I’m kind of nuts about android keyboards. I’ve tried them all, even the weird ones, but I always seem to come back to Swype. It is simply the smoothest interface for one-handed touchscreen input, as far as I’m concerned. At least, it was. The other major keyboard contender has always been SwiftKey. Predictive typing that […]
Texting isn’t just about teens anymore – today is the twentieth birthday of text messaging. The quick and oft-used method of communication is all grown up, but it doesn’t show any signs of stopping. Let us reflect upon and celebrate the great gift of portable and nigh-immediate transcontinental communication in written form. The first text […]
Introducing a tablet into my workflow has been great. My Nexus 7 is conveniently portable, it shifts a lot of battery-draining activities off of my phone, and the bigger screen is so much better for media consumption and gaming than a phone could ever be. Having two mobile consumption devices did add a few minor […]
Not happy with Apple’s new iOS6 maps? Miss the old Google Maps that you used to have built in? Looks like you may be out of luck for the foreseeable future. According to Google’s CEO Eric Schmidt, Maps won’t come to the App Store anytime soon. The Google Maps application that came baked into previous versions was removed from […]
RIM (Research in Motion) is dying. That’s been evident since the release of the iPhone by Apple all the way back in 2007. Instead of immediately going to work on a new platform to compete with the iOS enemy, RIM insisted physical keyboards were the way to go and that touchscreens were a fad. Even […]
Adobe announces today, via their blog, the discontinuation of support for its Flash video player for new Android devices. As of August 15, the Flash application will no longer be available for downloading from the Google Play store, except for Android devices that already have a previous version of the player on them. Adobe warns […]
We’ve looked at SugarSync a couple of times in the past. Personally, the company is one of my favorite cloud storage services. Now, two lucky Techcitement readers can win free 10 GB accounts to see what we’re raving about. The rules are simple. Like Techcitement on Facebook. Share articles from our Facebook page with a […]
Amidst rumors of Apple ditching Google maps in the upcoming version of iOS (6 to be exact), Google has seen fit to provide details about upcoming features in Google Maps right before Apple’s own announcement during WWDC (Apple Worldwide Developers Conference). While Google steered clear of answering any questions about Apple’s potential homegrown new mapping […]
Yesterday, Judge Denise Cote of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, in a 56-page decision, denied Apple’s motion to dismiss the federal antitrust complaint filed against it, which alleged that Apple spearheaded a conspiracy among e-book publishers to fix e-book prices by introducing “agency pricing” where the publisher, not the […]
If you’ve read my previous articles, you may have noticed that I use a lot of different mobile devices in the course of a year, in addition to the ones I own myself. Plus, I love to try out custom Android ROMs. So, when the news broke yesterday that Google had implemented some pretty severe […]
