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CES 2015 Brings The Nostalgia Factor With Polaroid, Sony, Dell, And Palm

Mordechai Osdoby — Thu, 08 Jan 2015 16:33:49 +0000

You may have noticed a lack of CES 2015 coverage on Techcitement. To be honest, it’s all been a bit overwhelming. So far, many of our favorite companies have announced impressive new devices. We’re dying to test them all. One thing that’s struck us is how many devices at an event that looks at upcoming […]

Everyone Else Is Doing It: BlackBerry Goes Up For Sale With Intention Of Going Private

Mordechai Osdoby — Wed, 25 Sep 2013 15:18:28 +0000

Earlier in the month, Microsoft purchased Nokia. Not long after, computer giant Dell was sold back to the company’s founder. These were both expected, synergistic moves that made sense for all involved. Now, another long-rumored sale is coming to light as BlackBerry has entered an agreement to sell to Fairfax Financial. Fairfax is already the single […]

Michael Dell Buys His Own Company Back

Mordechai Osdoby — Thu, 12 Sep 2013 19:44:59 +0000

It’s weird to think of now, but Dell Computer was crazy geeky once upon a time. Starting out in Michael Dell’s dorm room, his fledgling enterprise made him enough scratch that he could quit college and focus on computers full time. At one time seeing itself as the average consumer’s company of choice, Dell the […]

Dell XPS 18 Brings New Form, But Does It Function?

Mordechai Osdoby — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 14:00:13 +0000

These days, it’s pretty standard to see new, touchable all-in-one (AiO) devices from companies like HP, Sony, and Dell. It helps that Microsoft is banking on touch capabilities in Windows 8, and that there is a large, young generation for workers used to touchable smartphones and adjusting to tablets. Dell has upped the ante just […]

Dell IFA Roundup: Can Dell Finally Make A Go Of Tablets?

Mordechai Osdoby — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 17:15:58 +0000

Back in April, I was fairly harsh on Dell for dropping out of the tablet race. The massive PC maker had promised to come back late this year, and it looks like IFA is going to be a coming out party for the new devices. Except there’s not a true tablet in the bunch, and […]

Acer’s CEO Has Fighting Words For Microsoft’s Surface

Reuven Shechter — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 18:53:48 +0000

Microsoft’s announcement of its Surface tablets left many consumers and original equipment manufacturers (such as Acer, Dell, and HP) perplexed. Why would Microsoft seek to cannibalize its own partners’ sales of Windows 8 and Windows RT tablets? This development was at the very least surprising, and at most, a direct attack on the companies who […]

Dell Says One Screen Is Enough For Anyone

Mordechai Osdoby — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 19:00:15 +0000

Remember Steve Jobs’s “third screen” conceptualization of a tablet? In a nutshell, the idea is that the average user goes from their first screen, a desktop or laptop, to their second screen, a smartphone. Jobs had the idea of a tablet as a third screen, and as we’ve seen from Apple’s sales, he was right […]

Samsung Gives Me Another Reason To Hate TouchWiz

Mordechai Osdoby — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 13:10:36 +0000

As I’ve mentioned ad-nauseum in my cellphone reviews, I’m not a huge fan of device manufacturers’ “skinning” of operating systems. While much of that can be chalked up to personal taste, there’s also the demonstrated fact that they directly impact future updates. Sony’s RachelUI kept the Xperia x10 from getting Android 2.3.4 (Gingerbread) until fairly […]

Want An Android Tablet? Dude, You’re Not Getting a Dell.

Mordechai Osdoby — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 16:51:14 +0000

A few months after killing off the Dell Streak 5, Dell has now ended their 7″ model’s suffering as well. This is something that surprised no one, what with the Streak recently being priced at under $100 at local Staples and other retail outlets. What’s particularly telling, tough, is this comment from CEO Michael Dell: […]

On The Cheap: Finding An Appropriate Outlet

Mordechai Osdoby — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 17:53:12 +0000

I was driving to an event in Upstate New York the other day and we passed Woodbury Commons. For the uninitiated, this is an area that boasts over 200 outlet stores. For those unfamiliar with the concept, an outlet store is where a manufacturer sells their product directly to the public without a middle man […]