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If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Apple CEO Steve Jobs had a liver transplant during his medical leave. The article notes that Job received the transplant in April, 4 months after he left Apple, and has taken the last two Continue Reading →

Last week I wrote a short missive about a problem I was having with a very vocal minority of my daily MediaBytes video viewers regarding a pre-roll ad. Apparently, making money with online video is a very hot topic, as evidenced by the several thousand email responses to the article. (You can read last week’s Continue Reading →

If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. Jammie Thomas-Rasset, the mom who was caught file-sharing by the RIAA, has been charged with infringing 24 copyright laws during a retrial. Thomas will be forced to pay the recorded music company’s a total of $1.92 million, roughly $80,000 per song Continue Reading →

If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. Apple released the new iPhone 3GS, as well as the iPhone 3.0 OS, yesterday afternoon. While the new iPhone did not receive the same of pre-sale hype the 3G iPhone garnered a year ago, the bigger deal seems to be the Continue Reading →

If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. The State Department asked Twitter to delay a “critical network upgrade” scheduled for yesterday in order for civilian reporters in Tehran to use the micro-blog as a means for communication. Meanwhile, thousands of Twitter users have changed their time zone stamp Continue Reading →

If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. Universal Music Group is making its entire catalog available for free with subscription to the new UK Virgin Media website. While the world’s biggest recorded music company has been offering songs for free wrapped with DRM on other services like eMusic, Continue Reading →

If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. Google is set to introduce a micro-blog search engine. The company reported on its blog that the users will soon be able to search Twitter and other micro-blog services through a channel similar to its Google blog and Google news search 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 →

If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. Today marks the end of Analog Television. The transition, which should have happened nearly four months ago, will still find an estimated 2.8 million households without access to emergency television signals and broadcast television. Like I’ve said before, this is basically Continue Reading →

If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. Cablevision is set to being offering advertisers same-ad insertion over its cable network. Cablevision noted that soon advertisers will be able to notify the company of a new ad 24 hours prior to broadcast; the new creative will replace a previously Continue Reading →