Jaffe is a PS3 fanboy, Twisted Metal not coming to Xbox 360, Wii, iPad Jaffe working on new Twisted Metal game for PS3 – reboot considered as new IP David [...]

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Apple and Facebook started the ball rolling and have directly paid out billions to developers to date. Insatiable hater vituperation aside, the iOS space is still far n’ away the most lucrative and innovative place for devs to be. However, like so many created in Silicon Valley innovations, the app-conomy has taken on [...] Related [...]

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Almost 500,000 “app-related jobs” have been created in the U.S. thanks to the emergence of smartphones, tablets, and social networks. Michael Mandel of SouthMountain Economics, in a new study sponsored by TechNet, estimates that the App Economy generated $20 billion [...] Related posts: Steve, bring the jobs Fake Steve Jobs retires – Dan Lyons kills [...]

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