Google+ profiles offer a lot of flexibility when it comes to privacy, but there are three pieces of information on them that are open to the public. Your name, gender, and profile picture are visible not just to your Circles and Google+ users, but the entire internet. That information shows up through Google’s own search […]
Amidst all the well-deserved hullabaloo over last week’s big Google+ release (Who isn’t salivating?), Google began making some tweaks to their mobile web user interface (UI). It seems that Google didn’t make any announcement about the upgrade, instead leaving users to find the changes on their own. Well, the heck with that. Here at Techcitement, […]
The last year has seen concerns over privacy on Facebook rise to new heights. Every new feature seems to be designed to automatically share more user information, on an opt-out basis, and the controls that let users opt out of services they never wanted to be a part of are buried under layer after layer […]
“Welcome to Music Beta, a new service from Google that lets you store your personal collection online and access it instantly without the hassle of wires or syncing.” I received that message about a week and a half ago, and I’ve been using the service since. Before I go any further, just remember, I’m commenting […]
Google doesn’t have the best history when it comes to their attempts at social networking. There was Orkut, a social network that never took off, which actually predates Facebook, and was designed as a competitor to Friendster. Then, there was the disastrous launch of Buzz. I was never quite sure which was more fatal to this […]
You may have missed it, but Microsoft has been running a beta of their own online office suite, called Office 365, for the last year. Yesterday, it officially lost the beta tag. There are some great features, but here’s the catch – unlike Google Docs, you pay for Office 365. To be honest, my first […]
Do you love Google? Google sure hopes you do. Although it hasn’t been announced anywhere, go to www.wdyl.com or google.com/whatdoyoulove, type in a search string, and it creates a sort of mini-portal where it runs the search through every Google product. So, instead of individually having to look up a Google Map, YouTube, Trend, and photo album […]
Unless you’ve been chilling under a rock, you probably caught that Google announced the new Google Wallet. Using an NFC chip and MasterCard’s PayPass system (the one they’ve been slowly rolling out here in NY for ages), you can use your phone to pay for things. With constant rumors that the next iPhone will use […]
