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From Techfiction To Techfact With Iron Man

Mordechai Osdoby — Fri, 03 May 2013 17:40:17 +0000

Techcitement touched upon some of Tony Stark’s wardrobe the other day, but we didn’t deal with one of the coolest aspects of the armor — the predictive nature. A lot of what was far-out science fiction in 1962 is science fact today. The first thing you need to be aware of is that in the […]

Google Soon To Expand Google Now To More Platforms

Mordechai Osdoby — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 15:00:56 +0000

There are a depressing number of non-Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean) handsets in the wild, so it could be that many are unfamiliar with Google’s impressive virtual assistant, Google Now. While other virtual assistants require that you talk to them, Google Now passively collects data on you and learns a surprising amount. For example, opening Google Now on my recently […]

Banned iPhone 5 Promo: Celebrating iPhone 5, The Sixth iPhone (NSFW)

Matt Algren — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 13:30:34 +0000

We’ve all oohed and aahed over the new iPhone. All that’s left is making fun of Apple’s sales pitch. That means it’s time for another banned iPhone promo from the hilarious John Elrick and company, whose banned iProduct promos have been going strong for two and a half years now. I’m not about to be […]

Virgin Mobile Loses Its iPhone Cherry

Mordechai Osdoby — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 18:08:16 +0000

Virgin Mobile, a pre-pay division of Sprint Wireless, has announced that it will add the iPhone 4 and 4S to their handset offerings as of June 29. This comes scant days after Cricket Wireless, another pre-pay giant, made a similar announcement. All this pre-pay action is making some of us wonder what’s in store for […]

Major Mac Refresh Rumors

Tom Wyrick — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 17:36:31 +0000

With Apple’s World Wide Developer Conference (WWDC) starting on June 11, rumors abound predicting new product releases. Despite the conference having a focus on software development, programmers need current computers to use while writing their code. This reality makes the annual WWDC event popular for official announcements of new Apple hardware too. Practically everything in […]

IBM Bans Siri, Dropbox, iCloud And More

Tom Wyrick — Wed, 23 May 2012 19:26:04 +0000

Following the lead of other large businesses, IBM implemented a “bring your own device” policy in 2010, allowing employees who work outside of the office to use devices other than corporate-issued smartphones. Unfortunately, the company felt it had to follow this liberal policy with a conservative ban on technologies that IBM considered potential security issues. […]

Android Tagged With Graffiti

Mordechai Osdoby — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 21:11:27 +0000

Gather round, children, and let grandpa tell you about the olden days that we called the 90s. Times were dark, then. We didn’t have smartphones. Instead we had PDAs — personal digital assistants. The leader of the field was a company called Palm, and their operating system was a little thing called PalmOS. One of […]

Remixing A Better Siri Commercial (NSFW Audio)

Matt Algren — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 22:10:54 +0000

Apple’s Siri application and her Android competition have been on my radar for a few months now, but somehow I managed to miss the commercial that Apple released several weeks ago. [yframe url=’http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-G8fG1bKgQo’] Smart of them to go for the youth market, but somehow this tongue-in-cheek (and a bit NSFW) remix by Matt Binder does […]

Search Engine ChaCha Embarrasses Android App Developer With Hate-Group-Approved Results

Matt Algren — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 16:35:40 +0000

It’s only been four months since Iris, the leading imitator of Apple’s Siri, was released to the Android Market, and Dexetra, the app’s developer, has a lot to crow about. The company claims to serve up to a million answers every day, and the number only seems to be increasing. Fortunately, the fledgling company and […]

Techcitement Review: A webOS User Tries Out Windows Phone 7.5 With Mango

Mordechai Osdoby — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 20:59:25 +0000

This is a follow-up of sorts to my previous article, “Tasting Gingerbread: A WebOS User Dabbles In The Android Waters”. I’m still using a Palm Pre+ hacked to run on Sprint, but I know this can’t last forever. With webOS’s uncertain future almost certainly not including phones, I’ve continued to look elsewhere. That’s why when […]