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Today’s most interesting stories in technology, media and entertainment: YouTube completed a drastic redesign of its site yesterday. The Google-owned video network simplified its interface in hopes of making the site more intuitive and less cluttered. In addition to removing extraneous links from the video page, YouTube is also getting rid of its five-star rating Continue Reading →

Today’s most interesting stories in technology, media and entertainment: Vodafone HTC smartphones have been shipped with malware. The report comes after Panda Security found the code inside the Android-based smartphone. The virus on the phone spread to PCs the phone was connected to and may have aided in some cases of identity theft. Barnes & Continue Reading →

This week on Digital Life. Webcams are everywhere. What are 5,000 Twitter followers worth? Steve Jobs says Google’s “Don’t be evil” motto is “BS” and you can add Google to the list of companies that are ending support for IE6 (John Abell, wired.com‘s NY Bureau Chief and I discuss), plus I’ll talk with social media Continue Reading →

. Google is reportedly set to transform GMail into a social hub. The move will bring an additional screen to the GMail service that would broadcast status updates and link shares from contacts. Google hopes that users will be able to quickly integrate the new social aspect into their digital lives, just as GChat and Continue Reading →

If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. After being hit with over a foot of snow over the weekend, Twitter users in Washington D.C. organized a snow ball fight. The crowd-sourced snow ball fight was all in good fun, until an off duty police officer brandished a gun Continue Reading →

If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. Facebook’s new privacy controls mean that publishing for Everyone is now the default setting. Users who do not customize their settings will therefore be sharing any updates, links or pictures publicly with any one on the network. However, the new privacy Continue Reading →

If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. BitTorrent giant Mininova has been forced to go legal. In doing so, the bit torrent tracker has removed all links to copyrighted material. Despite claiming to be “the Ultimate BitTorrent source,” on Friday, when it went legal, zero torrents were added Continue Reading →

If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. Toys “R” Us is giving customers the opportunity to preview its Holiday sales online Rather than publish its Black Friday deals in newspapers, the popular toy store is previewing its sales event on Facebook. The sales preview is not only a Continue Reading →

If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. Walmart continues to roll out holiday specials including a $78 Blu-ray player sale on Black Friday. In addition to the low price Blu-ray consoles, Walmart will also be selling $10 Blu-ray movies on Black Friday. With low price players and films, Continue Reading →

If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. The music industry video portal Vevo will launch December 8th. The site, associated with both Sony and Universal, uses YouTube’s platform to host and stream high quality, official music videos from artists. Vevo’s goal is to reclaim the “premium luster” of Continue Reading →