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Listen Up, Google Listen, You’re Better Than This

Matt Algren — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 17:07:58 +0000

Podcasts are great. Google is great. Google Listen, the company’s podcast player for Android, is not. Since its lackluster introduction in August 2009, Google has left Listen twisting in the wind with only extremely rare and inconsequential updates. Listen barely does the basic task it’s created for, and it’s far overdue for some TLC. The […]

Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer Thinks Android Phones Are Too Complicated. Is He Right?

Tom Wyrick — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 19:32:27 +0000

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer’s claim at San Fransisco’s Web Summit 2.0 that people need to be “computer scientists” to figure out how to use Android phones spurs Techcitement contributors Matt Algren and Tom Wyrick to provide their own, sometimes conflicting, thoughts on the situation. First, the clip: [yframe url=’http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTX1e-pMN6E’] Matt: What a dumb thing to […]

Why I’m Not Typing This On A TouchPad

Mordechai Osdoby — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 20:36:53 +0000

I love HP’s WebOS. I love the smooth multitasking, the great apps, the PIM solutions, the card metaphor, and pretty much everything else. It’s easy for me to talk for hours about how great the platform is and how it deserves wider attention. I can pontificate about having actual access to my filesystem and being […]