Every night at 12:15 AM Pacific, Amazon gives away a free paid app through their Amazon app store. As I am usually awake at 12:15 AM Pacific, why not let you know if today’s app is useful, or just more clutter in your app drawer? There are actually two free apps today, although they are […]
We all know there’s a lot of hype around Google+. The success or failure of social networks has never been about chatter, it’s about one thing and one thing only: how many people are on it? Now, estimates are saying that Google+ is growing at a record-breaking rate. Google walked in the door facing some […]
Voice of Objectivity is an ongoing column meant to temper the tendency of the Techcited to run away with the most exciting or controversial ideas in technology’s near future. The opinions presented here do not necessarily represent the views of Techcitement or this writer. Someone’s got to keep a cool head around here. I guess […]
Google+ had its first major glitch on Saturday, and many users learned why Google is calling its slow, ongoing roll-out of the service a “field trial”. It seems even Google can run out of hard drive space, and Google+’s early high levels of activity surprised the search giant. It seems that the disk that was […]
Google has a tendency to create a product, then let the people figure out how to use it. I think that is a lot of the reason for the ultimate failure of Google Wave, because I still don’t know exactly what it was for. They seem to be continuing this trend with Google+. For the […]
Every night at 12:15 AM Pacific, Amazon gives away a free paid app through their Amazon app store. As I am usually awake at 12:15 AM Pacific, why not let you know if today’s app is useful, or just more clutter in your app drawer? Today’s free app is Cozi Family Organizer Premium by Cozi, usually available for […]
By Request is an ongoing series of reviews and tips requested by our Techcited commenters. Head for the comments section on any article and let us know what you want to know. With Amazon Cloud Drive back in the news, Techcitement reader Nuke asked us to take a look at how Amazon’s cloud music player […]
Mobile cloud music is a highly competitive arena these days, and some of the biggest players in mobile and music have entered the game. Even a few surprising entries are trying to build a business in the newest entertainment space. Amazon made a big splash when they launched their cloud player with virtually no warning, […]
In a live event this afternoon, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg unveiled a set of “awesome” new features centered on chat. He broke the announcement down into three areas: group chat, the chat interface, and video chat. Facebook has had groups available for a year, and in that time, 50 percent of its users have become […]
According to Ben Parr at Mashable, Google intends to rebrand several of their popular products, including the Picasa photo manager software and their Blogger product. Picasa will become “Google Photos”, while Blogger gets renamed “Google Blogs”. The word is other products will be renamed as well, but Google intends to leave YouTube alone. (They already […]
