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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 →

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 →

The Inter-web is in over-tweet! The citizens of Facebookistan are being phished and spammed. 20-somethings are ditching Facebook and creating LinkedIn profiles so they can join the “real world.” And no one ever speaks of MySpace in polite company. Tweet, tweet, tweet or, should I say, yammer, yammer yammer? There are a few thousand companies Continue Reading →

In our last episode, Debbie's Facebook account had been hijacked. She would receive random notes from her friends telling her that they suspected that her account had been hacked, but everything looked fine. Then, the cybercriminal opened a chat to me from her account typing, "... still stuck in London." Since, at that very moment, Debbie was standing next to me, it was pretty obvious we had a problem. Continue Reading →

If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. MTV’s new social media-television program will share ad rev with Facebook and Twitter. The new show, What You’re Watching With Alexa Cheung, will feature live tweets, as well as Facebook updates. The move, which is obvious for a network with a Continue Reading →

If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. News Corp is firing MySpace CEO and Co-Founder Chris DeWolfe. DeWolfe, who has been with MySpace since its launch in 2003, ran the company when News Corp acquired it for $580 million in 2005. It has been reported that former Facebook Continue Reading →

If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. The FCC began its Notice of Inquiry to create a National Broadband Plan. A plan to roll out a nationwide, broadband grid is part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, which requires the FCC to develop “the most effective and Continue Reading →

If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. A month before its scheduled premier, a work print of X-Men Origins: Wolverine has leaked to the Internet. While Fox claims the leak is a “rough cut without FX, music, and may contain an April Fool’s virus,” many torrent users, who Continue Reading →

  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 →