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Shelly Palmer Radio Report – February 27, 2013

Shelly Palmer Radio Report – February 27, 2013

It’s a great time to be a baseball fan. Spring Training has begun and opening day is little over a month away. Major League Baseball is helping you stay more connected to your team with its updated At Bat app on Android and iOS. The app will also be ready for BlackBerry 10 by opening day. Android users from last year ...

MLB At Bat 13 App Charging Unsuspecting Users $125, Bypassing Apple Purchase Security

MLB At Bat 13 App Charging Unsuspecting Users $125, Bypassing Apple Purchase Security

For many followers of Major League Baseball, the February 21st update of the MLB.com At Bat application heralded the arrival of baseball for the 2013 season. But for an unknown number of At Bat app users, it also meant an unexpected charge of $124.99 on their credit card. In 2012, the At Bat app changed formats and became a ...

MLB At Bat 13 App Updated to Feature Cross-Platform Subscriptions

MLB At Bat 13 App Updated to Feature Cross-Platform Subscriptions

One of our favorite sports apps on any platform, MLB At Bat 13, is getting a nice update with the release of its spring training edition. An initial set of features is live in the app, but it will be updated with even more on the start of the regular season. Last year there was a split because Android phones couldn’t ...

Twitter CEO Dick Costolo Was the NBA’s All-Star Game Big Winner

Twitter CEO Dick Costolo Was the NBA’s All-Star Game Big Winner

Now that the dust has settled and regular games are starting back up again, it's important to take note of one of NBA All-Star Weekend's biggest winners. We're not talking about Chris Paul. We're definitely not talking about 2 Chainz. We're talking, in fact, about Twitter CEO Dick Costolo. The NBA, more than any other ...

Google Maps Takes a Tour of the Indianapolis Colts’ Stadium

Google Maps Takes a Tour of the Indianapolis Colts’ Stadium

Wish you could sneak into the locker room of your favorite National Football League (NFL) team or see what it's like to run out of the tunnel on game day? Google announced on Friday it's bringing NFL stadium imagery to Google Maps, starting with an inside look at where the Indianapolis Colts play. By searching for Lucas Oil ...

The Big Question: How Do You Reach Customers?

The Big Question: How Do You Reach Customers?

If anything, the blackout during the Super Bowl confused things even more regarding where companies should target their communications to customers. A multi-modal approach still seems to be the answer. Okay, so the blackout— The lights went out in the Superdome in New Orleans during last Sunday’s game. Because it ...

Shelly Palmer chats with Antwan Lewis and Juliet Huddy on Fox 5′s Good Day Wake Up About the High Tech Super Bowl

Shelly Palmer chats with Antwan Lewis and Juliet Huddy on Fox 5′s Good Day Wake Up About the High Tech Super Bowl

Shelly Palmer chats with Antwan Lewis and Juliet Huddy on Fox 5's Good Day Wake Up about the high tech Super Bowl. ...

Shelly Palmer Radio Report – February 5, 2013

Shelly Palmer Radio Report – February 5, 2013

The numbers are in, and it turns out that the Ravens weren’t Sunday’s big winners. As in most major televised events, viewers took to Twitter in droves, sending over 24.1 million tweets during Sunday night’s game. For comparison’s sake, when Barack Obama defeated Mitt Romney in November, that six-hour window ...

Twitter Users Send 24.1 Million Super Bowl Tweets

Twitter Users Send 24.1 Million Super Bowl Tweets

This year's Super Bowl started with the Ravens crushing the 49ers. Then after a 108-yard kickoff return by the Ravens at the beginning of the second half, a power outage delayed the game for more than 30 minutes. Following the delay, the 49ers got their mojo working and the two teams, and two brother coaches, battled ...

Twitter Mentioned in Half of All Super Bowl Commercials

Twitter Mentioned in Half of All Super Bowl Commercials

The big winner of the Super Bowl may have been Twitter. Not only was this the most tweeted Super Bowl ever with more than 24 million tweets about the game, but Twitter as a company was also mentioned in far more ads than any of its social media competitors. Twitter was mentioned in about half of the 52 national commercials ...