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As most of you know, I am the host of a daily, two-minute show called, MediaBytes with Shelly Palmer. It is not a television show, although it can be seen on TV. It is not a radio show, although it is broadcast on dozens of news/talk radio stations. It is not a video blog, although Continue Reading →

If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. After six months of medical leave, Steve Jobs is set to return to Apple. While many predicted that the company would be lost without Jobs, its stock is back over $140 again, where it was in late August before the financial Continue Reading →

If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. Acer is set to be the first PC manufacturer to package its netbooks with Google’s Android operating system. One of the finest selling points about Google’s OS is that its free, which allows Acer to sell its netbooks at an event Continue Reading →

The Inter-web is in over-tweet! The citizens of Facebookistan are being phished and spammed. 20-somethings are ditching Facebook and creating LinkedIn profiles so they can join the “real world.” And no one ever speaks of MySpace in polite company. Tweet, tweet, tweet or, should I say, yammer, yammer yammer? There are a few thousand companies Continue Reading →

If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. It’s getting tough to be Twitter. They’re short on employees, short on revenue and, some say, short on service. The good news is that both Evan Williams and Biz Stone, Twitter’s co-founders know that they’re in over their head and they Continue Reading →

If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger announced that he plans to take his case with the Entertainment Software Alliance over the sale of violent video games to minors to the Supreme Court. Governer Schwarzenegger introduced and passed the bill in 2005, which was Continue Reading →

If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. Twitter co-founder Biz Stone told a Reuters conference that the company is “not pursuing advertising.” Instead, Stone noted that Twitter will give businesses access to analytics for a price, as well as a database of commercial data. Stone also said that Continue Reading →

In our last episode, Debbie's Facebook account had been hijacked. She would receive random notes from her friends telling her that they suspected that her account had been hacked, but everything looked fine. Then, the cybercriminal opened a chat to me from her account typing, "... still stuck in London." Since, at that very moment, Debbie was standing next to me, it was pretty obvious we had a problem. Continue Reading →

If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. Google experienced a bevy of screw-ups yesterday. Users were complaining all over Twitter that the search giant’s GMail service, as well as Google News and Reader, were experiencing outages during the morning. While problems have been resolved, the outages were prevalent Continue Reading →

If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. Craiglist announced that it will get rid of the “erotic services” portion of its site. The popular web-based classifieds site has been under scrutiny over the section, which houses thousands of ads for sexual services, many of which are probably illegal. Continue Reading →