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Amazon is now offering free e-book rentals for Prime subscribers. You can rent one book at a time and have it checked out for up to a month. The $79 a year Prime subscription now gives you free shipping, unlimited video streaming and access to over 5,000 e-books. In other news, Apple acknowledged that a small number of costumers are having battery life issues after upgrading their iPhones to iOS 5. If you’re experiencing issues a temporarily solution is to turn off location services settings when you don’t need GPS access. Apple will soon fix the problem with a software update. And finally, a report given to Congress by a top counterintelligence agency, warns of repeated cyber espionage attacks on U.S. companies. The attacks attempt to steal sensitive business and economic secrets and are mainly coming from foreign spies.
About Shelly Palmer
Shelly Palmer is the Professor of Advanced Media in Residence at Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications and CEO of The Palmer Group, a consulting practice that helps Fortune 500 companies with AI strategy, implementation and governance, as well as technology, media and marketing. Named one of LinkedIn’s Top Voices in Technology, he is a bestselling author, covers tech and business for Fox 5’s Good Day New York, is a regular commentator on CNN, and writes the popular daily business blog Think About This. Follow @shellypalmer or visit shellypalmer.com.