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Domino’s Pizza + Singing Anime Character = Hypnotically Awkward Video

Matt Algren — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 16:00:54 +0000

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 […]

ABC Has An Award-Worthy Oscars App For Android, iOS, And Kindle

Matt Algren — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 19:00:54 +0000

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 Chomps Up Chomp

Tom Wyrick — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 18:47:19 +0000

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 […]

Some Secrets Shouldn’t Be Shared: PostSecret iPhone App Pulled From App Store

Matt Algren — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 21:07:49 +0000

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 […]

Smartphone Activations: Death Of Feature Phones

Reuven Shechter — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 15:15:04 +0000

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 […]

Mac App Store Announces Lockdown

Tom Wyrick — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 06:10:43 +0000

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 […]

Microsoft Stealthily Confirms App Store For Windows 8

Tom Wyrick — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 14:10:34 +0000

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, […]

Tablet Thursday Digest: Android And iOS And WebOS, Oh My!

Mordechai Osdoby — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 16:46:37 +0000

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, […]

Amazon Policies Cause Seller Anger And Abandonment

Tom Wyrick — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 14:22:50 +0000

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 […]

All Pangea Software Games Free Today Only On Apple App Store

Jeremy Goldstone — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 19:39:56 +0000

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 […]