If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. Disney has officially become an equity-owning partner in NBCU-Fox venture Hulu. The deal ensures that programming from both ABC and the Disney Channel, amongst other Disney owned networks, will air on the popular streaming site. CEO Robert Iger noted that “Disney Continue Reading →
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If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. Massachusetts Congressman Barney Frank may introduce a bill to overturn the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act as early as this week. The bill was signed and passed in 2006 as the US government hurried to combat illegal online betting operations, many Continue Reading →
If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. Yahoo is set to officially shut down GeoCities by the end of 2009. The free personal web-page host, which Yahoo acquired in 1999, is a relic from the Web 1.0 era, which cost Yahoo an estimated $4.6 billion. The service will Continue Reading →
If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. News Corp is firing MySpace CEO and Co-Founder Chris DeWolfe. DeWolfe, who has been with MySpace since its launch in 2003, ran the company when News Corp acquired it for $580 million in 2005. It has been reported that former Facebook Continue Reading →
If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. During his weekly video address, President Obama named Aneesh Chopra the United States first Chief Technology Officer. President Obama noted that Chopra, who has served as Virginia’s secretary of technology, along with Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra, “will promote technological innovation Continue Reading →
If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. New York congressman Eric Massa announced that he will introduce a bill that would make bandwidth caps for heavy broadband users illegal. The representative for Corning, NY, where Time Warner Cable plans to test tiered broadband plans, noted that the unlimited Continue Reading →
If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. Amazon and Wal-Mart have joined Apple in variable pricing for music downloads. While some consumers are angry with the digital retailers, it is the record companies, not the retailers, who were pushing for tiered pricing. Blockbuster revealed to the SEC that Continue Reading →
If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. The Associated Press announced that it will require websites to obtain permission in order to use AP and member publications content on site. The decision is a direct move to stop search engines and news aggregators, like Google and Huffington Post, Continue Reading →
In Metamerica (the data that describes America), we are all a bunch of ones and zeros. Everything about us, our tax id number, social security number, credit card numbers, contact information, financial data, medical history, entertainment preferences, our computer software, the content we own, everything we are, is described by ones and zeros on a magnetic or optical storage device somewhere. Continue Reading →
If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. A month before its scheduled premier, a work print of X-Men Origins: Wolverine has leaked to the Internet. While Fox claims the leak is a “rough cut without FX, music, and may contain an April Fool’s virus,” many torrent users, who Continue Reading →