The biggest plus of a service like Virgin Mobile is that you can save a lot of money using no-contract phone service, as long as you pay up-front for a phone. The biggest minus, however, is that the available phones were not much to write home about. Sure, the HTC Wildfire and Motorola Triumph are […]
Microsoft’s announcement of its Surface tablets left many consumers and original equipment manufacturers (such as Acer, Dell, and HP) perplexed. Why would Microsoft seek to cannibalize its own partners’ sales of Windows 8 and Windows RT tablets? This development was at the very least surprising, and at most, a direct attack on the companies who […]
In an announcement on the official Google blog, the company announced Friday its plan to kill Google Listen and immediately removed the long-suffering podcast app from Google Play search results. We launched Google Listen through Google Labs in August 2009, to give people a way to discover and listen to podcasts. However, with Google Play, […]
All last week, Techcitement ran a special giveaway for commenters on our Facebook page. The winner would receive a GelaSkins gift card valued at $60. Today, we announced the winner, one Chris Allen, for his long and detailed response to our article on Marissa Mayer, the recently-appointed CEO of Yahoo. Here’s a snippet of what […]
With days left before the opening ceremonies at the 2012 London Olympics, NBC and Adobe has made their Olympics Android apps available to a wider (but still not universal) audience. You might want to hold off on celebrating, though. The predictable basics (schedules, results, breaking updates) are present, but past that, both the main NBC […]
With just days left before the opening of the 2012 Olympic games in London, it’s time to get your mobile devices ready. NBC, which again has the exclusive United States broadcasting rights to the games, has partnered with Adobe to release two separate Android apps to augment its official coverage. The main app, NBC Olympics, […]
Here’s an unlikely scenario: say you’ve been using a PalmOS device for all these years. Never mind how you managed to miss just about every modern operating system — maybe you work in an industry that standardized on it or you didn’t have an upgrade credit for six years — what do you do when […]
Every night at 3:15 AM Eastern, Amazon gives away a free paid app through its Amazon app store. I let you know if today’s app is useful or more clutter in your app drawer that just plain isn’t worth downloading. Today’s free app of the day is Flick Kick Rugby, a game in which you […]
In my GelaSkins review that went up last Wednesday, we dropped a bit at the end about how you can win yourself a $60 gift card for a few of these great skins and cases. The rules are simple. Like Techcitement on Facebook. Leave a comment. That’s it. End of rules. On Friday afternoon (July […]
The Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G (clearly another victim of the Android Phone Name Generator) is billed as a mid-range alternative to the Galaxy S II. Normally, I’m not a huge fan of mid-range phones, because they tend to be sad, underpowered compromises that trade performance in favor of a cheaper handset price. That’s why […]
