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If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. A report by the Yankee Group believes that smartphone users will have downloaded over 7 billion applications by 2013. The research group estimates that in the next 4 years smartphone users will quadruple, effectively bringing sales of apps to $4.2 billion Continue Reading →

It’s just a typical day, with a typical news cycle. We have a plethora of opinions shrouded as facts, dozens of stories based upon self-serving manipulated statistics and a healthy dose of FUD (fear, uncertainty and doubt) served up by ratings-starved news organizations. The hottest trending topics this week included Joe Wilson’s rude and inexcusable Continue Reading →

If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. Season 3 of AMC’s Mad Men got off to a fantastic start Sunday night.  Viewership was up 33% from last year to 2.8 million, the show’s largest audience ever.  E! also had a big weekend with “Kourtney and Khloe Take Miami.”  Continue Reading →

If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. GM is now selling new cars on eBay. The move comes after the government approved the cash for clunkers program and finds many California based GM dealerships auctioning off brand new cars, including Buick, Chevrolet, Pontiac and GMC trucks. Analysts believe Continue Reading →

If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. Sources say the Pirate Bay’s new owner, Global Gaming Factory, wants to take the company public. Global Gaming Factory CEO Hans Pandeya noted that most of the company’s investors are based in the US, and with the deal expected to close Continue Reading →

If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. The Marine Corps has banned social networking sites including, Twitter, Facebook and MySpace because they create a larger attack and exploitation window, expose unnecessary information to adversaries and provide an easy conduit for information leakage that puts security and personnel at Continue Reading →

If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. New York representative Edolphus Towns announced that he plans to introduce a bill to ban file sharing networks on government computers. The goal is to eliminate peer-to-peer networks, which are easily hackable, from networks and computers connected to the government infrastructure. Continue Reading →

If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. NEWSFLASH: Ben Silverman, the co-chairman of NBC Universal Entertainment, is leaving the company to start up a new venture in partnership with Barry Diller’s media and Internet company, IAC. The news was announced by IAC and Mr. Silverman Monday morning. At Continue Reading →

If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. After receiving good news over a new royalty agreement with the Copyright board, Pandora raised $35 million in funds. While news of investors is scant, Pandora said that VC firm Greylock Partners was a top contributor. The $35 injection will help Continue Reading →

Twitter is the topic de jour. And, as far as I can tell, most people don’t have it quite right. While it is true that Twitter is a social network. And it is also true that Twitter is filled with much more ambient noise than curated knowledge. The power of Twitter is, first and foremost, Continue Reading →