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Companies including Google, Yahoo, Microsoft and AOL are working on a system to help prevent users from receiving malicious emails. The group’s goal is to make email a more secure messaging system, where sensitive data like bank information can be transmitted safely. A whitelisting verification process could limit spammers from sending messages from domains they Continue Reading →

This story has been updated. Hope isn’t lost if you used Megaupload.com to store personal files. Prosecutors are working on a deal with the companies storing the data and hope to release your files in the near future. The data is being stored for at least another two weeks while negotiations are being made. Read Continue Reading →

AT&T announced that the highly anticipated Samsung Note would be available February 19th. The 4G LTE smartphone has a huge 5.3-inch screen and includes a stylus that converts your handwriting to text. It costs $300 with a two-year contract and pre-orders begin February 5th. Read the full article at Engadget.com Continue Reading →

A report found that users of the Kindle Fire are spending more time on the device than any other Android tablet. It took less than three months on the market to edge out Samsung’s Galaxy Tab. Even though there are about twice as many Galaxy Tabs activated, people who bought the Kindle Fire are actually Continue Reading →

[wpaudio url=”https://media.shellypalmer.com/wp-content/images/usrn/120131_SHELLYPALMER_GEN_BED.mp3″ text=”Click to play … ” dl=”0″] Companies including Google, Yahoo, Microsoft and AOL are working on a system to help prevent users from receiving malicious emails. The group’s goal is to make email a more secure messaging system, where sensitive data like bank information can be transmitted safely. In other news, hope isn’t Continue Reading →

The three forces of the Shift Age are the Flow to Global, the Flow to the Individual and the Accelerated Electronic Connectedness of the planet. There are 7 billion humans alive today and 5.3 billion of them have cell phones. 3 billion people connect to the Internet every day. These are the forces and the Continue Reading →

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Shelly chats with Steven Lacy and Heather Nauert on Fox 5’s Good Day NY, about Google’s new privacy policy, Twitter censoring Tweets and Facebook’s Timeline. Continue Reading →

Facebook is expected to file for its initial public offering as early as Wednesday. The social network could be valued as high as $100 billion, putting it among the likes of McDonald’s and Citigroup. No tech company’s IPO has been valued so high since Google’s in 2004. Read the full article at HuffingtonPost.com Continue Reading →

Twitter is forced to censor tweets when a government requests they do so. In the past, the site was forced to block the content worldwide, but its new system aims to reduce that censorship. Content will still remain blocked in that country, but made available everywhere else. Read the full article at PCMag.com Continue Reading →