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If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. Last night the British news wire Sky News announced that Yoko Ono said the Beatles catalog would soon be available on iTunes. Soon after the post appeared on the news company’s site, it was removed. While the news was most certainly Continue Reading →

If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. Computer security company McAfee announced that searches for Jessica Biel led to more cases of spyware, malware and viruses being added to hard drives than searches for any other celebrity. The company noted that 20% of users searching for Jessica Biel Continue Reading →

If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. Global Gaming Factory, the parent company of the Pirate Bay, announced its plans to make the torrent sharing network legit. GGF will add a content management system to the network, giving copyright holders the option of authorizing content for sale, or Continue Reading →

If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. iTunes now owns 25% of the retail music business in the US. While compact disc’s still account for 65% of recorded music sales, 35% of music sales are now exclusively digital. The NPD Group, who conducted the report, noted that sales Continue Reading →

If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. Twitter was the victim of another denial of service attack yesterday. The attack, similar to the one experienced last week, crippled the site for many users, although it did not last for long. Twitter noted that they were “responding to a Continue Reading →

If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. Despite ABC being optimistic that the new version of Who Wants to Be A Millionaire would be a success, the debut of the revival finished fourth place in its opening Sunday night slot. The program, which, for the first time in Continue Reading →

As most of you know, I am not an iPhone lover. I bought my first one right when they came out and, then, immediately brought it back to the genius bar to ask why the speakers didn’t work. My iPhone version 1.0 story is chronicled in two articles from July 2007. The first July 7, Continue Reading →

If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. Yahoo unveiled a redesigned homepage today. The new dashboard centric Yahoo.com combines Yahoo content with third party sites and applications to give users a more engaging experience. Yahoo’s goal is to integrate the most popular web-based sites and services up into 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 →

As most of you know, I am the host of a daily, two-minute show called, MediaBytes with Shelly Palmer. It is not a television show, although it can be seen on TV. It is not a radio show, although it is broadcast on dozens of news/talk radio stations. It is not a video blog, although Continue Reading →