The last year has seen concerns over privacy on Facebook rise to new heights. Every new feature seems to be designed to automatically share more user information, on an opt-out basis, and the controls that let users opt out of services they never wanted to be a part of are buried under layer after layer […]
Today marks the first day Amazon.com would have been required to start charging California customers a 7.25% base sales tax on their purchases, after Governor Jerry Brown signed a new piece of legislation to that effect two days ago. The catch? The justification for requiring this state sales tax hinged on the fact that Amazon […]
If you’ve been following the news recently, you’ve probably seen at least a mention of bitcoin. The latest was negative press about hackers compromising a major Bitcoin trading web site and plunging the value of the virtual coinage from around $17.50 per coin to around one cent. But what’s the fascination with bitcoin and is […]
Google doesn’t have the best history when it comes to their attempts at social networking. There was Orkut, a social network that never took off, which actually predates Facebook, and was designed as a competitor to Friendster. Then, there was the disastrous launch of Buzz. I was never quite sure which was more fatal to this […]
You may have missed it, but Microsoft has been running a beta of their own online office suite, called Office 365, for the last year. Yesterday, it officially lost the beta tag. There are some great features, but here’s the catch – unlike Google Docs, you pay for Office 365. To be honest, my first […]
Do you love Google? Google sure hopes you do. Although it hasn’t been announced anywhere, go to www.wdyl.com or google.com/whatdoyoulove, type in a search string, and it creates a sort of mini-portal where it runs the search through every Google product. So, instead of individually having to look up a Google Map, YouTube, Trend, and photo album […]
Voice of Objectivity is an ongoing column meant to temper the tendency of the Techcited to run away with the most exciting or controversial ideas in technology’s near future. The opinions presented here do not necessarily represent the views of Techcitement or this writer. Someone’s got to keep a cool head around here. I guess […]
Is Facebook the future of blogs? One local news blog seems to think so. According to the Washington Post, rockvillecentral.com, a website focusing on local news in Rockville, MD, has ditched its website in favor of existing solely on Facebook. This is not the same thing as if a major news source – let’s say, […]
Each Segues column starts with something tech-related before quickly branching out from there into a tangentially related thread. These articles are born from my thought and speech patterns that regularly contain quickfire transitions. For one of my birthdays, a friend made me a crown that said “King of the Segues”. Actually, it said “King of […]
Odds are that by the time you read the words “Human Resources”, your attention has already moved elsewhere. However, despite the relative disinterest and disdain that some have for HR Departments, you can’t really ignore that HR is a billion dollar industry. For those with any sort of interest in the HR business, the name […]
