iPhoneTouch.BLORGE.com

• Top 10 best free iPhone and touch racing games

Photo.BLORGE.com

• Ricoh introduces GXR “interchangeable unit camera system”
• Eye-Fi adds FTP uploading

SeanPAune.com

• Waterford Teacher’s Aide Arrested For Sexual Contact With Three Students
• The Berlin Wall: 20 Years Later
• CobWEBs Daily Edition – Breaking News: Hopkins acquires dairy producer & cereal maker
• Modern Warfare 2 Day Is Here!
• Carrie Prejean Is A Moron
• CobWEBs Daily Edition – Go to Twitter and collect $200 from LinkedIn
• Dollhouse Officially Cancelled
• CobWEBs Daily Edition – Is Twitter’s light shining too brightly too soon?
• Joss Whedon Comments On Dollhouse Cancellation
• Clash Of The Titans Trailer
• CobWEBs Daily Edition – Twitter numbers – the good, the bad, and the bullshit
• Scattercast Episode 69: Yeah, You’re An “Expert”
• Here Come The Board Game Movies

SiliconANGLE.com

• Mobile Monday: Mobile App News for Week of November 2nd
• Google Acquires AdMob For $750 Million In Stock
• Rumor: Google To Purchase VoIP Solution Gizmo5
• Google Acquires Gizmo5 Soft Phone Service

SitePoint.com

• 18 Great Shopping Carts to Power Your Online Store

StarterTech.com

• EA Purchases Social Gaming Company For $400 Million
• Google, Yahoo And Microsoft Offering Free Wi-Fi For The Holidays
• UK Firm Launches Computers Designed For The Elderly
• RIM Introduces BlackBerry Theme Studio
• Facebook Status Message Used As Alibi In A Crime
• Beware Of Purchasing Xbox Units On Calssified Or Auction Sites
• Retrevo Gives Shopping Advice On The Go

Tech.BLORGE.com

• ZuneHD firmware version 4.3 released
• Nokia to replace 14 million defective cell phone chargers
• EA acquires Playfish for $400 million
• Amazon launches Kindle reader for PCs
• Blockbuster launches video rentals on SD cards; world wonders “why”
• Google Latitude gets location history and friend alerts
• Google slashes prices of cloud storage and ups the limit
• Intel to pay AMD $1.25 billion settlement as the companies make peace
• Google looking to speed up the Web with new protocol
• Rupert Murdoch will remove content from Google within “months”
• Walmart launches iPhone app for holiday shopping
• Apple looking to hire in-house game developers

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Sean P. Aune’s Articles For The Week Of November 8th

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iPhoneTouch.BLORGE.com

• Top 10 best free iPhone and Touch role-playing games

Photo.BLORGE.com

• Camera companies making the iPhone more picture friendly with apps
• Olympus E-P2 gets official details

SeanPAune.com

• Shut Up, Natalie Portman
• Is Marvel Entertainment Angling For Its First Oscar With Thor?
• CobWEBs Daily Edition – Twitter Lists, swing and a miss – It’s all now a game
• It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia
• CobWEBs Daily Edition – Nook v. Alex – a Don Quixote quest to recoup their losses
• CBS Launching Video Games Based On Television Series
• Modern Warfare 2 Launch Trailer
• Scattercast Episode 68: Come Together
• Buffy Season 8, Issue 30

SiliconANGLE.com

• Mobile Monday: Mobile App News for Week of October 26th

SitePoint.com

• 20 Merry Icon Sets For Christmas

StarterTech.com

• High School Popularity Contests Come To Twitter In The Form Of Lists
• DVRs Now Being Embraced By Network Television
• Peek Launches Dedicated Mobile Twitter Device
• Barnes & Noble Sued Over Nook Design
• Apple App Store Now Has 100,000 Apps … So?
• Google Dashboard Gives You Control Of Your Data
• iPhone Gaming Company Sued Over Harvesting Cell Numbers
• Rumor: Apple Preparing To Move To Other Carriers

Tech.BLORGE.com

• Creative to enter crowded e-reader market
• Sales of the iPhone in China are tepid
• Apple looking to bring you television for $30 a month
• Best Buy preparing for the death of DVDs
• Google adding bookmark sync to its Chrome browser
• EMI suing BlueBeat while preparing MP3 release of The Beatles catalog
• Google launches new Commerce Search for retailers
• Judge orders BlueBeat to halt sales of Beatles MP3s
• Facebook passes 325 million user milestone
• OpenOffice gets a branded mouse with 18 buttons

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Sean P. Aune’s Articles For The Week Of November 1st

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• Canon issues service Notice over EOS 7D residual images
• Eye-Fi wireless memory cards add direct Facebook uploads

