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Best Buy just launched a program that will buy back obsolete technology from customers. By paying between forty and seventy dollars at purchase, Best Buy will later refund you a percentage of the item’s cost based on its age and recycle it. While the goal is to get customers to upgrade their technology faster, the Continue Reading →

A six-year cross-licensing agreement for $1.5 billion has been signed between Intel and NVIDIA. The agreement will give Intel full access to NVIDIA’s patents. In return, NVIDIA will receive $1.5 billion over 6-years and retain access to Intel’s patents from a previous deal. The massive deal is good news for the consumer and the companies, Continue Reading →

Popular group buying site Groupon announced raising $950 million in its most recent round of financing. The nearly billion dollars comes after rejecting a $6 billion offer from Google. Groupon has of over 50 million subscribers and connections with over 58,000 local businesses making them a hot commodity for local advertising. Read the full article Continue Reading →

Shelly Palmer chats with Greg Kelly and Rosanna Scotto about CES on Fox 5’s Good Day NY. Continue Reading →

[wpaudio url=”https://media.shellypalmer.com/wp-content/images/usrn/110111_SHELLYPALMER_GEN_BED.mp3″ text=”Click to play … ” dl=”0″] Verizon will finally announce the arrival of Apple’s iPhone to its line of products. With many complaints of poor service and loss of iPhone exclusivity, AT&T could lose as many as three million new subscribers to Verizon. If Verizon’s network holds up to the demand, they will Continue Reading →

The Obama administration is granting the U.S. Commerce Department authority to create an Internet ID program. You won’t be receiving national ID cards linking you to an online identity, but “perhaps eliminating the need to memorize a dozen passwords,” said Commerce Secretary Gary Locke. Who should be responsible for our cyber identity? Continue Reading →

Verizon will be offering $30 a month unlimited data plans to new subscribers purchasing an iPhone 4. Large investments into wireless networks make Verizon confident it can withstand the data consumption. With analysts predicting 12 million iPhone sales in the first year, will Verizon’s unlimited plan last longer than AT&T’s? Read the full article at Continue Reading →

Prosecutors investing the WikiLeaks scandal are demanding access to the Twitter accounts of people linked to the organization. The subpoena demands access to Julian Assange’s account as well as Bradley Manning’s, who gave WikiLeaks the documents. The inquiry is another attempt to find legal rationale in order to charge Assange with the solicited leaks. Read Continue Reading →

Shelly chats with Microsoft’s Molly O’Donnell about the Xbox Kinect. Continue Reading →

Apple had one million downloads from its Mac App Store on its first day of business. The store features over a thousand applications and some developers are amazed by its rapid success, noting twice as many users signing up for their program through the store. Despite piracy concerns, the App Store’s window-shopping mentality is already Continue Reading →