This week on Digital Life I did a segment about Email Signature Etiquette. It generated a bit of buzz, so I thought I’d share it with you. Almost every email program lets you automatically add a signature to the emails you send. I’m sure you seen all kinds of interesting ones: flowery ones, very dense Continue Reading →
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If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. Microsoft may ban as many as one million XBox Live users for modifying their consoles or playing illegal games. The company believes that between 600,000 and a million users have played pirated games on their system, or modified their Xbox console Continue Reading →
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 →
The Paley Center for Media billed it as, “The Great Digital Debate: Free vs. Paid Content Online” a luncheon conversation sponsored by KPMG in the very nice boardroom at the Paley Center. The key debaters were Steven Brill, Cofounder, Journalism Online and Vivian Schiller, CEO of NPR. Free food and a bunch of smart people Continue Reading →
If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. Microsoft has revealed its new line of smart phones it hopes will compete with RIM’s BlackBerry and Apple’s iPhone. The new line of HTC handsets on AT&T, Verizon and Sprint will feature touch-screen pads, as well as access Microsoft’s patented Office Continue Reading →
If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. Condé Nast announced that it will close four magazine publications. The publishing giant will shutter Gourmet, first published in 1941, along with Cookie, Mondern Bride and Elegant Bride. Condé, which has relied on luxury brands to advertise in its magazines, has Continue Reading →
About a year ago I decided that it was time to try out the triple play from my cable company in Connecticut. Charter Communications was offering video, voice and data at an extremely attractive rate. At the time I was paying Verizon about $100 per month for my telephone service. I was paying Charter about Continue Reading →
If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Twitter is close to raising $100 million at a billion dollar valuation. The $100 million round is a significant increase over the $50 million the micro-blogging service planned to raise in its last round. Continue Reading →
If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. The Wall Street Journal clarified reports that it will charge for mobile content, noting that content delivered on smartphone applications will be a mix of free and paid material. Despite CEO Rupert Murdoch saying every iPhone and BlackBerry user would have Continue Reading →
If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. Rupert Murdoch told a Goldman Sachs Communacopia Conference that iPhone & BlackBerry users will be charged for the Wall Street Journal. Even if you already have a subscription to the Journal, users will have to pay $1 a week for access Continue Reading →