Apple’s Siri application and her Android competition have been on my radar for a few months now, but somehow I managed to miss the commercial that Apple released several weeks ago. [yframe url=’http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-G8fG1bKgQo’] Smart of them to go for the youth market, but somehow this tongue-in-cheek (and a bit NSFW) remix by Matt Binder does […]
What happens when an active duty Army Staff Sergeant creates a smartphone app built on the idea of killing homeless people? Late last week, Vice’s Jamie Lee Curtis Taete wrote about a horrid new Android app called HoboHunt. Basically, it’s a simple photo sharing app with the sickening hook of sending pictures of homeless people […]
Podcasts are great. Google is great. Google Listen, the company’s podcast player for Android, is not. Since its lackluster introduction in August 2009, Google has left Listen twisting in the wind with only extremely rare and inconsequential updates. Listen barely does the basic task it’s created for, and it’s far overdue for some TLC. The […]
On Wednesday, the Associated Press’s Tom Odula reported an interesting mobile development in Kenya. It seems that Francis Kariuki, the town administrative chief of Lanet Umoja, Kenya uses his Twitter account to communicate with people in town, most unconventionally to stop crime. Kariuki said that even the thieves in his village follow him on Twitter. […]
Time for Olde Tyme Techcitement, where we take a look back at technology relics. It’s basically your grampa talking about the good old days, but sooner and totally more reasonable than dumb boring stories about how all this used to be farmland. It’s hard to believe 30 years have passed since Kodak attempted a revolution […]
It’s only been four months since Iris, the leading imitator of Apple’s Siri, was released to the Android Market, and Dexetra, the app’s developer, has a lot to crow about. The company claims to serve up to a million answers every day, and the number only seems to be increasing. Fortunately, the fledgling company and […]
The big social media news this week goes to Facebook. Officials from the world’s biggest social network released required financial documents Wednesday in preparation for the company’s initial public offering (IPO) in a few months, which will transition the company from a privately held firm to a publicly traded company. This is the first time […]
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 […]
You’ve probably been to a forest or maybe a natural history museum and seen the rings on a tree stump, one ring for every year. You’ve seen them, felt them, and possibly even smelled them. Well, now you can hear them too. Using a modified turntable, a computer, and some other basic supplies, German artist/engineer […]
The internet’s back on. Everybody okay? No lost limbs? Good. A lot has happened in the last 24 hours since Wikipedia, Reddit, and many other powerful websites went dark to protest SOPA and PIPA. Let’s take a look at the developments, but first a new short video released by New Left Media explaining why PIPA […]
