Media & Entertainment

If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. In less than a week since he passed away, Michael Jackson has sold over 2.6 million digital songs. Digital sale of Jackson’s song in the past week shattered the old record, making Jackson the first artist to sell more than a Continue Reading →

If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. AEG will offer ticket holders for Michael Jackson’s sold-out This Is It tour a full refund. The concert promoter was responsible for the 50 sold out shows Jackson was to perform at London’s O2 Arena. While AEG sold approximately one million Continue Reading →

If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. Comcast has teamed up with Clearwire to offer one of the first 4G wireless data networks. Comcast High-Speed 2go will go live today in Portland and with offerings in Atlanta, Chicago and Philadelphia planned by the end of the year. This Continue Reading →

If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. Comcast and Time Warner have scheduled a press conference to announce that the two companies will partner to roll out TV Everywhere. TW CEO Jeff Bewkes and Comcast CEO Brian Roberts are expected to note that Time Warner and Comcast will Continue Reading →

If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. Apple announced that the company sold over one million iPhone 3GS units this past weekend. Apple also reported that more than six million iPhone users have updated to the iPhone 3.0 operating system. While there was less hype than when the Continue Reading →

If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Apple CEO Steve Jobs had a liver transplant during his medical leave. The article notes that Job received the transplant in April, 4 months after he left Apple, and has taken the last two Continue Reading →

Last week I wrote a short missive about a problem I was having with a very vocal minority of my daily MediaBytes video viewers regarding a pre-roll ad. Apparently, making money with online video is a very hot topic, as evidenced by the several thousand email responses to the article. (You can read last week’s Continue Reading →

If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. Jammie Thomas-Rasset, the mom who was caught file-sharing by the RIAA, has been charged with infringing 24 copyright laws during a retrial. Thomas will be forced to pay the recorded music company’s a total of $1.92 million, roughly $80,000 per song Continue Reading →

If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. Google is set to introduce a micro-blog search engine. The company reported on its blog that the users will soon be able to search Twitter and other micro-blog services through a channel similar to its Google blog and Google news search Continue Reading →

If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. “Billy Elliot The Musical” dominated the Tony’s last night, taking home 10 Tony Awards. “God of Carnage” picked up the most awards for a straight play and Liza Minelli won ‘best special theatrical event’ edging out Will Ferrell and the Chinese Continue Reading →