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Lawmakers praised a new law that took effect on Thursday aimed at prohibiting commercials from playing at a louder volume than the programming they surround. The rules have been a long time coming. President Obama signed the Calm Act in December 2010, and the Federal Communications Commission approved rules to implement the law a year Continue Reading →

A petition asking the White House to immediately press Congress for tighter restrictions on gun ownership became the most popular ever posted to the White House “We the People” website after less than 48 hours online Sunday. The petition was filed in the hours following an elementary school shooting in Newtown, Conn., on Friday that Continue Reading →

On Sunday, we learned that Twitter made good on its promise to start letting its users download all of their tweets from the beginning of their history with the service. For many geeks, there is excitement about this. It means that Twitter is showing how truly “open” they can be when it comes to your Continue Reading →

They say that a picture is worth a thousand words. I have always viewed that expression as quaint and rather colloquial. But over the last few weeks, as I have been preparing for a friends and family soft launch, I have been playing with new ways of telling stories, of conveying information in a meaningful Continue Reading →

Lots of people are asking me what’s on my wish list this holiday season. For me, the list is pretty modest: I’d like a Tesla Model S electric touring sedan. You’d like one too – they are simply awesome! But, since that’s not in the cards, here are the top five tech gifts I’d give Continue Reading →

iOS users searching for holiday gift ideas can head on over to Apple’s App Store. You can now directly send a paid app to someone as a gift, a feature that was previously available with iOS 5 but disappeared when iOS 6 debuted this fall. To use the feature, open the App Store app on Continue Reading →

There’s something in the air this week. Maybe it’s that the holidays are coming, or that it’s getting colder, or that there’s not much actual news to be had three weeks before the Consumer Electronics Show. But for some reason, the dumb Apple rumors are piling up like so many discarded MobileMe accounts. The latest Continue Reading →

If you’re a Google+ fan, Christmas just came early. The service is launching many new features on Friday, including the ability to instantly back up full-resolution photos taken on Android phones. Google announced the upgrades in a blog post, saying they’d be available today on the web and in a new app download in Google Continue Reading →

A new app has just launched on the App Store, looking to give parents a better way to store memorable photos of their kids. Given the fact that we’re in a digital era, it only makes sense that parents would want to store photos of their children digitally, rather than storing physical photos in drawers, Continue Reading →

[wpaudio url=”https://media.shellypalmer.com/wp-content/images/usrn/121214_SHELLYPALMER_GEN_BED.mp3″ text=”Click to play … ” dl=”0″] After three months of dealing with Apple Maps, iOS 6 users can rejoice as Google has released a native app available for Apple’s mobile platform. Launched early Thursday morning to the App Store, the Google Maps app is once again ready to navigate you around the globe. Continue Reading →