SeanPAune.com

• And Hollywood Prepares To Unleash Another Slew Of Sequels
• Shut Up, Bono
• CobWEBs Daily Edition – Microsoft screwed if they do, screwed if they don’t
• The Cup Of Tears Trailer
• CobWEBs Daily Edition – What … Google is a search engine? Seriously?
• Oscar-Winning Writer Paul Haggis Leaves Scientology
• CobWEBs Daily Edition – Google are innovators but they are also market depressors
• R.I.P. Chuck Biscuits
• Avatar Trailer
• CobWEBs Daily Edition – Hey Robert it’s not all just about you – kthxbai
• Scattercast Episode 67: Google, What Is It Good For
• CobWEBs Daily Edition – Come on Microsoft, quit being such a wuss
• Celeberity Death Hoaxes

SiliconANGLE.com

• Mobile Monday: Mobile App News for Week of October 19th

SitePoint.com

• 10 Fantastic Spam Filtering Solutions

StarterTech.com

• Google Docs Adds Mass Downloading
• Sony Adding Netflix Streaming To Playstation 3
• Google Voice Now Lets You Use Your Own Number
• Amazon Video Game Deal: Spend $80, Get $40 In Credit
• Amazon Introduces PayPhrase To Ease Online Shopping
• Marvel Entertainment Joins The Downloadable Comics Game
• How To Report A Malicious Site To Google

Tech.BLORGE.com

• Daylight Savings Time isn’t until next weekend
• Netflix adds streaming service to Playstation 3
• Rumors of the Apple tablet spin up again as Apple denies
• Roku introduces two new set-top boxes
• Google’s Android 2.0 gets Google Maps Navigation
• Google launches new Music Search service
• Netflix Streaming coming to the Nintendo Wii
• WordPress launches iPhone app 2.0 with new features
• Apple Tablet may be mostly about video instead of books
• PDF error reveals how many users Google Voice has
• BlueBeat website offers up Beatles albums for download; lawyers drool

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Sean P. Aune’s Articles For The Week Of October 25th

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• Canon announces EOS-1D Mark IV with HD video recording
• Mamiya DM22 and DM28 get price tags that could choke a horse

SeanPAune.com

• DVRs Need Time Update Features
• The Batman
• CobWEBs Daily Edition – How time flies when talking tech, politics and stupidity
• Fawlty Towers DVD Giveaway
• CobWEBs Daily Edition – Nook: opening new worlds for content producers
• The Barnes & Noble Nook Gets Called A “Kindle Killer”; I Weep For Journalism
• CobWEBs Daily Edition – Twitter deals and the impact on realtime search
• Here We Go Again: Dollhouse Cancellation Looking Likely
• Scattercast Episode 66: The One In Which Sean Can’t Stop Yawning
• CobWEBs Daily Edition – MySpace has a better chance of recovery than Friendfeed
• CobWEBs Daily Edition – Twitter: Silicon Valley’s perpetual welfare case
• I Want To Be An Analyst!

SiliconANGLE.com

• Mobile Monday: Mobile App News for Week of October 12th

SitePoint.com

• 11 Virtual Machine Solutions To Ease Your Cross-Platform Checks

StarterTech.com

• Yes, Twitter Is Down; World Still Rotating
• New E-Reader Offers Both B&W And Color Screens
• Sidekick Users Get Their Contacts Back Today, More Data At A Later Date
• Barnes & Noble Launches Nook E-Reader
• New Apple iMacs Add Widescreen Displays
• 27″ iMacs Double As HD TVs
• Universal Charger Approved For Cell Phones
• Why Is Free Internet Only At Cheaper Hotels?

Tech.BLORGE.com

• New camera will document your whole life while it leads to endless mocking
• Verizon to offer cell phone service with home produts packages
• Internet Archive prepares to enter the e-book store fray
• Apple launches new iMacs, MacBooks, Mac minis and Magic Mouse
• Barnes & Noble announces new e-reader, the nook
• Rumor: Google preparing to launch a music service named Google Audio
• Microsoft begins selling computers in its online store in celebration of Windows 7
• Amazon rushes to cut International Kindle price to stave off B&N nook sales
• Hulu to begin charging in 2010 says exec
• Netflix earnings up while it plans to go international with streaming services
• Amazon beats the analysts and soars to an all time high
• European Union cracks down on file-sharers

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Sean P. Aune’s Articles For The Week Of October 18th

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• Pentax said to be prepping 30 megapixel 645D for Spring 2010
• Shutterstock buys BigStockPhoto

