Happy Twentieth Birthday, World Wide Web
Today marks the twentieth birthday of the world wide web project. The concept was invented by Physicist Tim Berners-Lee in 1989 at the CERN laboratories in Geneva, Switxerland, but the web wasn’t put into the public domain until April 30, 1993. It was this making the technology available and royalty-free, along with a code library […]
Digital Darwinism As AOL Shuts Down Once Thriving Sites
There was a day when AOL served as the gateway to the internet for the average user. However, time went on and the web portal was reduced from must have, to training wheels, to an object of derision. While the media giant remains a massive company by most standards, it’s an absolute shadow of what […]
All My Children And One Life To Live Get Second Lives On Hulu And iTunes
Bastard children. Weddings. Slaps. Illicit affairs. Gun shots. Weddings. Sexy senior citizens. Pregnant teenagers. Murder. Conspiracies. Weddings. Alien abductions. Meeting God. These are all most likely words that took up space on whiteboards brainstorming sessions in the writers’ rooms of All My Children and One Life to Live. Well, it looks like the shows themselves […]
Google Now For iOS Now
Google has finally taken the cool but creepy Google Now application and put it on a non-Android platform. Starting today, iOS users can download an update to the Google Search app that adds some of the amazing functions of Google predictive personal assistant. What is Google Now anyway, you ask? It’s a system where Google’s various services […]
Durex Fundawear Lets You Feel Something Besides Yourself
Long-distance relationships aren’t easy. Besides the emotional hardship and psychologically taxing times, there’s the basic physical component that couples sorely miss out on. Sure, there are late night phone calls, which have been replaced by FaceTime and Skype for virtual sexy times, but that’s a poor substitute for the real physical touch of another person. […]
Google, You’re Not (Alone) In Kansas Anymore
With all the hype circulating over Google’s gigabit fiber rollout, it’s easy to forget that availability remains somewhat limited in the cities scheduled for the service. Despite Olathe, Westwood, Westwood Hills and Mission Hills, Kansas on the short list for Google Fiber, nearby Lawrence (about 29 miles from Olathe) isn’t scheduled for coverage. In what […]
When Crowdsourcing Goes Wrong
The body of Brown University student Sunil Tripathi has been confirmed found in the water near Indian Point Park in Providence, Rhode Island. While this might provide closure for Tripathi’s family, who have searched for him since mid-March, it’s also a potent reminder of how wrong Reddit users were when they falsely accused him of being […]
Microsoft Tablet Market Share Multitasks By Increasing While Disappointing
Microsoft has found itself in an interesting situation by going from having a zero percent market share in tablets to having a 7.5 percent share, according to market research analyst company Strategy Analytics. That sounds wonderful, until you see that Apple maintained a previous percentage of 48 percent and Android’s numbers depend on if you count only […]
Kick Karaoke Butt With The Just Sing It! App
You may not have Blake Shelton, Usher, Shakira, or Adam Levine fighting over you on The Voice, but that doesn’t stop you from belting out tunes. Now, with the Just Sing It! iOS app, you can hold your own singing competitions with friends to find out which one of you is the best karaoke singer. […]
Microsoft To Reveal The Next Xbox On May 21
Microsoft spokesperson/blogger/PR flack Larry “Major Nelson” Hryb has announced that the latest incarnation of the Xbox will be revealed on Tuesday, May 21 at 1:00 PM Eastern Time. The media event will be streamed live on Xbox.com and broadcast on Spike TV. Naturally, you’ll be able to keep up with the news here on Techcitement […]