[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 →
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On April 8 Nokia will bring its Windows Phone Lumia 900 to AT&T for only $99.99. It integrates seamlessly with Microsoft Exchange, and the Windows Phone 7 interface is an effortless one. The user experience of this Windows phone is decidedly different from Android and iOS, and if you’re all-Microsoft the way many iPhone users Continue Reading →
In a significant milestone for a device once known only for blasting “Halo” opponents, Microsoft’s Xbox 360 video game console is now used more for watching movies and TV shows and listening to music online than playing video games online. Read the full story at the Los Angeles Times Read more Top Stories 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 →
U.S. Sens. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) and Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) called on two federal agencies — Department of Justice and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission — to investigate what they call a “new disturbing trend” of prospective employers demanding job applicants to turn over their user names and passwords for their social networks. Read the full Continue Reading →
Microsoft confirmed that it will not announce a new Xbox at the E3 video game conference in June… or anytime soon. According to a Microsoft spokesperson the Xbox 360, which has been around since 2005, is doing well enough that there’s no need for a successor quite yet. Read the full story at All Things Continue Reading →
Some say the glass is half empty (AT&T has only 28 LTE markets), some say the glass is half full (Verizon has 203 LTE markets) – a physicist would say the glass is 100% full: half liquid, half air (4G is a marketing term, not a technical standard). Let’s review. Unlike 3G which is a Continue Reading →
For some fanboys, camping outside the Apple Store on the eve of a product launch is half the fun of nabbing their new toy; for the rest of you, there’s a chance you can get a new iPad tonight, and still get a few hours of sleep in a warm, dry bed before you have Continue Reading →
There’s a lot of people out there out to create the next generation of television, a fair chunk of them through new TV networks. Witness the more than 100 channel proposals Comcast worked through to come up with four, all independently-owned and operated by people or organizations of color, going on their cable systems between Continue Reading →
Those of you who follow my blog know that I am an optimist. The Shelly Palmer School of Connected Living has one primary thesis: “Technology is good.” This is why I am very excited about this new book Abundance – The Future is Better Than You Think, written by my friend Dr. Peter H. Diamandis, Continue Reading →