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Low-power chip manufacturer Texas Instruments announced that it will acquire National Semiconductor for $6.5 billion. Analog semiconductors are responsible for converting analog signals into digital data in smartphones and PCs. The merger would help Texas Instruments retain its position as a leader in the semiconductor market. Read the full article at PCWorld.com Continue Reading →

Shelly Palmer explains the Epsilon e-mail security breach on Good Day NY. Continue Reading →

[wpaudio url=”https://media.shellypalmer.com/wp-content/images/usrn/110405_SHELLYPALMER_GEN_BED.mp3″ text=”Click to play … ” dl=”0″] Twitter finally launched a new way to sort through its sea of tweets with interest-based search. You can now search within a category and Twitter will return relevant accounts based on their tweets. The “who to follow” page is now broken down by interest, displaying the top Continue Reading →

A recent Comscore report reveals that one in three smartphones in the U.S. runs Google’s Android operating system. The study was a three-month average, showing 7% growth for Android handsets. While Android was the dominant OS, Verizon’s iPhone 4 was still the most sold phone in that period. Read the full article at PCMag.com Continue Reading →

Marketing firm Epsilon had its e-mail database hacked, containing names and addresses of major corporations’ customers. Epsilon sends out marketing e-mails for companies like CitiBank, JPMorgan Chase and the Home Shopping Network. While no overly sensitive information was stolen, look out for cleverly masked spam e-mails. Read the full article at PCWorld.com Continue Reading →

NASA’s Kepler spacecraft has discovered a total of 1,235 planets previously undiscovered. The planets are discovered by monitoring a dip in stars’ brightness as the planets pass by them. Out of the 1,235 planets, 54 are candidates for containing liquid water on its surface. Read the full article at LiveScience.com   Continue Reading →

[wpaudio url=”https://media.shellypalmer.com/wp-content/images/usrn/110404_SHELLYPALMER_GEN_BED.mp3″ text=”Click to play … ” dl=”0″] You know that today, most popular software like Microsoft Office, Photoshop and even Quicken are available on Macs and PCs. But beware; even though these programs have the same titles and are made by the same companies, they do not necessarily have the same features. For example, Continue Reading →

Publisher Random House is partnering with videogame company THQ to produce graphic novels, videogames and digital books. The companies will also collaborate on original console and mobile videogames, to bring “transmedia” titles to the public. Random House has created 15 concepts for original videogames that have yet to be sold to game producers. Read the Continue Reading →

Shelly Palmer shows off the Motorola Xoom, with Motorola’s Vivek Thakkar on Live Digital. Continue Reading →

By definition, I’m a Mac Fanboy. Just here in my home office there’s a MacPro Tower with everything on it, three MacBook Pros and two MacBooks, two Mac Minis, a dozen iPods, nanos, shuffles, several iPhones a couple of iPads, it looks like Steve Jobs threw up in here. I am a Mac lover and, Continue Reading →