Google To Sell Digital Textbooks Dirt Cheap
Google made several big announcements yesterday, and while most people (including yours truly) are excited about the second generation Nexus 7 and Chromecast, Google announced another service that has the potential to be a major game changer for education. Google Textbooks will launch in early August 2013, just in time for the start of classes. […]
New Nexus 7 Shows Up On Best Buy Early
That the third generation of Google’s Nexus tablet is on the way isn’t exactly the most well-kept secret. The specs are already out there, with little apparent difference from the previous Nexus 7 other than running Android 4.3. It’s unlikely that OS upgrade will be the only difference, but there’s no way of knowing. […]
New Motorola Phones Come In Mini, Maxi, And Ultra
The relationship between Motorola and Verizon has been pretty successful, to the point that the Droid branding used by the two companies has reached almost Kleenex/Band-Aid ubiquity. Yet in recent years, the bulk of the Android market has belonged to other device manufacturers. Verizon hosted a press event earlier today to unleash three brand new […]
Voice of Objectivity: New Smartphone Upgrade Options Are A Good Deal
The U.S. mobile industry has seen an interesting change in the last few weeks. Three of the big four carriers now offer plans that let you upgrade your phone more often than the standard two years. They sure do sound exciting, with names like Edge, Next, and especially JUMP! (with caps and punctuation included in […]
Lenovo IdeaCentre Horizon: A Little Bit Of Everything
“Hey Ari, could you review Lenovo’s Table PC?” “Sure. What’s a Table PC?” The Lenovo IdeaCentre Horizon is a Table PC, so let’s start there. The IdeaCentre Horizon combines aspects of PCs, laptops, and tablets to create an interesting fusion experience. Lenovo hopes to bring the best of all three worlds into one tidy package. […]
Review: Lenovo Yoga 11S Bends Over Backwards To Please
Lenovo 11S is the computing company’s second Yoga model. The first, which sported a 13″ screen, was an interesting device. Yoga’s design is unique for a tablet/laptop hybrid in that it bends backwards to close instead of popping off or twisting. Techcitement went hands on with the original Yoga, but never got a chance to […]
SDCC: Firefly MMO Announced, Chutzpah Unintentionally Defined
Ah, San Diego Comic Con. The place where a nerd can be a nerd, a cosplayer can be a cosplayer, and small fuzzy things from Alpha Centauri can be small fuzzy things from Alpha Centauri. As someone who has never attended SDCC, there are two different things I specifically look out for every year. The […]
Last Chance To Rescue Your Google Reader Data
Nearly two weeks have passed since Google shut down Reader, the company’s popular RSS feed reading service. While users who relied on Reader for daily (or if you’re like me, hourly) updates from their favorite websites have migrated to other services by now, there may be a few stragglers who haven’t made the move yet. […]
Review: Lenovo’s Thinkpad Helix — The Evolution Of Windows 8 You’ve Been Waiting For?
The Lenovo ThinkPad Helix is Lenovo’s attempt at providing a convertible product that can do it all. This 11.6 inch tablet laptop hybrid packs a full Ivy Bridge Core i5 processor in a moderately light package, but it unfortunately comes without the battery enhancements of Intel’s latest Haswell digs. The tablet itself weighs 1.8 pouns, […]
Do This: Type The Konami Code While On Vogue’s UK Website
It may be a statement on the fashion industry’s predilection to return to previous fashion trends. It might be a comment on the assumed need for fashion models to look a certain way being an outdated idea. Or it could be that someone on Vogue’s website staff is a fan of old school video games. […]