Today, Google made a formal announcement with Austin, TX Mayor Lee Leffingwell that Google Fiber is indeed coming to the state capital in mid-2014. Google cites Austin’s rich artistic community and tech companies that fill the city, along with the University of Texas and the schools new medical research hospital. Kansas City became the first […]
When Marvel made the announcement during SXSW that the company was opening its library to readers for access to over 700 free first issues, the rush of people ended up causing ComiXology’s servers to crash. The entertainment juggernaut hopes to have different results this time and seeks to do so by instituting a registration policy […]
The idea that cable companies are regularly losing viewers to the increasing number of streaming options open to them isn’t a new one. However, Netflix strengthens those theories with each new announcement of a television series, comedy special, or exclusive feature. By now, if you’re a Netflix user, you’ve at least heard of House of […]
April Fools’ Day has become a time when corporations let their marketing and creative departments loose to create online trickery and fake headlines with the orders of, “Make this go viral.” It’s also the time of year when many people refuse to check their email, get on Facebook, log on to Twitter, and now avoid […]
Some point in the late 1990s during one late Sunday night in Brixton, South London, I was waiting on a bus to go home. A guy came up to me, mumbling. I became nervous. Was he a nutter about to stab me? He had a hood on and it was drizzling lightly, if I recall […]
Without any fanfare, Tumblr managed to tick up to and past the 100 million blog mark this week. The burgeoning internet giant, founded in 2007 by David Karp, has gone on to have more than 44.6 billion posts by its many users. Blogs range from the celebrity-run kind to social movements to fandom-obsessed (Hello, Whovians, […]
It’s undeniable that Joseph Gordon-Levitt has become an entertainment powerhouse in the last few years. Most known for his appearance in movies such as Looper, The Dark Knight Rises, 50/50, Inception, JGL recently made his full-length feature directorial and screenwriting debut with Don Jon. The quickly rising star (who’s been rising since before he had […]
We here at Techcitement Towers love Minecraft. If we ever want to destroy a weekend, we set out to build a geodesic dome out of multicolored wool. We dig trenches that spell out our sweetheart’s name or dynamite holes to the center of the planet. What is this Minecraft of which you speak? It sounds […]
To help capture and build on the excitement generated by the upcoming release of Star Trek Into Darkness (May 17, 2013), Hulu is offering every single episode of every live-action Star Trek series to date for free. Whether your favorite captian is Kirk, Picard, Sisko, Janeway, or even Archer, you can revisit every incarnation of […]
The show may have lasted only four seasons, but DuckTales firmly entrenched itself into the American subconscious during its short run from 1987 to 1990. Disney’s after school show featured the globe-trotting adventures of Uncle Scrooge, Huey, Dewey, and Louie, Scrooge’s pilot Launchpad McQuack (who later starred in the other Disney favorite Darkwing Duck), the […]
