If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. iTunes now owns 25% of the retail music business in the US. While compact disc’s still account for 65% of recorded music sales, 35% of music sales are now exclusively digital. The NPD Group, who conducted the report, noted that sales Continue Reading →
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If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. Season 3 of AMC’s Mad Men got off to a fantastic start Sunday night. Viewership was up 33% from last year to 2.8 million, the show’s largest audience ever. E! also had a big weekend with “Kourtney and Khloe Take Miami.” 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 →
Over the next few weeks, the FCC is going to ask people to weigh in on a very important topic: The National Broadband Plan. 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 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 →
If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. Redbox, the DVD rental kiosk company, is suing 20th Century Fox for delaying distribution of Fox films for a month after DVD release. Redbox President Mitch Lowe claims the studio is “attempting to prohibit timely consumer access to its new release Continue Reading →
If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. Twitter was the victim of another denial of service attack yesterday. The attack, similar to the one experienced last week, crippled the site for many users, although it did not last for long. Twitter noted that they were “responding to a Continue Reading →
If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. Despite ABC being optimistic that the new version of Who Wants to Be A Millionaire would be a success, the debut of the revival finished fourth place in its opening Sunday night slot. The program, which, for the first time in Continue Reading →
If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. GM is now selling new cars on eBay. The move comes after the government approved the cash for clunkers program and finds many California based GM dealerships auctioning off brand new cars, including Buick, Chevrolet, Pontiac and GMC trucks. Analysts believe 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 →