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  If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. After much debate, President Barack Obama will get to keep his PDA. However, reports are that he won’t be using a BlackBerry, rather a Sectera Edge, “developed for the National Security Agency’s Secure Mobile Environment Portable Electronic Device (SME PED)” Continue Reading →

  If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. Nielsen is reporting that nearly 40 million Americans watched the Inauguration of President Barack Obama on television. While the largest television audience recorded during an inauguration came for Ronald Reagan in 1981 (41.8 million viewers), a pure TV rating is Continue Reading →

At some point, he will need a specific salary to cover his lifestyle. Let's call it $90,000 per year. At this writing, there are still jobs to be had at that pay grade. If you went to an institution of higher learning and put in a few hard-working years, it is not an unreasonable amount of money. Continue Reading →

  If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. House Democrats have proposed injecting an additional $650 million into the digital TV coupon program. The government mandated program, which is set to run out of money, was originally given $1.34 billion for the coupon program. While the Bush administration Continue Reading →

  If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. President-elect Barack Obama’s plan to delay the DTV transition may postpone the switch 90 days. Currently, Senator Jay Rockefeller is preparing the legislation, which AT&T, one of the telco’s who purchased spectrum to be available February 17th, endorses. However, Verizon Continue Reading →

If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. Slumdog Millionaire and HBO lead the way at the Golden Globes last night. Danny Boyle’s film about a game show contestant from Mumbai took home four Golden Globes, while HBO took home seven for shows like John Adams, In Treatment and Continue Reading →

  If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. Intel’s revenue for the fourth quarter fell 23% over last year. Intel had warned investors that revenue for the fourth quarter would be down, however, the chip manufacturer still fell short of its predicted forecast of $8.7-9.3 billion, down from Continue Reading →

If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. YouTube will begin selling search ads. The ads will appear on search result queries, part of its effort to increase ad revenue. Advertisers will be able to bid on specific keywords, in order to find an appropriate location for ads. LG, Continue Reading →

This past week’s election was truly historic, but for technogeeks and future thinkers there was another equally important vote on Tuesday. The FCC voted 5-0 in favor of developing the conditional unlicensed use of white-space television spectrum. What’s “white space?” On February 17, 2009 American television stations will stop broadcasting in the analog spectrum and Continue Reading →

                   If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. Yesterday’s election helped CNN.com earn a record traffic day. The political web site enjoyed 27 million uniques for 276 million page views yesterday, more than five-times the estimated comScore average of 5 million a day. The FCC approved the acquisition Continue Reading →