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David Kernell, the 22-year-old son of a democratic Tennessee lawmaker, was convicted on two charges in the hacking of Sarah Palin’s email account. The crime took place while she was campaigning on the republican presidential ticket in 2008. After four days of deliberation, he was found guilty of obstruction of justice, and unauthorized access to Continue Reading →

If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. Google is taking aim at Miriam Webster and Oxford by launching its own dictionary. The move will direct all definition searches to the new Google Dictionary, which will have complete authoritative definitions, sentence examples and links with more detail. Google hopes Continue Reading →

It seems that Twitter, Facebook and even LiveJournal were victims of DoS (denial-of-service) attacks this past week. Actually, DoS attacks are a daily occurrence in the information age. This one got some headlines because Twitter is the site de jour. The technical descriptions of all the hacker tactics that are commonly called DoS attacks lie Continue Reading →

“Hacker Croll,” an eponymously named hacker, was able to get access to some very sensitive business documents from Twitter’s Google Apps account this week. It was a very high profile hack, and quite embarrassing for Twitter. People familiar with the incident say that the hacker was able to easily figure out the security question to Continue Reading →

If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. The Academy Awards announced that they will increase the amount of best picture nominees from five to ten. The move comes in an attempt to boost ratings for the broadcast of the Oscars, as well as to shed light on more Continue Reading →

Hulu, the PR-darling video portal owned by NBCU and News Corp, pulled all of its content from CBS’s newly re-launched TV.com. They also removed their programming from the Boxee application (an open source social media player and content management platform). Everyone seems to think they know why this is a good idea or a bad Continue Reading →

Last weekend I received an email from a friend telling me about a bite-sized, video snack I might like to explore.  He called it a viral documentary.  Instead of just sending me the link, he appended an email he had received with a very detailed description of the issue which included a link to YouTube. Continue Reading →