Smartphones

Unless you lead a very sheltered life, you have probably read all kinds of stuff about Apple’s new 3G iPhone. Yes, the retail price will be $199 for the 8 GB model. Yes, that makes people who bought an iPhone on May 15th for $399 really mad. But they shouldn’t be. A new 3G iPhone Continue Reading →

  If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. Watch Shelly’s commentary on APPLE’s (NASD:AAPL) pricing plan for the new 3G iPhone and the iPhone application store. The proposed XM (NASD: XMSR), SIRIUS (NASD: SIRI) merger is facing more regulatory hurdles. Sen. Sam Brownback (R.,Kan.) wants an unredacted copy Continue Reading →

  If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. Watch Shelly’s commentary on the SAG – AMPTP negotiations. APPLE (NASD: AAPL) finally unveiled the 3G iphone, available July 11. Steve Jobs presented the mobile smart phone at Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference and as expected the phone comes equipped with Continue Reading →

  If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. Read Shelly’s commentary on the first networked, broadband election and how Senator’s Obama and McCain shape up against each other. Watch Shelly’s commentary on APPLE’s (NASD: AAPL) 3G iPhone, which is expected to be unveiled today at Apple’s Worldwide Developer’s Continue Reading →

  If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube Carl Icahn invokes Ian Fleming and doomsday in a letter to YAHOO (NASD: YHOO). Watch Shelly’s commentary to hear the latest on Icahn’s quest to get the Microsoft-Yahoo deal done. Advertisers are abuzz about the possibilities of APPLE’s (NASD: AAPL) Continue Reading →

  If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube A recent NIELSEN study on digital television shows that 9.4% of TV households, roughly 10 million people, are completely unprepared for the shift from analog to digital. The study also found that nearly 25 million households will have at least Continue Reading →

  If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube YAHOO Chairman ROY BOSTOCK sent CARL ICAHN a letter Thursday that said Icahn’s perspective on the botched MICROSOFT deal “reflects a significant misunderstanding of the facts about the Microsoft proposal.” However, Bostock reiterated that Yahoo remained open to a deal Continue Reading →

  If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube WiMax and the future of broadband. Check out my commentary on the blog. NBC will officially name Jimmy Fallon as the future host of Late Night. Fallon will takeover for Conan O’Brien beginning June of 2009, when O’Brien will begin Continue Reading →

  If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube The US HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES signed the MPAA backed Anti-Piracy PRO-IP Act. The act will create a “White House level piracy czar” and is bound to have a major impact on intellectual property right laws in the US. MICROSOFT has Continue Reading →

How fast was the wireless network on the bridge of the Starship Enterprise? Its mission was to, “boldly go where no one had gone before.” And to do that, Gene Roddenberry imagined a space vehicle the size of a small city with a very powerful computer network and a serious wireless broadband cloud. It may Continue Reading →