SeanPAune.com

• 2009 Emmy Winner List
• CobWEBs Daily Edition – Net Neutrality and living up to Forrest Gump’s Potential
• London Teacher Sentenced For Lesbian Affair With Student
• CobWEBs Daily Edition – Newspapers can’t be saved and shouldn’t be
• Music Industry Using Schools To Spread Propaganda
• CobWEBs Daily Edition – Sidewiki: it may not be bad but it’s not good either
• Summit Entertainment To Remake Highlander; Fanboys Weep
• Scattercast Episode 62: A Remake Of A Previous Episode
• Joss Whedon Comfirms Buffy Season 9 Comic
• CobWEBs Daily Edition – They shoot sploggers don’t they?
• Southern Culture On The Skids Review

SiliconANGLE.com

• Mobile Monday: Mobile App News for Week of September 14th
• Lily Allen rips off a TechDirt post while bemoaning piracy

SitePoint.com

• 12 Tools For Managing Your Passwords

StarterTech.com

• Facebook Puts An End To Beacon
• AT&T Launches 3G MicroCell To Boost Signals
• Google Adds Push Support To Mobile Gmail Apps
• Google Brings Commenting To Any Website With Google Sidewiki
• Twitter Plans To Take Over The World
• Time Spent On Social Networks Triples In Just One Year
• Judge Orders Google To Deactivate User’s Gmail Account

Tech.BLORGE.com

• Amazon launches in-house consumer electronics line
• Dell to buy Perot Systems for $3.9 billion
• Microsoft stealing Apple Store employees away for its retail launch
• Microsoft working on a secret tablet named Courier
• Gmail suffering major outage
• Place Pages for Google Maps could be the biggest threat Yelp has faced
• Google ordered to deactivate user’s Gmail account by judge

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Sean P. Aune’s Articles For The Week Of September 20th

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Photo.BLORGE.com

• Pentax Optio M85 is a simple 12 megapixel camera for the masses
• Deutsche Telekom launches stock photography site in the UK

SeanPAune.com

• True Blood Season 2 Finale
• Kanye West Needs Lessons In Class
• CobWEBs Daily Edition – Going to the movies, sort of
• CobWEBs Daily Edition – Flipping the bird
• CobWEBs Daily Edition – TC50:On the count of three everyone YAWN
• CobWEBs Daily Edition – $1 Billion dollar plumbing – damn.
• Scattercast Episode 61: It’ All About The Binary, Baby
• Music Industry Tries To Bleed Apple For More Money

SiliconANGLE.com

• Mobile Monday: Mobile App News for Week of September 7th

SitePoint.com

• 19 Spooky Icon Sets For Halloween

StarterTech.com

• Windows 7 Upgrade Could Take Up To 21 Hours
• T-Mobile Looking At Buying Sprint Nextel
• Vivox Bringing Voice Chat Capabilities To Facebook
• Aviary Launches Myna Audio Editor
• HP DreamScreen Takes Photo Frames To The Next Level
• Google And Apple Locked In A Fight Over Google Voice
• Amazon Launches In House Consumer Electronics Brand

Tech.BLORGE.com

• Windows 7 upgrade could take up to 21 hours
• Intuit purchases personal finance site Mint.com for $170 million
• Zune HD launches with promises of Twitter and Facebook apps
• Google launches Chrome 3.0
• DVD kiosk supplier Redbox in legal fight with movie studios over release dates
• Google Apps flaw leaves college inboxes open to others for three days
• Hulu launches social viewing app on Facebook

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Sean P. Aune’s Articles For The Week Of September 13th

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Photo.BLORGE.com

• Leica launches new 12.1 and 18-megapixel compact cameras
• Novoflex launches adapters for Micro Four Thirds mounts

SeanPAune.com

• Spotify May Change Music As We Know It
• CobWEBs Episode 19 – RSS Is Dead, Long Live RSS
• Buffy Season 8, Issue 28
• CobWEBs Daily Edition – What’s up with Technorati
• Apple Keeps Getting The iPod Touch Wrong
• CobWEBs Daily Edition – Blog Subscription Model & will they work?
• District 9
• CobWEBs Daily Edition – We solve the e-reader dilemma
• Scattercast Episode 60: Where did my body go?!?
• 9/11 – Eight Years On, And It’s Time To Sing Some Praises
• CobWEBs Daily Edition – The changing landscape of Facebook, Friendfeed & Twitter
• Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
• Mother Accused Of Incest With Son She Gave Up For Adoption

SiliconANGLE.com

• Mobile Monday: Mobile App News for Week of August 31st
• Can the iPod Nano camera really replace a Flip?

