[wpaudio url=”https://media.shellypalmer.com/wp-content/images/usrn/120528_SHELLYPALMER_GEN_BED.mp3″ text=”Click to play … ” dl=”0″] Facebook says that about half its users access Facebook via mobile device. Which is great! Except that Facebook doesn’t have any way to sell ads in its mobile offering, so all of those page views are served without any hope of revenue. But this may be about Continue Reading →
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The Facebook spending spree may be continuing as a new report says the social networking giant might be looking to buy Norwegian company Opera Software.Now fully under the microscope of Wall Street as well as Main Street investors, Facebook is trying to solve its mobile monetizing problems and has been gobbling up various companies in Continue Reading →
Be patient, owners of the Motorola RAZR and RAZR Maxx. You’ll get your ice cream someday – Ice Cream Sandwich, that is, otherwise known as Android 4.0. But if you can’t wait until the end of June to get your hands on the latest update to Google’s OS, and you haven’t already installed a custom Continue Reading →
Chances are that you’ve deleted a file by accident. Sometimes you’re lucky enough to still have it lingering around in your recycle bin, other times you panic after realizing you emptied it three days ago. Undela is a Windows application that seeks to give you a second chance with your deleted files. Read the full Continue Reading →
The New York Time’s Nick Bilton reported recently, citing unnamed sources, that Facebook is hoping to release its own smartphone by next year. Bilton’s sources include Facebook employees and several engineers who have been sought out by recruiters there, as well as people briefed on Facebook’s plans, he says. Those briefed on the plans told Continue Reading →
Despite the late Steve Jobs’ mockery of a stylus, Apple has been tinkering with the notion of an iPen complete with haptic feedback. That’s according to a newly published patent application unearthed by enthusiast site Patently Apple. Apple’s idea for an iPen would include haptic feedback to improve the user interface.Read the full story at Continue Reading →
Microsoft did request for Google to remove over half a million links from its search index in April this year alone, according to the most recent figures released by the search engine giant. Google’s data showed that most of these links will send folks who click on them over to websites that sell pirated Microsoft Continue Reading →
Google continues to expand its Project Glass testing with more employees getting the chance to try out the connected specs. TheVerge noticed that at this week’s Google+ Photographers Conference a number of images taken with Google’s glasses were shown off and are of much higher quality than previous samples. Additionally, the first video capture from Project Continue Reading →
PayPal has made deals with 15 retailers including Toys R Us, J C Penney and Barnes & Noble that will allow consumers to pay for purchases with their cellphones while expanding the online payment company’s service into additional physical stores.Earlier this year Home Depot began accepting PayPal in about 2,000 stores. Read the full story Continue Reading →
I very rarely call the “time of death” of a company. It’s really not my place. But, after my customer service experience with RIM (Research In Motion, the makers of BlackBerry smart devices) the other day, I think it’s safe to say that BlackBerry has passed on! RIM is no more! It has ceased to Continue Reading →