Normally, we at Techcitement blanch at the thought of publicizing a company’s obvious attempt at viral-video marketing, but sometimes the stars align to make the perfect mix of humor, marketing, and startled disbelief. Such is the case with this beautifully odd video from the best terrible pizza franchise in your town, Domino’s Pizza. Now I […]
Less than a week away from the 2013 Academy Awards and ABC Digital has given film freaks, celebrity hangers-on, and even red carpet mavens an impressive mobile app that delivers an award-worthy experience. Here’s ABC’s video introduction to the app: I’ve been using the Android version of ABC’s Oscars app for several days now, and […]
Apple confirms yesterday’s acquisition of startup company Chomp, for the purpose of improving their search tools in the App Store. Chomp currently exists as a web application and an iPhone app, offering users a search tool for new applications that includes personalized recommendations and highlighting of friends’ application picks. The San Francisco-based business announced seed […]
Frank Warren, proprietor of famous blog/community art project PostSecret announced late last week that the site was permanently pulling the best-selling app from the Apple App Store. In a post on Sunday, Warren explained, saying that the decision was based on abuses of the app and threats from anonymous users. Like the PostSecret Blog, the […]
Android and iOS activation numbers have been steadily creeping up over the past 18 months or so. Andy Rubin loves updating the Android fanbase with his tweets stating daily activations; most recently, Rubin presented a 3.7 million figure for the holiday weekend (December 24 and 25). With a total of 6.8 million activations between Android […]
Apple announces a major change to their Mac App Store taking place as of March 1, 2012. As of that date, all applications will be required to run in an “App Sandbox“. Similar to existing requirements in iOS today, this amounts to a partitioned area where applications can only access system resources explicitly allowed by […]
The Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN) Building Windows 8 blog confirms that an App Store development team is among the groups working on Windows 8. This blog, kicked off on Monday, follows the general design of the Engineering Windows 7 blog created three years ago to advertise the previous Microsoft OS. President of Windows development, Steven Sinofsky, […]
Another busy week for tablets, as the market segment just keeps heating up. From the industry leader at the moment, we have some great news. Apple’s iCloud and iWork with Cloud Support have gone into Beta for developers. No news on how magical it might be just yet. Then there was Monday’s release, pull, […]
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 […]
Got no money? No problem. In honor of the third anniversary of the Apple App Store, Pangea Software is blowing out all their games for a whopping grand total of nada. Nothing. Zip. If you give them the lint in your empty pocket, you are giving them too much in exchange for their goods and […]
