Mobile cloud music is a highly competitive arena these days, and some of the biggest players in mobile and music have entered the game. Even a few surprising entries are trying to build a business in the newest entertainment space. Amazon made a big splash when they launched their cloud player with virtually no warning, […]
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BREAKING NEWS: Facebook Launches Skype Video, Group Chat
In a live event this afternoon, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg unveiled a set of “awesome” new features centered on chat. He broke the announcement down into three areas: group chat, the chat interface, and video chat. Facebook has had groups available for a year, and in that time, 50 percent of its users have become […]
Google+ Wants The World To Know About You
Google+ profiles offer a lot of flexibility when it comes to privacy, but there are three pieces of information on them that are open to the public. Your name, gender, and profile picture are visible not just to your Circles and Google+ users, but the entire internet. That information shows up through Google’s own search […]
Voice of Objectivity: Why Can’t I Escape My Phone Carrier?
Voice of Objectivity is an ongoing column meant to temper the tendency of the Techcited to run away with the most exciting or controversial ideas in technology’s near future. The opinions presented here do not necessarily represent the views of Techcitement or this writer. Someone’s got to keep a cool head around here. I guess […]
Google+ Receives An A+ For Privacy Controls
The last year has seen concerns over privacy on Facebook rise to new heights. Every new feature seems to be designed to automatically share more user information, on an opt-out basis, and the controls that let users opt out of services they never wanted to be a part of are buried under layer after layer […]
Look Out Facebook, Here Comes Google+
Google doesn’t have the best history when it comes to their attempts at social networking. There was Orkut, a social network that never took off, which actually predates Facebook, and was designed as a competitor to Friendster. Then, there was the disastrous launch of Buzz. I was never quite sure which was more fatal to this […]
Voice of Objectivity: Give LastPass a Break
Voice of Objectivity is an ongoing column meant to temper the tendency of the Techcited to run away with the most exciting or controversial ideas in technology’s near future. The opinions presented here do not necessarily represent the views of Techcitement or this writer. Someone’s got to keep a cool head around here. I guess […]
Sony Music Unlimited, Isn’t.
Last week, Sony released an Android app for its streaming music service, Music Unlimited powered by Qriocity (not the shortest name in the industry, that’s for sure). Until now the service has been available only on computers and Sony internet-connected devices, like the PS3, but the new app puts it in direct competition with a […]
PriceAdvice, the New Place to Buy Used Stuff
Yesterday saw the launch of the brand new startup PriceAdvice, which has a unique twist on the concept of deal hunting. Not only does the self-proclaimed “virtual blue book” site give you an overview of what the typical price range is on the device you’re looking for by combining information from a variety of different […]
SugarSync for Mobile Getting Desktop Management
I’m a big fan of file syncing service SugarSync. The 5 GB of free online storage had me happy from day one. Being able to easily send files of any size to others via email, even if they don’t use the service, has been invaluable. And the fact that, unlike competitor Dropbox, SugarSync allows me […]