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Pay-TV providers Time Warner Cable and Comcast have invested in the software firm BNI Video, which has a product that integrates online search and social networking into a cable or satellite operator’s TV service. Will these new services keep cable customers from “cutting the cord”? Read the full story at reuters.com Continue Reading →

Online Ad Revenue At All-Time High Online advertising revenue in the U.S. reached an all-time high of $6.2 billion in the second quarter, an overall increase of 14 percent. While search ads are still the leading source of revenue for online advertising, digital video ad revenue increased 31 percent. The consumer-packaged goods and pharmaceutical industries Continue Reading →

Twitter Gets Redesigned Twitter has redesigned its website and is now more user-friendly. New features include the ability to embed YouTube videos into posts as well as an overall site redesign, which is expected to give users a “richer and faster experience.” The four-year-old site now boasts 145 million users, with 370,000 new users signing Continue Reading →

Will Disney Go Dark on TWC? The Walt Disney Company and Time Warner Cable have made significant progress regarding their programming fee negotiations. People close to the talks report that online video is the major source of dispute. If an agreement is not made before midnight this Wednesday, ABC local, ESPN and some Disney channels Continue Reading →

June 7, 2010 – Today’s most interesting stories in technology, media and entertainment: Last Chance For Unlimited iPad Data: As AT&T prepares to launch new limited data plans, the company is giving potential iPad customers one last chance to purchase an iPad with an unlimited data plan. You have to do it today. Don’t worry Continue Reading →

The FCC’s latest plan for nation wide broadband will bring 100 megabits per second to approximately 100 million households in the US. The FCC hopes that its plan “will set goals for the U.S. to have the world’s largest market of very high-speed broadband users.” HBO is readying its first move into online video. HBO Continue Reading →

This week Digital Life. What does the Fox/Time Warner Cable deal mean to you? Is there a technological solution to the Christmas bomber terrorist attack? AT&T says plain old telephone service has to go. DirecTV is launching a 3D TV channel. And, why is Ford turning their cars into WiFi hotspots? Plus, are you a Continue Reading →

If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. As Google prepares to unveil its new phone, rumors are circulating that the company may also be preparing a tablet computer. Reports are coming out that Google and HTC have been working on a touch-screen tablet for over a year and Continue Reading →

If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. As it comes down to the wire, News Corp COO Chase Carey announced that he does not believe Fox will get a deal done with Time Warner Cable by midnight tonight. Fox wants the cable company to pay $1 per subscriber, Continue Reading →

If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. After being hit with over a foot of snow over the weekend, Twitter users in Washington D.C. organized a snow ball fight. The crowd-sourced snow ball fight was all in good fun, until an off duty police officer brandished a gun Continue Reading →