Apple makes their iTunes Music Match service available to the general public today, after months of beta-testing by developers. Windows and Mac OS X users interested in trying out the subscription-based service need to download iTunes version 10.5.1 first, followed by parting with $25. The release is apparently slightly late, as developers initially saw this […]
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer’s claim at San Fransisco’s Web Summit 2.0 that people need to be “computer scientists” to figure out how to use Android phones spurs Techcitement contributors Matt Algren and Tom Wyrick to provide their own, sometimes conflicting, thoughts on the situation. First, the clip: [yframe url=’http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTX1e-pMN6E’] Matt: What a dumb thing to […]
[yframe url=’http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b50I0Wp3mxc’] The Sensation XL wasn’t the only phone from HTC I got to go hands-on with at CTIA 2011. I also received some play time with the Titan, their ginormous Windows 7 superphone. The phone is 4.7″ of Microsoft-powered mobile goodness. The good news is, this one has actually been announced to come out […]
Remember when Windows Phone 7 was first announced and AT&T was one of the first carriers on board? We all know their iPhone exclusivity was going to end soon, but I found it almost comical how much AT&T wanted to advertise Microsoft’s rival OS so soon. Not that I blame them, Windows Phone is so surprisingly well […]
In what is beginning to feel like something of a running joke, anti-virus company AVG apparently made an app for Windows that apparently does nothing but display ads, possibly track your location and ban the word “עברית,” which is Hebrew for Hebrew. The app in question, AVG Security Suite, is supposed to be a virus […]
If you haven’t played the original Portal, you’re missing out on one of the biggest milestones in gaming culture. But don’t panic! It’s available for free download through Steam for Mac or PC until September 20. Even if you don’t have time to play it between now and then, do yourself a favor: download […]
The Microsoft Building Windows 8 blog has announced plans for Internet Explorer 10 to jettison the ability to install plug-ins or extensions, in the Metro user-interface they’re developing for it. In its Metro form, IE 10 uses HTML5 throughout, largely negating the need for Adobe Flash and other such video plug-ins. While this may amount […]
A hacker, who goes by the name Comodohacker, claims he can now fake Microsoft updates using stolen certificates. Comodohacker is believed to be an Iranian student who made news recently for compromising and acquiring four certificate authorities from Dutch certificate authority DigiNotar as well as getting CA’s from GlobalSign. In a post to his Pastebin […]
It’s no secret that I’m a fan of cheap games (cheap indie games, specifically), but that doesn’t mean I sit around and play free tower defense games all day (well, not every day). No, sir, I still have a taste for the big expensive wow-me games, but sometimes I wish they weren’t so expensive. Today, […]
The idea of simulating an entire city on the computer has been around since at least 1987, when Maxis Software was founded and began releasing their popular Sims series. IBM now takes the idea a step further, with CityOne — a software simulation that places the user in the role of city planner, dealing with […]
