If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. NBC has a new idea that’s been around since the 50’s. The network will begin involving certain sponsors in show development. One deal will be a two-movie partnership with Liberty Mutual focusing on the excitement of insurance policies, responsibility and Continue Reading →
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If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. GOOGLE is using April 1st to roll out a number of exciting new initiatives. The company has unveiled a joint venture with Virgin called Virgle, the first human settlement on Mars. Users can sign up online to be a Virgle Continue Reading →
If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. SHELLY PALMER probes several issues surrounding digital rights. What are your rights as Digital Citizens of the United States? Do we have a national broadband policy? What is it? What should it be? Read about digital deficiency and how it Continue Reading →
If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. COMCAST plans an imminent release of the first system that allows television ads to be targeted to the individual household level. The system will reportedly be deployed this June to over 100,000 homes in Baltimore. The technology is being developed Continue Reading →
Children born in America this year will be the first true Digital Natives of the Information Age. They will grow up in a time when all of their telecommunications tools: video, voice and data are based completely upon digital technology. It is an interesting historical footnote, to be sure. But it made me wonder: What Continue Reading →
If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. YOUTUBE has added Insight, a new feature that tracks when and where videos are being watched. Insight breaks down views by both geography and time, giving video publishers some powerful new performance data. The tool has a number of practical Continue Reading →
If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. COMCAST and TIME WARNER CABLE are in discussions to fund a WiMax joint venture with SPRINT and CLEARWIRE. The current deal calls for Comcast to invest $1 billion and TWC to put in $500 million. Bright House Networks, Google and Continue Reading →
If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. SHELLY PALMER analyzes Antigua’s threat to undermine U.S. copyright laws by legalizing piracy. Read this week’s essay to learn about the 1st InfoWar. GOOGLE submitted a letter to the FCC requesting that the “white spaces” between television channels be authorized Continue Reading →
If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. SHELLY PALMER analyzes Antigua’s threat to undermine U.S. copyright laws by legalizing piracy. Read this week’s essay to learn about the 1st InfoWar. MARCH MADNESS streamed 2.8 million hours of video during Round 1 alone, compared to last year’s total Continue Reading →
The reason for the threat of InfoWar, according to a representative of the Island, is that the United States is not negotiating fairly in a dispute over Internet gambling. Apparently, we owe Antigua $21 million dollars and they really want the money. If they don’t get it, they will tighten-up our debt by stealing music, Continue Reading →