Why I’m Not Typing This On A TouchPad
I love HP’s WebOS. I love the smooth multitasking, the great apps, the PIM solutions, the card metaphor, and pretty much everything else. It’s easy for me to talk for hours about how great the platform is and how it deserves wider attention. I can pontificate about having actual access to my filesystem and being […]
Opening The “Bag Of Hurt” With Blu-ray Discs And Mac OS X
Despite Apple Macs still not including Blu-ray disc capable drives and Steve Jobs’s famous statement from late 2008, claiming the technology amounted to a “bag of hurt”, OS X users are finding a growing number of options for using the media with their systems. For quite a while now, Blu-ray capable players and recorders have […]
Hackers Take Down The World
There’s been a bit of an uptick in stories about hackers lately. Be it a massive bank falling prey to a basic security exploit, a major electronics vendor losing their gaming network, or someone trying to excuse his inappropriate online behavior on them, hackers are everywhere. This time the victim is the 163-year-old newspaper, News […]
Amazon Cloud Rains Free Unlimited Music Storage
Mobile cloud music is a highly competitive arena these days, and some of the biggest players in mobile and music have entered the game. Even a few surprising entries are trying to build a business in the newest entertainment space. Amazon made a big splash when they launched their cloud player with virtually no warning, […]
BREAKING NEWS: Facebook Launches Skype Video, Group Chat
In a live event this afternoon, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg unveiled a set of “awesome” new features centered on chat. He broke the announcement down into three areas: group chat, the chat interface, and video chat. Facebook has had groups available for a year, and in that time, 50 percent of its users have become […]
Google Rebrands Popular Services To Boost Google+
According to Ben Parr at Mashable, Google intends to rebrand several of their popular products, including the Picasa photo manager software and their Blogger product. Picasa will become “Google Photos”, while Blogger gets renamed “Google Blogs”. The word is other products will be renamed as well, but Google intends to leave YouTube alone. (They already […]
Fireside Chats 2.0 – Tweet With President Obama At 2 PM ET
If there’s one job that’s been tweaked time and again by new technologies, it’s the President of the United States. Now, the Obama Administration takes the townhall model of interacting with the public to Twitter with the first ever Twitter @Townhall. While the actual White House uses lots of archaic tech, past administrations have embraced […]
Google+ Wants The World To Know About You
Google+ profiles offer a lot of flexibility when it comes to privacy, but there are three pieces of information on them that are open to the public. Your name, gender, and profile picture are visible not just to your Circles and Google+ users, but the entire internet. That information shows up through Google’s own search […]
SnApp Judgments: Convertr
Every night at 12:15 AM Pacific, Amazon gives away a free paid app through their Amazon app store. As I am usually awake at 12:15 AM Pacific, why not let you know if today’s app is useful, or just more clutter in your app drawer? Today’s app is Convertr by Vervv LLC, which usually costs a whopping […]
Voice of Objectivity: Why Can’t I Escape My Phone Carrier?
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 […]