If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. After much debate, President Barack Obama will get to keep his PDA. However, reports are that he won’t be using a BlackBerry, rather a Sectera Edge, “developed for the National Security Agency’s Secure Mobile Environment Portable Electronic Device (SME PED)” Continue Reading →
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It’s official; we’re in a recession. Which is incredibly bad news to get at the opening of the holiday shopping season. Not that anyone needed the National Bureau of Economic Research (the private organization charged with making such determinations) to tell us that times are tough. We all know it too well. No matter what Continue Reading →
If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. The WSJ is reporting that former AOL Chief Executive Jonathan Miller maybe purchasing Yahoo for between $28-30 billion, roughly $22 a share. Yahoo’s stock benefited from the rumor, up 7% to $11.50. While the rumor mill is heating up, it should Continue Reading →
If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. Microsoft is may issue bonds for the first time. Considering Microsoft has a top credit ranking from both the S&P and Moody’s, if Redmond were to issue bonds they would be in high demand. If Microsoft issues bonds, the company would Continue Reading →
If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. YouTube will begin selling search ads. The ads will appear on search result queries, part of its effort to increase ad revenue. Advertisers will be able to bid on specific keywords, in order to find an appropriate location for ads. LG, Continue Reading →
If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. According to a study by the NPD group, Apple’s iPhone has overthrown Motorola’s RAZR as the most popular selling phone during the third quarter. The iPhone claims the top spot, followed by the RAZR, and smart phone offerings from BlackBerry and Continue Reading →
“Television is no gimmick, and nobody will ever be elected to major office again without presenting themselves well on it.” -Television producer and Nixon campaign consultant, Roger Ailes, 1968 When Barack Obama purchased nearly $4 million dollars worth of Primetime to convey a 30-minute message, what was he trying to accomplish? He admitted it was Continue Reading →
If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. Yesterday the Dow Jones closed at 8519, near its five year low. The story did not make the front page of the New York Times nor the evening news. Forget Joe the Plumber, where is Joe the Businessman? Amazon’s 3Q Continue Reading →
If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. Google’s first Android enabled phone, the G1, will go on sale today. Google has also made the code for Android available to developers through an Apache 2.0 license that lets developers add to the codebase. The open-source mobile device, available Continue Reading →
If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. The Dow Jones had another rough day yesterday, closing at 9447. The Dow is down over 800 points in the past two days. Let’s hope that bargain hunters swoop in and start buying. YOUTUBE has added a “click to buy” Continue Reading →