Shelly Palmer Radio Report – February 23, 2011

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Apple’s iPad 2 may finally be on its way to store shelves. A rumor from within Apple says that the company will announce the device during an event on March 2nd. The release would be consistent with Apple’s production cycle and could step on the heels of Motorola’s Xoom launch. In other news, Amazon.com is offering unlimited streaming of television shows and movies for Amazon Prime subscribers. For $79 a year, customers get free 2-day shipping and access to Amazon’s library of over 5,000 shows and movies. The company’s war chest of cash allows it to pay high licensing costs of media so consumers don’t. And finally, a new scientific study showed that 50-minutes on a cell phone is enough to change your brain’s cell activity. Areas closest to the antenna showed an increase in brain metabolism, but that isn’t necessarily bad news. Much larger shifts in metabolism happen naturally.

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Shelly Palmer

Shelly Palmer is Fox 5 New York's On-air Tech Expert (WNYW-TV) and the host of Fox Television's monthly show Shelly Palmer Digital Living. He also hosts United Stations Radio Network's, Shelly Palmer Digital Living Daily, a daily syndicated radio report that features insightful commentary and a unique insiders take on the biggest stories in technology, media, and entertainment. He is Managing Director of Advanced Media Ventures Group, LLC an industry-leading advisory and business development firm and a member of the Executive Committee of the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (the organization that bestows the coveted Emmy® Awards).