Technology

  • When Phones Explode

    Shelly Palmer Overheard: “I’d buy a Samsung Note7, but they explode.” No, they don’t. Defective lithium-ion batteries explode. This is an important distinction. And regardless of the sensationalist claims you’ve heard from ratings-seekers and clickbaiters, lithium-ion batteries don’t explode very often. Here’s what you need to know. From Smartphones...
  • Apple iPhone 7: Are You Kidding Me?

    Shelley Palmer Let me get right to the point. The new iPhone 7 is a fantastic, awesome, incredible, spectacular iteration of the iPhone 6. Great processor (a quad-core, 64-bit A10 Fusion), outstanding rear-facing camera (12 MP), a new wireless chip (W1) to facilitate Bluetooth connectivity, iOS 10, a pressure-sensitive...
  • A Few Weeks with the Samsung Galaxy Note7: Review

    Shelly Palmer The Galaxy Note7 is Samsung’s newest, fastest and best handheld to date. Rather than dress up the very successful Note5, Samsung skipped a generation (by number only) and dubbed the new device the Note7 to bring it into line (in features, look and feel) with its Galaxy...
  • Your Comfort Zone May Destroy the World

    Shelly Palmer Here’s what’s going to happen. You are going to read this post up to the point where you agree with me or you don’t. Then, either you will find something else to do or, if I have your attention, you will write a comment or an email...
  • Facebook Is Killing Clickbait

    Shelly Palmer  Much has been written about why and how Facebook is killing clickbait and what effect that might have on publishers, agencies and marketers. But to truly understand the impact of this newly updated anti-clickbait algorithm, you need to consider a few other recent Facebook policy changes that,...
  • The Video Selfie That Changed the World

    Shelly Palmer Today, there are over 2 billion ordinary people carrying social network–connected video cameras. Notwithstanding what you’re hearing from talking heads on TV, this is not new news. The number of smartphones is racing toward 3 billion, and the trajectory and pace of this technological change are well...
  • ¡VAMOS A GOZAR!

    San Francisco Pokemon Go Crawl Wednesday, July 20, 2016 6:00 pm to 1:00 am All over San Francisco FREE RSVP on Facebook at <https://www.facebook.com/events/1779733858973460/> for updates and route (to be announced). The event will start as a street crawl (for all) then turn into a bar crawl (21+).  ...
  • Are we really heading for a coal-free power future ?

    Roddy Scheer & Doug Moss EarthTalk Far from just an environmental pipedream, the coal industry in the U.S. and around the world is in the midst of a major downswing. In 2011, coal dropped below 40 percent of total U.S. energy generation for the first time since the late...
  • Twitter is in Trouble

    All successful social media businesses have one thing in common: they are constantly growing their user bases. Sadly, Twitter reported 320 million users in the December quarter, flat with the previous quarter and up 9% YoY, missing analysts’ expectations by 5 million users. And to make matters worse, the...
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