We here at Techcitement are thankful for a lot of things like friends, family, jobs, and pie. Oh, so much pie. What we’re most obviously thankful for is how technology has affected our lives. Here is the first part of a two-part series on what the staff of Techcitement is thankful for. Matt Algren: WordPress […]
Every night at 12:15 AM Pacific, Amazon gives away a free paid app through their Amazon app store. As I am usually awake at 12:15 AM Pacific, why not let you know if today’s app is useful, or just more clutter in your app drawer? Today’s free app is Cross Court Tennis by Refined Games Inc and usually […]
Netflix customers recently received an email about a class action suit and settlement payment from Walmart. If you’re one of the lucky customers who qualifies for the settlement, you may be wondering why you’re getting money from Walmart. A suit brought against Walmart and Netflix charges that the two companies unofficially struck a non-compete agreement to […]
Google has a history of leaving projects in beta testing for absurd lengths of time (Gmail lasted five years with a beta tag). So, when Google launched its long-awaited music service this summer under a beta tag, with the proviso that it was “free, for now” there was some concern about whether users could really […]
A lot of us are comic book fans here at Techcitement. One of our earliest posts was about DC Comics digital initiative and we just posted yesterday about the upcoming comic book industry tablet war. Now, DC ups the ante a tad. Batman Beyond, one of their first comics to go day-and-date is now going […]
Amazon’s highly anticipated Kindle Fire begins shipping this week, and that means discussion in the tech world can turn to only one thing: comic books. Fine, maybe not just one thing, but Amazon has already dramatically changed the landscape of the comic book industry without even shipping its outrageously low-priced tablet. The Fire was announced […]
Amazon charges a mere $79 for their new budget model Kindle, but according to a recent analysis from IHS iSupply, the e-reader costs approximately $84 to manufacture. Yes, that makes this Kindle $5 more to make than it costs for you to own it. Before you go wondering if Amazon’s marketing department has gone batty, remember […]
Last week, CBS CEO Les Moonves gave us an idea of his company’s attitude toward the increasing demand for online streaming of television content. On the subject of online content, Moonves had this to say (via Engadget): We — frankly, we don’t believe in them. We’re not going to go out and we’ve sort of […]
First free video, now free books. Amazon has launched their Kindle Owners’ Lending Library, available to Amazon Prime members, at no additional cost. Users may borrow select titles for an unlimited time, without due dates or extra fees. There are 5,000 available titles, and the selection seems reasonably wide, including titles from the New York Times […]
Almost immediately after Google TV’s software update added the ability to download and install custom applications, a major new capability appears by way of a Plex client. For those unfamiliar, Plex is an excellent, full-featured media server and organizer. Initially, it was developed for Mac OS X, but a Windows version is now available as […]
