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If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. Microsoft introduced Windows 7, officially ending the poor Vista years. The seventh incarnation of Windows is expected to be a slimmer, more responsive operating system. The folks at Redmond have not announced when Windows 7 will hit the market. CW Continue Reading →
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If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. A jury convicted Senator Ted “Tubes” Stevens on all seven felony counts which violated federal ethics laws. Stevens is guilty of failing to report thousands of dollars in gifts and home renovations. Stevens, who was until recently Alaska’s most prominent Continue Reading →
If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. Dave Westin, President of ABC News, sent a company wide email notifying employees of drastic budget cuts. ABC News, which is trying to limit expenses asked that executives take coach flights, stay in cheaper hotels, while canceling all print subscriptions. Continue Reading →
A few years ago, I had the pleasure of hearing Jack Stanley, director of the Thomas Edison Menlo Park Museum, speak about the life and times of the inventor. From 1876 to about 1884, Edison got about 400 patents, a rate of almost one a week. Stanley called Edison, the New Jersey town, “the center Continue Reading →
Had the pleasure Wednesday of seeing Michael Chin of Kickapps do a (kickass) presentation in my Digital Marketing class at Baruch’s biz school. He demonstrated not only how social media centered around a brand or organization can cultivate enthusiasm (and generally give an indicator of sentiment), but also how much mineable data there is about each participant Continue Reading →
If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. Sony drastically cut its financial forecast, with analysts noting that its profit for the fiscal year ending in March 2009 could plunge 59% from the year before. Sony expects to post a $215.2 million profit for July-September, down 72% from Continue Reading →
If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. Yesterday the Dow Jones closed at 8519, near its five year low. The story did not make the front page of the New York Times nor the evening news. Forget Joe the Plumber, where is Joe the Businessman? Amazon’s 3Q Continue Reading →
If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. Google’s first Android enabled phone, the G1, will go on sale today. Google has also made the code for Android available to developers through an Apache 2.0 license that lets developers add to the codebase. The open-source mobile device, available Continue Reading →