If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. The shocking Earthquake in Haiti is getting relief from text messages. The Red Cross set up a text hotline where users are able to pledge $10 to the relief effort simply by texting Haiti to 90999. The hotline, which charges the Continue Reading →
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If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. Worried about Facebook’s privacy changes? The Electronic Privacy Information Center filed a complaint against the social network with the FTC, noting that the update to the privacy settings “violate user expectations, diminish user privacy, and contradict Facebook’s own representations.” Google’s Translator Continue Reading →
I’ve had my Verizon Droid for a couple of weeks now and, no, it’s not an iPhone killer or a BlackBerry killer, but it is a wonderful phone and a device that everyone looking for a new smartphone should consider. I like the Droid. I don’t love it. That being said, if you only want Continue Reading →
If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. Microsoft may ban as many as one million XBox Live users for modifying their consoles or playing illegal games. The company believes that between 600,000 and a million users have played pirated games on their system, or modified their Xbox console Continue Reading →
If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. A report by the Yankee Group believes that smartphone users will have downloaded over 7 billion applications by 2013. The research group estimates that in the next 4 years smartphone users will quadruple, effectively bringing sales of apps to $4.2 billion Continue Reading →
If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. Google’s GMail service went down for a few hours yesterday. The service error sent many into a panic, as millions of people rely heavily on Gmail in order to conduct business. The outage, which last for a good portion of the Continue Reading →
“Hacker Croll,” an eponymously named hacker, was able to get access to some very sensitive business documents from Twitter’s Google Apps account this week. It was a very high profile hack, and quite embarrassing for Twitter. People familiar with the incident say that the hacker was able to easily figure out the security question to Continue Reading →
If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. Twitter users have experienced hacks in their account that have been penetrated through Google Apps. Google’s Gmail, Docs & Spreadsheets, Calendar are accessible through Twitter, however, for the third time this year, a hacker has received access to a Twitter account Continue Reading →
If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. Pandora and other online radio companies received great news yesterday when the Copyright Royalty Board agreed to a new set of royalty regulations for streaming sites. The board ruled that Internet radio stations will each pay SoundExchange based on how much 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 →