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There is an abundance of online resources dedicated to helping women find fashion tips and inspiration, everything from blogs to services like Pinterest and Fancy. But getting location-based, Yelp-like information on fashion goods you can buy in your neighborhood isn’t so easy. That’s the gap that Snapette is trying to fill. The New York company, Continue Reading →

Amid the hoopla of Google IO, a few Google-related items sailed by almost unnoticed — such as a cool update to the Android version of YouTube. For the first time, YouTube will start downloading videos it thinks you might want to watch, whenever you’re plugged in and on Wi-fi. That’s great news for commuters, for Continue Reading →

[wpaudio url=”https://media.shellypalmer.com/wp-content/images/usrn/120628_SHELLYPALMER_GEN_BED.mp3″ text=”Click to play … ” dl=”0″] As expected, Google made some big announcements during the opening of its annual developer conference yesterday.  First things first: now available for pre-order is the Nexus 7 tablet, a device running the brand new Android 4.1 Operating System, better known as Jelly Bean. The quad-core tablet has Continue Reading →

There’s no shortage of messaging apps that take advantage of your smartphone’s data plan. Apple’s iMessage platform allows the instant exchange of messages, images, and video (albeit to other supported Apple devices). Google uses Google Voice for text messages, but it doesn’t have a first-party utility for freely exchanging media. Samsung’s cross-platform app ChatON seems Continue Reading →

Wednesday at Google I/O, the company has announced quite a bit of news surrounding upcoming Android updates, a brand new tablet, numerous updates to Google+ and more. There’s heaps of information to cover, so let’s get to it. Here’s everything you need to know. The Stats: Wednesday at Google I/O, it was announced that there Continue Reading →

Over the next couple of days, Google is expected to announce a huge number of new features across its services at its Google I/O developer conference, but an early source code change suggests that TV episodes and magazines will soon be available to Android device and Google TV owners. In a recent scan of a Continue Reading →

Earlier this year, Spotify rolled out a plan to get its “play” button on a host of Web sites, which let the streaming music service broaden its reach beyond Facebook. Now it’s making the same move, but with one very, very big Web site: Spotify has a distribution deal with Yahoo, which the portal says Continue Reading →

Wednesday, mobile payments startup Square is rolling out what the company says is the most heavily-requested feature by its merchants to date: user permissions. What this means is that business owners will now be able to enable their staff to use Square devices to accept payments without having to provide those employees with access to Continue Reading →

A U.S. judge on Tuesday backed Apple Inc’s request to stop Samsung Electronics selling its Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet in the United States, giving the iPhone maker a significant win in the global smartphone and tablet patent wars. Samsung’s Galaxy touchscreen tablets, powered by Google’s Android operating system, are considered by many industry experts to Continue Reading →

I have 2,514 photos sitting on my iPhone. So when I heard there was a company that will help me license those images and get paid for them via my phone, I was instantly intrigued. Foap is a Swedish company started by travel industry veterans who were always disappointed in the availability of stock photo Continue Reading →