Peek Reminds Us About The Catch Of Lifelong Service
For those unfamiliar with Peek, the device was meant to be an email-only handheld, and the company eventually added a second device that exclusively worked on Twitter too. Peek’s service was provided via T-Mobile’s network and you could even buy a lifelong service plan for $299. The thing about lifelong coverage is it refers to […]
MegaRetrieval Causes Tearful Reunion For Users And Lost Megaupload Files
Did you store personal files or other legitimate content on Megaupload before the FBI seized the service and shut them down? It looks like your window of opportunity to recover it is now open! Carpathia hosting, one of two services formerly powering the Megaupload site, just created MegaRetrieval in partnership with the EFF. This site […]
How Cheap Are Your Ethics?
At what dollar amount would you sell your concern for others? As American consumers, we unknowingly do so every day, in myriad ways. While some shocking cases of sweatshops have come to light over the years, the average person doesn’t put much thought into who creates the products they use. Or, more importantly, how. In […]
CES 2012 Videos: AKG And AfterShokz Open Your Ears
CES 2012 may be over, but Techcitement still has media from the show for you to eat up. There are always new audio devices being shown off at CES, and here is a look at two companies approaching getting music into your head from two different directions — going for super high quality or vibrating […]
British Teens Threaten To “Destroy America”
Twitter is a powerful tool. It can be used for good or for evil. Whether to enlighten the masses as to who JBieb’s latest crush is or for potential GOP candidates to spew nonsense about whatever they desire, tweeting is an extremely influential social media tool and, sometimes, weapon. As is the current trend of […]
FBI Validates Supreme Court Concerns Over Privacy
On January 23, the U.S. Supreme Court issued three concurring opinions in U.S. versus Jones, two of which express strong concerns about government use of ostensibly public information about private citizens. As it turns out, the FBI hasn’t been idle either, and the Supreme Court’s worries aren’t at all theoretical. On January 19, the FBI […]
Taste The New Delicious
It’s been four months since we checked in on the new owners of Delicious. After playing around with the site since some big updates rolled out late last week, let’s see how the new service is doing. First of all, the whole site has been redesigned from the ground up, as you can see from […]
Newt Gingrich + Moon = ???
Twenty-four men have been to the moon; of those 24, only 12 have ever walked on the surface, and, even in his alternate history novels, none of them was Newt Gingrich. This didn’t stop Gingrich from making absurd promises to a gathering of 700 space industry employees and their families this past Wednesday on Florida’s […]
Symantec Advises Against Using Their Own Product
In a security white paper Symantec published on Wednesday, the company recommends suspending use of their popular remote control product, PC Anywhere, until a complete set of update patches are released. The issue stems from hacker collective Anonymous’s claims of obtaining Symantec’s source code for the product back in 2006. Symantec advises that Norton Antivirus […]
Dozens Rejoice As HP Details Plans For Open Source WebOS
When HP announced that they’d make webOS open source, they neglected details of any kind. Instead, we got the usual “in the coming months” vagueness, the sort of thing that helped bring webOS to the strong market presence it has now. Color me surprised, because today HP released a detailed road map for their […]