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Twitter has unintentionally sent a password reset email to users whose accounts hadn’t been compromised, the company announced on its status page. As you may remember, the company had emailed an undetermined but apparently large number of users a few hours ago, asking them to reset their password, leading to a flurry of tweets discussing the Continue Reading →

[wpaudio url=”https://media.shellypalmer.com/wp-content/images/usrn/121108_SHELLYPALMER_GEN_BED.mp3″ text=”Click to play … ” dl=”0″] The year of social media just keeps on truckin’. On Tuesday night, President Barack Obama was re-elected for a second term after he hit the magic number of 270 Electoral College votes. That wasn’t the only Obama-related number of significance from Tuesday night, however. Obama’s “Four More Continue Reading →

President Barack Obama was re-elected on Tuesday evening after defeating republican candidate Gov. Mitt Romney 303 to 206 and winning an estimated 50% of the popular vote. Shortly after the president’s win was secured, an image was posted from his Twitter account along with the text “Four more years.” According to a report from BuzzFeed, Continue Reading →

Each week, Team Shelly Palmer sends me a prompt for this column, focusing on a topical event or idea, which I then explore in regards to the future. This past week, the last week of October 2012, I received no prompt. I hadn’t really expected to. It’s been a hard week on the east coast Continue Reading →

Depending on who you ask, and indeed how much you even care, Tuesday night is going to be a long one. If you buy the arguments of the prognosticators lean on the latest national polls such as this one from The Wall Street Journal and NBC News the race will go down to the wire, with Continue Reading →

As with the apology that appeared on Apple’s web site, this “apology” isn’t called an apology and doesn’t contain the word “sorry” or anything vaguely similar. It’s a small, short, factual summary of the case in which Samsung was found not to have copied Apple’s iPad design, along with a link to the ruling we Continue Reading →

While many New York City residents returned to work Wednesday, the city’s cellphone service remains strained — and a source of frustration for those trying to communicate. Much of Lower Manhattan is still without wireless or wireline service, and mobile-phone users across the city complained on Twitter about service problems that seem to be increasing in Continue Reading →

Technology has made things a whole lot easier for child predators and pornography sites. It turns out they’re getting much of their material straight from kids’ online accounts. A new study found that 88% of sexual or suggestive images — taken and uploaded to social networks by children and young people themselves — are ending Continue Reading →

Price was perhaps always the most anticipated feature of the iPad mini, and now it’s proving the most controversial. My Twitter stream has been filled with arguments back and forth on the iPad mini’s $329 price tag, with many weighing in saying it’s too expensive and that Apple missed the mark. It’s a funny discussion Continue Reading →

For years now, Facebook and Twitter have had their respective “Like” and “Favorite” buttons. They’re simple, straightforward ways to show appreciation for a status update or a tweet without verbally replying (and Google, too, has its +1 button.). They’re popular, too: Facebook processes nearly three billion “Likes” on a daily basis. Now, on Monday, according Continue Reading →