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It’s near the end of your obligatory two-year contract and you’re all excited about upgrading to a new phone.  Awesome! What’s this … an upgrade fee!  Yep, for the honor of getting a new phone, Verizon is going to charge you a $30 upgrade fee. Are you upset?  Outraged?  Incredulous?  Don’t be. Verizon has never Continue Reading →

Next Issue Media, a joint venture between Conde Nast, Hearst, Meredith, News Corp, and Time Inc., has formally unveiled its Android tablet newsstand, which has been referred to as “Hulu for magazines.”  Read the full story at PC Mag Read more Top Stories Continue Reading →

In my last column I wrote the New Health Age, the new age of health care and medicine that we have entered.  The coming changes in the health care landscape the United States and the incredible medical miracles rapidly coming will define this new age. As written in the last column, the national conversation about Continue Reading →

Walmart has announced a new service for customers that enables them to make digital records of their physical DVDs, and store them on Walmart’s cloud service. The service will utilize the UltraViolet platform, which has been widely advocated by the movie industry. Launching April 16th, the service will cost $2-4$ a disc. Read the whole Continue Reading →

Warner Home Entertainment Group President Kevin Tsujihara said the company is working on a program to convert your already purchased movies to a digital format. The company hasn’t released any specifics, but the program will require you to take your discs to a retail location to convert them at a cost. If the cost is right, Continue Reading →

HTC is streamlining its mobile business and announced that it would launch future devices under the brand HTC One. The company is also answering Apple’s iCloud by striking a deal with Dropbox to bring 25GB of cloud storage to anyone who buys one of its devices. Read the full article at TechCrunch.com Continue Reading →

[wpaudio url=”https://media.shellypalmer.com/wp-content/images/usrn/120227_SHELLYPALMER_GEN_BED.mp3″ text=”Click to play … ” dl=”0″] An investigation found that mobile apps including Flickr and Yahoo! Messenger can access your private data like text messages and contacts. While you shouldn’t worry that someone is reading your messages, you should be aware of what data you give apps permission to access. In other news, Continue Reading →

At some point growing up, many kids heard this advice from one or both parents: “Now ____, be on your best behavior.” Quite soon, we TV viewers may have to heed that advice, when dealing with our relationship to TV sets. There’s a huge disrupt ahead for that relationship, and thank Ralph Santana for the Continue Reading →

Apple’s in the news again. The company announced a new operating system launching this summer called OS X Mountain Lion. Apple is bringing many iPhone and iPad features to its PC counterparts like notifications, AirPlay streaming and iCloud storage. Read the full article at CNet.com Continue Reading →

[wpaudio url=”https://media.shellypalmer.com/wp-content/images/usrn/120217_SHELLYPALMER_GEN_BED.mp3″ text=”Click to play … ” dl=”0″] Apple’s in the news again. The company announced a new operating system launching this summer called OS 10 Mountain Lion. Apple is bringing many iPhone and iPad features to its PC counterparts like notifications, AirPlay streaming and iCloud storage. In other news, if you bought a tablet Continue Reading →