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A day after upgrading its cloud music player, Amazon has delivered a native Amazon Instant Video app for iPad (not iPhone or iPod Touch, yet) to the App Store. It has access to streaming Prime Instant Video for subscribers, as well as downloaded or streamed video on-demand. Other key features include access to the Watchlist Continue Reading →

It’s high time for some competition in the tablet device space, after new data suggested that Apple holds a whopping 85 percent share of the market. That in mind, the release of Google’s Nexus 7 tablet and unveiling of Microsoft Surface are set to bring a dose of serious competition at right on time. The Continue Reading →

The cloud-printing future is steamrolling its way into our lives one service at a time. FedEx Office locations now support Google Drive alongside pre-existing Box, Dropbox and Google Docs options for printing from the cloud. Google mentioned the new feature on the Drive team’s Google+ page, directing interested parties to the FedEx website for more Continue Reading →

Warner Bros. is going after Amazon.com’s resellers market. The studio’s home entertainment division has filed at least 16 separate lawsuits in California against those who use the e-vendor to sell discounted DVDs ranging from Harry Potter films to many HBO shows such as Game of Thrones, The Wire, The Sopranos and Entourage. Each of the Continue Reading →

I was born in 1980, making me a part of the first ‘computer-native’ generation. I literally cannot remember an existence without computers as a part of daily life. Sure, they were rarer when I was young, especially for those without the access I had, but they were always around. The next generational wave had cell Continue Reading →

Apparently Google’s strange little media streamer isn’t quite ready for prime time — not according to the company that made it, at least. The software giant has begun sending out a note to pre-orderers letting them know that the launch of the sphere has been delayed in order to “work on making it even better.” Continue Reading →

[wpaudio url=”https://media.shellypalmer.com/wp-content/images/usrn/120801_SHELLYPALMER_GEN_BED.mp3″ text=”Click to play … ” dl=”0″] Hotmail may become cool again and no, we haven’t gone back to 1999.  Microsoft has unveiled Outlook.com, a new email service that will eventually be the home of all current Hotmail users. The product was clearly designed to compete with Gmail, with a simple, easy to use Continue Reading →

When a few hundred Dropbox users began receiving spam emails about online casinos and gambling sites two weeks ago, it seemed like something was up. And indeed there was.  Read the full story at CNET Continue Reading →

Amazon Cloud Player just got a major content and feature update, the company announced today, while unveiling new music licensing agreements with Sony Music Entertainment, EMI Music, Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group, and 150 other partners. As you may know, Cloud Player is a freemium platform that help users access their music in the Continue Reading →

Google announced on Tuesday that it has acquired Wildfire, a startup with a viral marketing campaign platform and several offices stretching from Silicon Valley to Singapore. Google product management director Jason Miller explained on the official Google blog that the merger of Google and Wildfire will create “new opportunities for our clients to engage with Continue Reading →