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If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. Depending who you ask, Barnes & Noble’s new eReader is due out today, or Thursday, which would be interesting since it’s Windows 7 day. B&N leaked a picture to the Wall Street Journal of the eReader that features an eInk display Continue Reading →

If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. After days of outrageous coverage, a Colorado Sheriff is now saying that the Balloon Boy hoax was “publicity stunt” to generate buzz for a reality show. Richard Henne, the controversial father behind the weather balloon stunt, reportedly had been planning the Continue Reading →

The Paley Center for Media billed it as, “The Great Digital Debate: Free vs. Paid Content Online” a luncheon conversation sponsored by KPMG in the very nice boardroom at the Paley Center. The key debaters were Steven Brill, Cofounder, Journalism Online and Vivian Schiller, CEO of NPR. Free food and a bunch of smart people Continue Reading →

If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. Google is set to launch a digital book store to rival Amazon and Barnes and Noble. Google’s online store will open up next year with approximately 500,000 for sale. Google will split revenue with publishers, giving the publishers 63% when selling Continue Reading →

If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. Twitter is increasing its global appeal by partnering with Indian wireless communications company Bharti Airtel on an SMS deal. The partnership will allow Bharti Airtel’s 110 million wireless users to send free text messages to Twitter. While texting Twitter won’t be Continue Reading →

If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. Twitter is helping users with Spam problems by allowing them to report suspected spam accounts. Users have been vocal in their annoyance of spam followers and the lack of protection from spam accounts by Twitter’s security network. As the micro-blogging service Continue Reading →

If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. After thousands of users lost contacts and personal data, T-Mobile says that much of the information lost may be able to be retrieved. The company know believes data may be able to be recovered. In adittion, T-Mobile is offering Sidekick users Continue Reading →

If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. Microsoft and T-Mobile are trying to explain to Sidekick users why all of their information has been lost. Over the weekend, a technical issue caused T-Mobile Sidekick users to lose all of their stored contacts, photos and other data saved on Continue Reading →

This week on Digital Life with Shelly Palmer, media junkies, Twitter goes global, Microsoft and T-mobile lose a ton of user data and e-books are the new, new thing. Plus, I’ll talk with the founder of USA Networks and current chairman of Liz Claiborne, Kay Koplovitz, and I’ll discuss the state of the media business Continue Reading →

On the subject of blogger endorsement guidelines, the FTC said: “The commission disagrees with those who suggest that including in the guides examples based on these new media would interfere with the vibrancy of these new forms of communication, or that the commission should, instead, defer to industry self-regulation,” the commission wrote. “The guides merely Continue Reading →