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[wpaudio url=”https://media.shellypalmer.com/wp-content/images/usrn/120409_SHELLYPALMER_GEN_BED.mp3″ text=”Click to play … ” dl=”0″] AT&T is finally allowing iPhone owners to unlock their phones – but there’s a catch.  You must be finished with your initial 2-year AT&T contract.  Why would you want to unlock your AT&T iPhone?  Well, if you travel abroad, you can just pop in any compatible SIM Continue Reading →

[wpaudio url=”https://media.shellypalmer.com/wp-content/images/usrn/120406_SHELLYPALMER_GEN_BED.mp3″ text=”Click to play … ” dl=”0″] Think Mac are immune to computer viruses?  Think again.  A virus known as the Trojan Flashback has infected over 600,000 Macs in around the world and the number is increasing fast.  Now, this virus was first detected back in September of 2011.  Back then, Apple dragged its Continue Reading →

[wpaudio url=”https://media.shellypalmer.com/wp-content/images/usrn/120405_SHELLYPALMER_GEN_BED.mp3″ text=”Click to play … ” dl=”0″] You put on your glasses and look out the window, out in the distance, almost instantly you see the temperature and the weather forecast icons.  A moment later, information about your morning meeting shows up in your field of vision.  You ask for a Google map and Continue Reading →

[wpaudio url=”https://media.shellypalmer.com/wp-content/images/usrn/120404_SHELLYPALMER_GEN_BED.mp3″ text=”Click to play … ” dl=”0″] On April 8 Nokia will bring its Windows Phone Lumia 900 to AT&T for only $99.99.  This is a Windows phone, and the user experience is decidedly different from an Android or an iPhone.  If you’re all-Microsoft the way many iPhone users are all-Apple, and many Android Continue Reading →

[wpaudio url=”https://media.shellypalmer.com/wp-content/images/usrn/120403_SHELLYPALMER_GEN_BED.mp3″ text=”Click to play … ” dl=”0″] Best Buy recently announced that is will be closing 50 of its 1,450 US stores and replacing them with 100 mobile locations. One of the biggest reasons is showrooming.  What’s showrooming?  It’s where you go to a store, like Best Buy, look around the showroom, talk to Continue Reading →

[wpaudio url=”https://media.shellypalmer.com/wp-content/images/usrn/120402_SHELLYPALMER_GEN_BED.mp3″ text=”Click to play … ” dl=”0″] Smartphones are trending up, they now account for almost 50 percent of mobile phones in the United States.  And, not surprisingly, feature phones are trending down – four out of five new mobile phone purchases are for smartphones.  The clear winner is Google, about 48 percent of Continue Reading →

[wpaudio url=”https://media.shellypalmer.com/wp-content/images/usrn/120330_SHELLYPALMER_GEN_BED.mp3″ text=”Click to play … ” dl=”0″] As of today, Facebook will force your profile into timeline mode forever.  If you loved the old new Facebook, sorry, now you’re going to have to love the new, new Facebook. What’s the good news, well, actually some people really like the timeline.  Others complain that search Continue Reading →

[wpaudio url=”https://media.shellypalmer.com/wp-content/images/usrn/120329_SHELLYPALMER_GEN_BED.mp3″ text=”Click to play … ” dl=”0″] The Wall Street Journal and Parks Associates did a survey of Apple iPhone 4S users to see how much they liked using Siri, Apple’s personal digital assistant.  Not surprisingly, usage is limited and it’s pretty easy to understand why.  Let’s try Siri, schedule a call for me Continue Reading →

[wpaudio url=”https://media.shellypalmer.com/wp-content/images/usrn/120327_SHELLYPALMER_GEN_BED.mp3″ text=”Click to play … ” dl=”0″] In a couple of weeks, AT&T will begin selling the highly-hyped and fairly well anticipated Nokia Lumia 900 Windows Smartphone.  And the really big news is the price point: $99 dollars with the obligatory two-year contract.  It’s 4G, has an 8MP camera and 16Gig of storage, which Continue Reading →

[wpaudio url=”https://media.shellypalmer.com/wp-content/images/usrn/120326_SHELLYPALMER_GEN_BED.mp3″ text=”Click to play … ” dl=”0″] New York Senator Chuck Schumer and Connecticut Senator Richard Blumenthal are calling on the Department of Justice and the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to investigate reports that employers are asking job applicants for Facebook and other social media passwords during job interviews. This begs for the Continue Reading →