If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. Last night the British news wire Sky News announced that Yoko Ono said the Beatles catalog would soon be available on iTunes. Soon after the post appeared on the news company’s site, it was removed. While the news was most certainly Continue Reading →
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If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. Rep. Rick Boucher is drafting a bill that would impose new rules on Web sites and advertisers. The Representative for Virginia hopes the bill will ensure that consumers know what information is being collected about them and how it is being Continue Reading →
MediaBytes will return on Tuesday, September 8, 2009. If you’re looking for something to do, how about some self-study courses? You can learn the best tips and techniques for Google, Google Apps, LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter online or on DVD. I’ll be back on Tuesday with the top stories in technology, media and entertainment. 🙂 Continue Reading →
If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. Google’s GMail service went down for a few hours yesterday. The service error sent many into a panic, as millions of people rely heavily on Gmail in order to conduct business. The outage, which last for a good portion of the Continue Reading →
If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. Fox will begin interweaving Twitter into the fabric of its shows. Specifically, Fox is scheduled to air “tweet-peats” of shows like Fringe and Glee, which will feature messages from cast and crew about the show via Twitter. The move is a Continue Reading →
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If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. Web video viewing continued to increase in America with over 158 million users viewing 21.4 billion videos online in July. The report, which shows that broadband usage is high, noted that 81% of US internet users are watching content online. Whether Continue Reading →
In November of 2005, I wrote this blog post as a kind of tongue-in-cheek presagement. I was thinking about how an unregulated connected future might unfold. I made a very "low tech" Web site (as a joke) using images I found around the net and just forgot to take it down. Over the past few weeks, I have received several emails and telephone calls about the WiMax Price Club. Apparently, there are some folks out there who think it is real. Maybe it should be... Continue Reading →
If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. After a lengthy legal battle, an arbitrator has ruled that Jeremy Piven did not breach his contract when he left the Broadway production of Speed the Plow. The controversial case came to after Piven abruptly left the production, claiming he had Continue Reading →
If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. Facebook has begun letting users pay for Facebook Credits with their mobile phones. The move comes as Facebook begins to develop revenue streams separate from ad revenue. Facebook is also hard at work developing a PayPal like system for making payments Continue Reading →