Popular short-term car rental service Zipcar sells out to rental giant Avis today, in a $500 million deal. Zipcar, founded in 2000, claims a customer base of over 760,000 users and a fleet of over 11,000 vehicles available for use in the United States, Canada, the UK, Austria and Spain. Unlike traditional rental car services, […]
Instagram updated its privacy policy and terms of service announcement on Monday with major changes that have caused many users to be up in lo-fi arms. The new policy allows the company to share information about its users with Facebook (which makes sense seeing as Facebook owns Instagram) and outside affiliates, use your pictures without […]
In these days following the brutal massacre of six adults and 20 children in Newtown, Connecticut, the National Rifle Association, America’s original gun lobby, has been unusually quiet. The lobby’s highly professional website sits without updates, its Twitter feed remains untouched, and the Facebook account reduced to a single image of the NRA logo and […]
Waiting in line just got a whole lot more fun! The good folks at Cheezburger Network have released a new Android app to view I Can Has Cheezburger?, FAIL Blog, The Daily What, and 44 more of the humor juggernaut’s meme sites. While Cheezburger previously had dedicated apps for a couple of its biggest sites, […]
Texting isn’t just about teens anymore – today is the twentieth birthday of text messaging. The quick and oft-used method of communication is all grown up, but it doesn’t show any signs of stopping. Let us reflect upon and celebrate the great gift of portable and nigh-immediate transcontinental communication in written form. The first text […]
The agony of having to collaborate with people using email attachments is widespread. You receive an email from someone with an Excel workbook attached and need to make edits before sending it back. Now, you have to save the file, make your edits, and then reattach it to a new email. I’ve done this and […]
Dear TiVo, As any of my dedicated readers know, I love your service. Shortly after my husband and I had our first child, we realized we needed a DVR if we were ever going to watch TV again, and we welcomed out first TiVo box to the family. When the Slide remote came on the […]
There’s a story spreading on Facebook and other social media about a mother who tweeted: Hashtag Jameson was born at 10oclock last night. She weys* 8pounds and I luv her so much!!!! No, I am not including a direct link or screenshot, as I do not think we should be hunting down and mocking this […]
What do you do when you have to email a billion people something they’re not going to like, but you don’t really want to hear all the bellyaching that’s bound to come your way? If you’re Facebook, you bury the bad news in the middle of the longest paragraph on the page, directly under (not […]
Every year brings new and exciting technology, and this year was no different. As it’s our job here at Techcitement to talk about tech that excites us, we thought we’d put a spotlight on that specific tech that we’re also thankful that exists. Whether it’s some tech that personally affects our daily lives or tech […]
