The world’s most popular website for, what a professor of mine once called “largely unreliable,” online reference material is facing a dilemma: fewer people are interested in contributing to it and editing it. Wikipedia is considered largely reliable by the online community and tends to have a lot of self-monitoring. However, those numbers have been […]
From our “sure took them long enough” department: The New York Daily News is reporting that the NYPD has a new “social media unit” to keep watch for chatter of nefarious doings on social networks such as Facebook and Twitter. Using popular networking sites to bust ne’er-do-wells is not exactly new. If you type “Facebook […]
I’ve been petty rough on Facebook’s Android messaging in the past, but it looks like things may be about to change. Courtesy of the developers from group messaging app Beluga, which Facebook acquired in March, Facebook has released a new dedicated messaging app for Android and iOS today. The app has more in common with […]
Yesterday, Facebook’s Security Department was contacted by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR). No, it’s not because of the social network’s obtrusive new chat layout, but it does have to do with growing concerns over security and privacy issues in a tangential way. The CDDR requested that any Facebook accounts set up or […]
After deleting the latest batch of junk mail full of random paragraphs lifted from fiction novels and purposely misspelled words to slip them past filters, did you ever start wondering who is really making enough money with spam to justify the effort? According to anti-virus software manufacturer F-Secure, a large percentage of the products advertised […]
Time for Olde Tyme Techcitement, where we take a look back at technology relics. It’s basically your grampa talking about the good old days, but sooner and totally more reasonable than dumb boring stories about how all this used to be farmland. Remember the days of the early internet when you could pretty much count […]
Skype released version 2.1 of their video-enabled Android software this morning, bringing more supported devices with it this time.
App developer Shifty Jelly complains about Amazon’s business practices related to their App Store, in one of the latest stories of angry sellers who wind up selling elsewhere. His/her grudge? Apparently, Amazon’s popular Free App of the Day promotion doesn’t compensate developers a single cent when a given app is featured. (Whether this affects Techcitement’s […]
Online auction giant eBay remedies their growing problem meeting I/O storage requirements with an investment in 100 terabytes of solid state disk storage. Manager of QA Systems Administration, Michael Craft, says “One rack [of SSD storage] is equal to eight or nine racks of something else.” eBay not only saves a considerable amount of physical […]
UPDATE: It’s all a bizarre hoax. Techcitement is keeping this story up to show we can fall victims to this weird prank just as well as Gawker, CNN, and the BBC (who have removed the article from their site). Plus, Jon still thinks IE users are dumb and we think the image of the browser […]
