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If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. For the first time in its existence, web domain names will be able to be written in languages besides English. Peter Dengate, chairman of ICANN, the group who presides over domain names, believes it “is the biggest change technically to the Continue Reading →

If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. Lawyers are warning employers against friending employees on social networks. The National Law Journal wrote that friending or following employees on Facebook or Twitter could “trigger or exacerbate a host of legal claims, including harassment, discrimination or wrongful termination.” While employers Continue Reading →

If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. Not to be outdone by Barnes & Noble, Amazon is set to release “Kindle for PC.” The new program will let anyone with a Windows-based computer buy, download and read Kindle books on their machine, even if you don’t own a Continue Reading →

If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. Microsoft announced that it will now include information from Twitter and Facebook in its Bing search results. The announcement was the first of its kind, and positioned Microsoft ahead of Google in one category of search technology, but only for a Continue Reading →

If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. On Monday I reported that authorities alleged that Richard Henne, the man who said his kid was in the balloon, had called a tv station before he called 911.  I asked why the tv station didn’t confirm the situation before covering Continue Reading →

If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. Depending who you ask, Barnes & Noble’s new eReader is due out today, or Thursday, which would be interesting since it’s Windows 7 day. B&N leaked a picture to the Wall Street Journal of the eReader that features an eInk display Continue Reading →

If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. After days of outrageous coverage, a Colorado Sheriff is now saying that the Balloon Boy hoax was “publicity stunt” to generate buzz for a reality show. Richard Henne, the controversial father behind the weather balloon stunt, reportedly had been planning the Continue Reading →

If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. Google is set to launch a digital book store to rival Amazon and Barnes and Noble. Google’s online store will open up next year with approximately 500,000 for sale. Google will split revenue with publishers, giving the publishers 63% when selling Continue Reading →

If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. Twitter is increasing its global appeal by partnering with Indian wireless communications company Bharti Airtel on an SMS deal. The partnership will allow Bharti Airtel’s 110 million wireless users to send free text messages to Twitter. While texting Twitter won’t be Continue Reading →

If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. Twitter is helping users with Spam problems by allowing them to report suspected spam accounts. Users have been vocal in their annoyance of spam followers and the lack of protection from spam accounts by Twitter’s security network. As the micro-blogging service Continue Reading →