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In what may be a first for the platform, a New York frozen yogurt chain is leveraging Snapchat for a promotion that presents users with a coupon that self-destructs within 10 seconds. The idea came about when the chain — 16 Handles — noted that a lot of its young users were using their Snapchat Continue Reading →

There are nearly 70 million tablet users in the U.S. alone, a figure that has doubled from the year before. This means that nearly 30% of the country’s Internet users are browsing on a tablet device. Tablet traffic to e-commerce sites grew by 348% from 2011 to 2012, overtaking smartphone traffic for the first time. Continue Reading →

You can do almost anything online these days — order your groceries, video chat with a faraway friend, make your own business cards, find the answer to just about any query and countless other tasks. But did you know you can also measure your pupillary distance? What about majoring in physics at MIT, without ever Continue Reading →

In a support article on its website, Apple has acknowledged that a bug is keeping iOS devices’ Do Not Disturb feature active past its scheduled time. It says that the bug will automatically correct itself after January 7, 2013. Do Not Disturb is a feature added by Apple in iOS 6, and allows you to Continue Reading →

Author and food activist Michael Pollan has lamented that the Food Network and cooking shows have “transformed cooking from something you do into something you watch.” But remember; those celebrity chefs can teach us a thing or two about how to cook. Maybe we’re finding celebrity chefs’ ease and comfort in the kitchen, their quick Continue Reading →

We didn’t have to wait very long to discover what 2013’s first big Kickstarter project would be. Via Ars Technica, we give you the GameStick, an Android-based two-inch long stick that plugs directly into a controller and acts as a highly portable gaming console. The GameStick team says that their goal with the new mini-console Continue Reading →

It was previously reported that several Galaxy S III owners were experiencing problems with their devices. Users discovered that the flash memory in the handset was becoming corrupt and failing, causing the phone’s mainboard to die. Devices were reportedly lasting between 150 and 200 days before permanently dying, at which point Samsung was replacing them Continue Reading →

Today on Shelly Palmer Digital Living: Snapchat is the mobile world’s latest craze – it’s a free messaging service that allows users to send one another photos or messages that self-destruct after a set amount of time. Pretty cool, huh? Some of Snapchat’s bolder users have used the app as a means of safer sexting. Continue Reading →

It’s the time of year for New Year’s resolutions, and for those of you who always mean to make and share pictures and video… but never quite get around to it… here are some quick tips to help you keep your media organized and sharable through the next year. 1. Always Have a Camera With Continue Reading →

Shelly Palmer talks about Snapchat’s Leak and Alicia Keys leaving BlackBerry on CNNi’s Quest Means Business. Continue Reading →