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[wpaudio url=”https://media.shellypalmer.com/wp-content/images/usrn/120731_SHELLYPALMER_GEN_BED.mp3″ text=”Click to play … ” dl=”0″] The Olympic Games are in full swing and it is by far the most connected games the world has ever seen.  So far, this has been both a blessing and a curse. The results are spreading faster than ever before via Twitter and other social media networks. Continue Reading →

Continuing the super-sizing of photos that began with the introduction of Timeline last year, Facebook on Monday enhanced image-viewing on the platform. Now, when you click Photos at the top of your Timeline, you’ll be presented with larger pics that fill up the page. Presenting a page full of images will in theory make it Continue Reading →

Google’s been adding a lot of features lately to get us to Hangout, from providing digital moustaches to scheduling virtual soirees. Now, the company’s aiming to get folks video conferencing from their inbox. That’s right, you can now start a Hangout with up to nine friends or colleagues straight from Gmail with a click of Continue Reading →

This past weekend, a supposed Xbox 720 “Durango” developer kit was posted on an obscure developer forum and offered to the public for the price of $10,000. The device resembles a traditional PC tower running a regular debug launcher, leading many to be skeptical about the authenticity of the prototype, which was said to feature Continue Reading →

18 days after it debuted in the iOS App Store, “Amazing Alex” has dropped to No.10 on Apple’s (AAPL) paid iOS app chart and to No.99 on Apple’s list of top-grossing apps. Rovio’s new franchise launched in a blaze of publicity two weeks ago, hitting the No.1 position a mere eight hours after it became Continue Reading →

Supersite for Windows is reporting that Microsoft has confirmed that the Surface is due to start shipping on October 26th, alongside Windows 8. Supersite for Windows reveals that a Microsoft filing with the US Security and Exchange quietly reveals that the tablet will start shipping to customers on October 26th.That’s the same day as Windows Continue Reading →

We heard some rumblings ahead of the weekend from third-party sources, and like clockwork, Apple has kicked the week off with its weekend box office returns. According to Cupertino’s numbers, the latest version of OS X hit three million downloads in four days, making for “the most successful OS X release in Apple’s history.” Price Continue Reading →

In anticipation of the final public release of their new all-singing all-dancing Windows 8 operating system, Microsoft has been hard at work behind the scenes deploying their engineering teams into projects that have resulted in the announcement and launch of a range of new mice and keyboards that have been designed to make using Windows Continue Reading →

The other day, I received a tweet from someone supposedly representing Microsoft. He told me the company was opening a new store near my local Apple store and please could I recommend some people to go work there. I tend to steer clear of teenage techies and their superior tics and snorts, so I didn’t Continue Reading →

Photographs of what could be Apple’s next iPhone surfaced Sunday, giving impatient iPhone fans an idea of what Apple could be unveiling sometime during the next few months. Maybe. Possibly. It all depends on whether the parts are actually from Apple. Chinese-language repair site iLab.cc reports it assembled an iPhone 5 using individual parts that Continue Reading →