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At the end of July, Amazon updated its Cloud Player to be in fighting form as an iTunes killer, with a load of new audio features like Scan and Match technology and licensing deals with a number of labels. And at the time, Amazon said that Sonos support would be “coming soon.” Today, that functionality Continue Reading →

Valve is set to roll out a line of software titles ranging from “creativity to productivity,” hitting Steam on September 5. The software titles will incorporate Steamworks functionality, allowing automatic updating and cloud storage, among other standard Steam features. This follows a leak on the Steam mobile app in July that listed a slew of Continue Reading →

Oh yes folks, there’s (yet again) more news surrounding OUYA’s $99 indie gaming console. After passing $6.5M in funding on Kickstarter, OUYA is now partnering with iHeartRadio to release its HTML5 app on the console. Keep in mind that the company only just teamed up with VEVO and also recently announced an important partnership with Continue Reading →

Unnamed sources have told the Wall Street Journal that Google has been having internal discussions about possibly expanding its super-speedy Google Fiber service into markets that aren’t currently being served by Verizon’s FiOS network. WSJ’s report provided no further details on specific markets that Google is eyeing for possible expansion, and would only note that Continue Reading →

[wpaudio url=”https://media.shellypalmer.com/wp-content/images/usrn/120802_SHELLYPALMER_GEN_BED.mp3″ text=”Click to play … ” dl=”0″] Another day, another hack. This time it’s Dropbox and the cloud file-sharing service is blaming the breach on a stolen employee password.  The company found that usernames and passwords had been stolen from other websites and because of password reuse, the thieves were able to gain access Continue Reading →

Google Wallet has been hampered by a number of limitations since its launch, not the least of which is its limited device compatibility. Perhaps a bigger problem though, was its lack of support for most major credit and debit cards. Today that finally changes with the latest version of Big G’s mobile payment system. Now Continue Reading →

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 →

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 →

[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 →