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If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. A new case involving texting on company phones is set to hit the Supreme Court. The case, which involves police officers in Ontario, California exceeding their allotted text messages on the phones issued by the department, could have major ramifications for Continue Reading →

In an open letter to his 350 million users, Facebook founder, Mark Zuckerberg laid out his plans to revise and “improve” Facebook’s privacy options: “The plan we’ve come up with is to remove regional networks completely and create a simpler model for privacy control where you can set content to be available to only your Continue Reading →

If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. Facebook’s new privacy controls mean that publishing for Everyone is now the default setting. Users who do not customize their settings will therefore be sharing any updates, links or pictures publicly with any one on the network. However, the new privacy Continue Reading →

This week on Digital Life: Sexting is on the rise. Facebook is getting more private. Crashing Tiger, Hidden Demons. And, Consumer Reports says Verizon is the best wireless network. Plus, do digital things go better with Coke? I’ll talk with Michael Donnelly, the group director, worldwide interactive marketing for the Coca-Cola Company.  I’ll discuss the 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 →

Tiger is having a tough week. You know the whole story. At least you think you do. You’ve heard the damning voicemail, you’ve seen the remarkable sext messages, you’ve seen the nude photos of his wife (both the photo-shopped and real ones), you’ve seen the extraordinary photo-shopped pictures of a severely beaten Tiger standing next Continue Reading →

If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. Facebook is getting rid of regional networks in order to improve privacy controls. The decision will give users the ability to control every aspect of their profile, including limiting who can see specific links, photos and shares. Users seem to be Continue Reading →

If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. Toys “R” Us is giving customers the opportunity to preview its Holiday sales online Rather than publish its Black Friday deals in newspapers, the popular toy store is previewing its sales event on Facebook. The sales preview is not only a Continue Reading →

If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. The new ShopSavvy app for the iPhone allows shoppers to photograph bar codes and identify them. ShopSavvy not only identifies the item, but provides information on the product, while locating other retailers and prices. The app could save you a lot Continue Reading →

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 →