Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer acted as the keynote speaker for the first day of CES 2012, with Ryan Seacrest as his co-host/interviewer. What an awkward combination! Thankfully, what they discussed was more interesting than that bizarre pairing. The new phones look beautiful (HTC Titan II with no specific release date, Nokia 710 and 800 in Canada […]
Ah, January, when a young geek’s thoughts turn to Vegas and the International Consumer Electronics Show (commonly known as CES). If the San Deigo Comic Con is Nerd Prom, then CES is Geek Cotillion. It’s your chance to find out what’s coming in 2012 and the best part is that Techcictement is there! Writer […]
Wi3 hopes to change how you think about networking in the home or office. The company’s WiPNET line of products allows you to use existing coaxial cabling in your home to connect devices to the internet using a high-speed network most houses already have. This is an industry standard called Multimedia over Coax (MoCA). Even […]
Live hot sweaty teens are ready to get it on just for you! Assuming that you happen to be a sociologist working for Ericsson, anyway. The Sony-affiliated cell phone manufacturer has released the results of a study focusing on the dating habits of American teenagers and how their romantic entanglements intersect with technology. It turns […]
Thanks to Wikileaks’s distribution of diplomatic cables between the United States and Spain, we now know that the U.S. government heavily influenced the drafting of Spain’s copyright legislation. Now, a leaked letter, dated December 12, 2011, indicates the U.S. ambassador’s anger towards the Spanish Prime Minister’s office for failing to pass the Sinde Law, a […]
Years ago, friends and I were talking about how the price of DVD players coming down and how long it would be until we could afford to buy one. One bright fellow in the group said he’d buy one eventually, but that wasn’t where technology was stopping. No, he said, it wouldn’t be too many […]
According to Regretsy, the seller of an antique French violin on eBay is now out both the instrument and the $2,500 she received for the initial sale. Erica claims she sold the pre-WWII era French violin to a buyer in Canada, who then disputed the authenticity of the instrument. As would be understandable under the […]
On December 8, 2011, the Tennessee National Guard, The Jason Foundation, Inc, and E4 Health launched Guard Your Buddy, a charter anti-suicide app aimed at helping struggling soldiers contemplating suicide, as well as their families, friends, and fellow guardsmen. In addition to the app, the collaborative group launched a website, complete with the same contact […]
Popular web hosting service and domain registrar, Go Daddy, reverses their initial stance supporting SOPA, after losing over 21,000 domains on Friday alone. Angry customers flocked to other registrars in droves over the weekend, when word got around that the company officially supported the proposed legislation. Other high-profile customers threatened to leave, including Wikipedia’s co-founder […]
Facebook’s new Timeline profile structure became available for everyone late last week and for the first time in a long time, I’m actually psyched about a Facebook decision. Timeline was introduced back in September, but now it’s available to everyone. In case you haven’t seen the new design yet, here’s Facebook’s introduction video. [yframe url=’http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_KzeEWewXU’] […]
