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Verizon has confirmed that it will switch to tiered data pricing starting July 7th. Two gigabytes of data will now run you $30 a month, with another two gigabytes for mobile hotspot use at an additional $20. If you already pay for mobile hotspot use, you will be charged $30 per month for unlimited use. Continue Reading →

Despite becoming ubiquitous with Internet use, Twitter continues to find itself not nearly as profitable as its online counterparts. Instead of rushing towards an initial public offering, the company is pursuing a new round of private investing that could value Twitter at nearly $7 billion. Twitter continues to work on ways to monetize its service Continue Reading →

Shelly Palmer chats with John Abell about tech IPOs. Is it a bubble? Continue Reading →

[wpaudio url=”https://media.shellypalmer.com/wp-content/images/usrn/110706_SHELLYPALMER_GEN_BED.mp3″ text=”Click to play … ” dl=”0″] China is working on installing a network of up to 500,000 surveillance cameras within the country. Officials claim that they will be used to prevent crime, but activists are worried that they will only contribute to political unrest. Western companies like Cisco Systems have agreed to help Continue Reading →

Wired called it last year: “The Web is dead. Long life the Internet.” Sounded a bit silly at that time but facts speak louder than an attention-grabbing headline: Flurry just released a study indicating that people spend more time on mobile apps than on the web. Mashable reports: “Flurry compared its mobile data to stats Continue Reading →

Re-syndicated from MENGonline. It’s All Lies, & That’s the Truth, by Bernie Brillstein, is my favorite business book.  It gives remarkable advice about successfully dealing with people. How can you not love a book that presents fifty rules from fifty years of making a living in Hollywood that are concurrently insightful, universal, outrageous, and usually Continue Reading →

Re-syndicated from NY Videogame Critics Circle To spend tens of millions of dollars on a brand new adventure game, one that evokes everything from Grim Fandango to Police Quest: Open Season, is a big gamble these days. But when I played about eight hours of L.A. Noire yesterday, I felt the gamble had paid off. Continue Reading →

I got a bunch of pushback on my blog post about Gary Shapiro’s Declaration of Innovation.  People are somehow equating the idea of recapturing spectrum from the broadcast television industry as an encroachment on our 1st Amendment rights.  But this has very little to do with the 1st Amendment.  The issue can be illustrated by Continue Reading →

The thieves who made off with more than $2.5M from Citibank and caused the bank to issue 100,000 replacement bank cards have highlighted an alarming trend. Hackers are evolving. And, they are organizing and uniting. They even have a Twitter account. Before the advent of the Internet, we called these hackers “robbers” or “criminals” or Continue Reading →

What can possibly follow an extremely active first six months of 2011? Try these observations out for size: ***Original programming on cable networks continues its summer dominance over broadcast networks. We’re now at the point where on some weeknights other than Friday or Saturday, the combined ABC/CBS/NBC share of households is 16 or 17 percent, Continue Reading →