Ah, temptation. You see a device just sitting there, say an iPhone, so you decide to swipe it. Except, it turns out that you’re not too technically inclined, and you don’t take the time to erase it. Unbeknownst to you, the iPhone starts saving the photos you’re snapping to the original owner’s PhotoStream. Oops. According […]
I’m not usually the go-to guy to talk about the stock market, but allow me to quietly guffaw at Facebook’s disastrous second day on Monday as the newly-public company’s stock lost 10.99 percent of its price at the end of trading on Friday. Making matters worse, Friday’s closing price was reportedly artificially pumped up by […]
That’s right. Verizon will let you keep your unlimited data, but only if you purchase phones for their full retail prices. As Techcitement discussed earlier, Verizon plans to force its customers to change to a new tiered data plan when upgrading after new shared data plans become available mid-summer this year. Verizon won’t automatically move […]
It’s a big day, geeks. This is the day Facebook finally goes public. Yes, at 9:30 AM EDT today, the initial public offering that so many have been waiting for becomes a reality. Trading is slated to start at a mere $38 a share, but expect it to jump like nuts when the floor actually […]
Is Google+ failing? Google has been pushing Google+ since its release, trying to quash the Facebook behemoth before it becomes too big to stop. Google+ has great apps for iOS and Android, awesome features like Hangouts with multiple people, and grew at an exponential rate. But based on personal observation and a new report from […]
It’s been a month since the popular news reader app Read It Later was rebuilt and rebranded as Pocket. The app is also now free with the change, so if you’ve been staying away from Read It Later because of the $2.99 price tag, now’s your chance. I’ve been using it for a few weeks […]
UPDATE: No. No, he did not. Oops. … Original story: Abraham Lincoln. The Great Emancipator. The sixteenth president of the United States of America. Creator of Facebook and social media. Creator of Facebook? And you thought Mark Zuckerberg had to worry about the Winklevoss twins coming after him, try the guy who won the Civil […]
Last week, Yoni Gross wrote an article comparing four different storage cloud vendors, including the long-awaited Google Drive. All of them have their strengths and weaknesses, with their own devoted followers. Personally, I’ve been using Dropbox for several years. I started with the free 2 GB, and through referrals and the doubling of the referral bonus, […]
Filipino hacker Gwapo reports a booming business selling his services flooding specific websites with Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks. Gwapo’s business launched in January on Hack Forums, and so far, the 24 year old claims he services “several huge companies daily” who pay him to attack competitors. The capitalistic hacker even offers a five-minute […]
For the past six months, I’ve been getting addicted to my Roku-enhanced television. It’s been years now since I cancelled my cable service and I rarely miss it, especially with the abundance of old TV shows streaming to my Roku from Netflix. Still, we live in a “grass is always greener” culture, and I’ve begun […]
