TECH.BLORGE.com » Michael W. Jones http://tech.blorge.com Top Technology news Mon, 13 Feb 2012 05:01:55 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Senate will look at security again – do users really care? http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:/2011/05/17/senate-will-look-at-security-again-do-users-really-care/ http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:/2011/05/17/senate-will-look-at-security-again-do-users-really-care/#comments Tue, 17 May 2011 17:00:23 +0000 Michael W. Jones http://tech.blorge.com/?p=37776 The U.S. Senate, having just held hearings on the state of Internet privacy in our fair land, have decided to do it again in a few days time. With users happily and freely giving away their [...] Related posts:
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]]> http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:/2011/05/17/senate-will-look-at-security-again-do-users-really-care/feed/ 0 Nvidea CEO tells why Android tablets don’t sell http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:/2011/05/16/nvidea-ceo-tells-why-android-tablets-don%e2%80%99t-sell/ http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:/2011/05/16/nvidea-ceo-tells-why-android-tablets-don%e2%80%99t-sell/#comments Mon, 16 May 2011 16:10:27 +0000 Michael W. Jones http://tech.blorge.com/?p=37755 Android tablets are notoriously not coming anywhere near matching the sales of market-leader Apple’s iPad. Instead, sales are fairly dismal and Jen-Hsun Huang thinks he knows what is causing the problems.

Huang is interested in this particular problem [...] Related posts:

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]]> http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:/2011/05/16/nvidea-ceo-tells-why-android-tablets-don%e2%80%99t-sell/feed/ 2 The Cloud is so leaky we should call it The Rain http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:/2011/05/13/the-cloud-is-so-leaky-we-should-call-it-the-rain/ http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:/2011/05/13/the-cloud-is-so-leaky-we-should-call-it-the-rain/#comments Fri, 13 May 2011 17:22:19 +0000 Michael W. Jones http://tech.blorge.com/?p=37491 If you look for them, you will find that there are many thousands of stories out there about the business aspects of the cloud, and especially how companies should be working to monetize it. There [...] Related posts:
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  2. Amazon cloud service blamed for Sony hacking
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All [...] Related posts:

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This is yet another attempt by Microsoft [...] Related posts:

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Of course, no one is asking why anyone needs a 75-inch [...] Related posts:

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Privachi is hardly Facebook yet, [...] Related posts:

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Multiple sources are being [...] Related posts:

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Mark Zuckerberg’s job, as he see it, [...] Related posts:

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