SitePoint.com

• 10 Solutions For Your Cloud Hosting Needs

StarterTech.com

• Could The iPod Classic Be Doomed?
• Monopoly City Streets Coming September 9th
• New iPods For 2009
• How To Pick A 2009 iPod
• 9/11 Enters The iPhone Age
• Toys R’ Us Launches Massive Video Game Trade-In Plan

Tech.BLORGE.com

• Two girls rescued from a drain after updating Facebook status
• T-Mobile and Orange merger will create Britain’s biggest mobile phone operator
• 2009 iPod lineup announced, the iPod Nano comes out the big winner
• Google developing new micropayment system
• Survey finds that iPhone users sure do love their apps
• CBS to use Last.fm data to program four radio stations

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Sean P. Aune’s Articles For The Week Of September 7th

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Photo.BLORGE.com

• Rollei launches three new old school scanners
• Sony introduces full-frame digital SLR for the budget minded

SeanPAune.com

• Famous Graves Rock My World
• Classmates.com Can Bite Me
• So, That’s What A Vacation Feels Like…
• Houston School Ban Sexting, Clueless Teens Thank Them
• Scattercast Episode 58 – Get Out!

SitePoint.com

• 11 Contextual Ad Alternatives to Google AdSense

StarterTech.com

• Extended Warranties For Laptops Is Always A Good Idea
• Be Careful Of Auto-Renewal Settings When Subscribing To A Site
• Annual Apple iPod Event Looks To Be Set For September 9th
• Facebook Releases Version 3.0 Of Its iPhone App
• United States Governors Receiving Mystery Laptops

Tech.BLORGE.com

• DivX encoded films come to Film Fresh
• Vonage iPhone app in second round of testing
• Investment groups pool money to purchase Skype from eBay
• Web video viewing hits record highs in July

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Sean P. Aune’s Articles For The Week Of August 23rd

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According to a recent article from Scientific American, numerous studies have been conducted about the economic and environmental benefits of eliminating one day from the standard five-day work week.  Instead of working a 40-hour schedule over five days of eight hours each, you would instead do it over four days of ten hours each.  This would give everyone a three day weekend each weekend.

Before you start whooping it up about how wonderful that is, remember this means you would be in your office ten hours a day for four days a week.  Imagine an 8 AM – 6 PM or 9 AM – 7 PM schedule.  Imagine trying to still cook at home… going to the gym… running errands… anything else you might try to do on a work day.  Still excited about the concept?

Before you start making up your minds, there are some actual benefits from the scheme.  In August 2008, Utah impletmented the plan with 17,000 of its state employees.  Here are the pros according to the state:

Local governments in particular have had their eyes on Utah over the last year; the state redefined the workday for more than 17,000 of its employees last August. For those workplaces, there’s no longer a need to turn on the lights, elevators or computers on Fridays—nor do janitors need to clean vacant buildings. Electric bills have dropped even further during the summer, thanks to less air-conditioning: Friday’s midday hours have been replaced by cooler mornings and evenings on Monday through Thursday. As of May, the state had saved $1.8 million.

There is no arguing that not only is the state saving money, but all of those things they listed should have a definite impact on the environment, and it also impacts your wallet as you are spending one day less a week on the road commuting to work, no money spent on an expensive lunch out and so on.

While everything everyone is listing sounds like it lands on the size of positive, I have to be my usual nay saying self and bring up the fact that unless you get the rest of the world on board, this will be a disaster if it should ever get wide spread in the USA only.  We already lag behind the majority of the world in many ways, and if we give them a leg up of working five calendar days a week as opposed to four, and mind you this has nothing to do with hours, they will have a distinct tactical advantage in reaction time to market movements, world developments and more.  Again I stress that this is only if by some wild-eyed chance this schedule would gain wide spread acceptance in this country.

If it remains in the realm of some state employees and a company here or there, more power to them, but as a national plan, I would have a problem with it.

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Could A Four-Day Work Week Be Coming?

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Effective today I am working at SiliconANGLE as the head of their new mobile division.  Yes, you heard me, “head of the division.  Or as Mark ‘Rizzn’ Hopkins put it to me in an IM conversation today:

I really wish he had said “minions”.  I’ve always wanted me some of those.

The division will be covering mainly mobile application development and monetization news for developers.  I’ll again hand it over to Mark to describe my job from his announcement article:

Sean is joining our staff as of this week to help us boot up a new vertical of coverage in the mobile sector, focusing on mobile monetization.  He’ll primarily be doing weekly wrap-ups of what’s hot in the mobile device sector, with an eye on angles that app developers looking to monetize might find interesting or useful.

We’re also looking for more contributors to work with him, as he’ll be the section editor for all that falls under the the Mobile category button up on the top of the site. If you’re interested, sign up for an account here, and join the “Mobile” group.

Please do join the Mobile group, I need more minions underlings.

I have one more resume floating out there in the world right now, and if I get that job I’m thinking I will call it a day on applying for any more positions… maybe.

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I’ve Joined SiliconANGLE As The Head Of Their Mobile Division

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