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 […]
Funny Or Die has scooped the major networks with a new call for relief for those so unjustly affected by the Netflix price increase. Jason Alexander lends his voice to this important cause. People just like me would really appreciate your financial assistance right now. I’ll have to spend an extra five dollars a month […]
Photo blog/community art project Dear Photograph just opened two months ago, and already it’s taken the internet by storm. With a mix of past and present evoking memory for the individual and a surprisingly universal longing for days gone by, it also gives us a chance to study the different technology used by submitters.
You know how we were saying Facebook needed to get their Android act together? It gets a tad worse. Bad enough that it looked like Facebook was going to make hardware makers look into their own app solutions (ala HP and WebOS), now it looks more like it’s actually aimed at Android. That’s right, Android […]
