Shelly Palmer Radio Report – December 16, 2011

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Facebook has begun rolling out a major redesign to users’ profile pages called Timeline. The new format displays your wall posts and status updates as a giant collage, separating the events by month and year. For better or worse, the new look will let you take a scroll down memory lane. In other news, smartphones are everywhere, but just how popular are they? A report by Nielsen found that 44% of all U.S. cellphones are smartphones, up from 18% just two years ago. Not surprisingly, Apple’s iPhone 4 is still the best selling smartphone on the market. And finally, Amazon announced that the Kindle Fire has been the company’s bestselling product since it was available for purchase nearly 3 months ago. Amazon’s entire line of Kindle devices is flying off the shelves, selling over 1 million units a week.

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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).