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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. Verizon is set to bring two Google Android based smartphones to the market. The deal was revealed when Google CEO Eric Schmidt and Verizon Wireless CEO Lowell McAdam unveiled a new Motorola phone bundled with Android. The “Sholes,” the phones code-name, 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 →

Gamar Chatimah Tovah. MediaBytes will return as scheduled tomorrow morning. Time Warner is reportedly ready to begin looking into selling its magazine business. Shareholder Gordon Crawford noted that TW is “going to sell their print division, they are going to spin off AOL and they’re just going to be Warner Brothers, HBO and the Turner 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. After a lengthy legal battle, an arbitrator has ruled that Jeremy Piven did not breach his contract when he left the Broadway production of Speed the Plow. The controversial case came to after Piven abruptly left the production, claiming he had Continue Reading →

Last week I asked a simple question, What is broadband? The technical definition is easy, however defining broadband in terms of public policy is anything but. As you know, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 directed the FCC to submit a National Broadband Plan to Congress by February 17, 2010 that addresses broadband deployment, adoption, affordability, and the use of broadband to advance solutions to national priorities, including health care, education, energy, public safety, job creation, investment, and others. So, in the spirit of getting a Socratic dialog going, I am asking you to think about what the United States needs to do to be a digital super-power in the 21st century. Continue Reading →

If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. Verizon Wireless has begun testing its 4G network in Boston and Seattle. The tests will be Verizon’s first off the spectrum it purchased from the FCC. Verizon is scheduled to begin rolling out the technology to consumers next year. News Corp. Continue Reading →

If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. NBCU, Time Warner, News Corp, Viacom, CBS, Disney and Discovery Communications are teaming to create a rival to the Nielsen metric system. The media conglomerate is also working with major advertisers like AT&T and Proctor & Gamble, as well as ad Continue Reading →

As most of you know, I am not an iPhone lover. I bought my first one right when they came out and, then, immediately brought it back to the genius bar to ask why the speakers didn’t work. My iPhone version 1.0 story is chronicled in two articles from July 2007. The first July 7, Continue Reading →