If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. NBCU, Time Warner, News Corp, Viacom, CBS, Disney and Discovery Communications are teaming to create a rival to the Nielsen metric system. The media conglomerate is also working with major advertisers like AT&T and Proctor & Gamble, as well as ad Continue Reading →
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If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. The Marine Corps has banned social networking sites including, Twitter, Facebook and MySpace because they create a larger attack and exploitation window, expose unnecessary information to adversaries and provide an easy conduit for information leakage that puts security and personnel at Continue Reading →
If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. Now that Yahoo is leasing Microsoft search technology, Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz said that the company will focus on developing other properties. Bartz noted that the former search company will invest their split of the search money in display ads and Continue Reading →
If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. Nielsen is reporting that over 31 million people viewed Michael Jackson’s funeral on television. While the number is very high, it does not take into account the millions of viewers who streamed the coverage through a variety of streaming sites, nor Continue Reading →
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. 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. 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. The State Department asked Twitter to delay a “critical network upgrade” scheduled for yesterday in order for civilian reporters in Tehran to use the micro-blog as a means for communication. Meanwhile, thousands of Twitter users have changed their time zone stamp Continue Reading →
If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. Sprint is happy to report that the Palm Pre sold more units in its first weekend than any other device the company has launched. Sources say that the between 50,000 and 100,000 Pre’s were sold last weekend. Accordingly, almost 80% of Continue Reading →
If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. This coming Friday will mark the transition from analog to digital television. While this may seem like a big deal, most major markets have been delivering a purely digital signal for quite some time. Despite the fact that Congress and President Continue Reading →