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If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. Microsoft has revealed its new line of smart phones it hopes will compete with RIM’s BlackBerry and Apple’s iPhone. The new line of HTC handsets on AT&T, Verizon and Sprint will feature touch-screen pads, as well as access Microsoft’s patented Office Continue Reading →

If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. Twitter is raising money at a $1 billion valuation. The micro-blogging service is hoping to raise approximately $50 million at the $1 billion valuation. While the company still doesn’t have a true business plan, let alone generates revenue, it very well Continue Reading →

If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. After a lengthy legal battle, an arbitrator has ruled that Jeremy Piven did not breach his contract when he left the Broadway production of Speed the Plow. The controversial case came to after Piven abruptly left the production, claiming he had Continue Reading →

If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. Yesterday we lost two of our dearest pop-culture icons. Farah Fawcett, the subject of the best selling poster of all time and Michael Jackson, the musical force behind the best selling album of all time. Their untimely passings brought their extraordinary Continue Reading →

  If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. Jeremy Piven was back on Broadway yesterday for a hearing between Actor’s Equity and the Broadway League over his early departure from Speed-the-Plow. Sources say Piven broke down several times during the hearing, however, a ruling in the case was Continue Reading →

If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. 421 television stations are set to switch to digital television today. In total, 641 television stations, roughly 36% of stations, will have already made the switch, despite the government mandated delay. The FCC granted all 10 stations who pleaded financial hardship Continue Reading →

  If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. Google and Yahoo will narrow the focus of their search ads deal in order to win approval from the Department of Justice. The revised plans have a two-year limit on the deal, which was expected to last ten, while revenue Continue Reading →

  If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. Watch Shelly’s commentary on VERIZON’s (NYSE: VZ) decision to block access to the Usenet hierarchy. Tiger Wood’s helped NBC (NYSE: GE) receive the highest overnight ratings for the US Open in six years. The golfer, whose quest for the US Continue Reading →

Back in 1960 the skills required to become President of the United States changed forever.  That was the year that John F. Kennedy debated Richard M. Nixon on national network television for the first time.  When reminiscing about Kennedy’s win, pundits love to cite that he was tanned, good looking, had great hair and had Continue Reading →

  If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. SHELLY PALMER analyzes Amazon’s latest move in the techno-rebellion against the retail industry. Read on to see how 3G phones, white-space devices and future wireless technologies may impact retail stores. MICROSOFT increased its pressure on Yahoo, threatening to begin a Continue Reading →